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Is there a web version of this? It's too bad if all this great information is hidden away in a PDF, which few will bother to open (even on HN, and fewer in the

Is there a web version of this? It's too bad if all this great information is hidden away in a PDF, which few will bother to open (even on HN, and fewer in the general public) and which I'll probably be unable to find in the future. I found the following website, but my initial impression is that it's lacks a lot of the great material in the PDF: http://www.nasa.gov/topics/journeytomars/index.html http://www.nasa.gov/topics/journeytomars/index.html

mpweiher 11y ago
Why? I click on the link and it opens in the browser like any other content. Except that it's easier to download.
- hackuser 11y ago
  > I click on the link and it opens in the browser like any other content That's one thing I'm not doing. IME Firefox's PDF rendering is worse than external applications; it has trouble rendering many more files and the rendering is much harder to read.
wiz21 11y ago
>> which I'll probably be unable to find in the future Could you elaborate on this ?
- hackuser 11y ago
  An untitled URL (i.e., just a filename) is not easily found in my browser history and searches tend to find web pages, which is what most people read and link to. I just did a quick search to find a NASA webpage with a link to this document, and it didn't appear among the top results AFAICT. I didn't spend much time on it, but that's part of my point: It's not easy to find.
  - ItsDeathball 11y ago
    If you search for "journey to mars pdf" it's the top result, with a breakout box and summary. Not sure how much easier that can be.
stevecalifornia 11y ago
Im always surprised by what people take issue with.
pp19dd 11y ago
To answer your question, I found this credited in a regurgitated PR from some lazy news aggregator. Their site was 800 words that said next to nothing, crediting the rich PDF. The referenced document offered so much more than the site that I got mesmerized by it, and hence the link. Think they had some very talented (albeit print) designers work on this, so no other forms. I mean look at the last page. It's amazing. It's an astronaut footprint transitioning from moonscape to red regolith. It's ... really good.

mpweiher 11y ago

Why? I click on the link and it opens in the browser like any other content. Except that it's easier to download.

hackuser 11y ago
> I click on the link and it opens in the browser like any other content That's one thing I'm not doing. IME Firefox's PDF rendering is worse than external applications; it has trouble rendering many more files and the rendering is much harder to read.

wiz21 11y ago

>> which I'll probably be unable to find in the future Could you elaborate on this ?

hackuser 11y ago
An untitled URL (i.e., just a filename) is not easily found in my browser history and searches tend to find web pages, which is what most people read and link to. I just did a quick search to find a NASA webpage with a link to this document, and it didn't appear among the top results AFAICT. I didn't spend much time on it, but that's part of my point: It's not easy to find.
- ItsDeathball 11y ago
  If you search for "journey to mars pdf" it's the top result, with a breakout box and summary. Not sure how much easier that can be.

stevecalifornia 11y ago

Im always surprised by what people take issue with.

pp19dd 11y ago

To answer your question, I found this credited in a regurgitated PR from some lazy news aggregator. Their site was 800 words that said next to nothing, crediting the rich PDF. The referenced document offered so much more than the site that I got mesmerized by it, and hence the link. Think they had some very talented (albeit print) designers work on this, so no other forms. I mean look at the last page. It's amazing. It's an astronaut footprint transitioning from moonscape to red regolith. It's ... really good.