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Is it just me or has NASA really been on point with capitalizing on the PR opportunity surrounding The Martian? - Numerous Reddit frontpage posts/AMA's - Grea
by shostack 11y ago
Is it just me or has NASA really been on point with capitalizing on the PR opportunity surrounding The Martian?
- Numerous Reddit frontpage posts/AMA's
- Great buzz around discoveries
- This plan
Not knocking them--NASA needs all the love they can get. I've just become very aware of a much larger NASA presence in my news sources than I'm used to.
- pp19dd 11y agoNah. For me it was this 70 MB photo of Pluto that convinced me that they're not hyping anything, but delivering actual results: http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/crop_p_color2_enhanced_release.png http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/cro... Think I spent half a day staring at that photo, just zooming and panning and wishing I had a bigger screen. Anyhow, they bring up this data bandwidth issue front and center in the PDF. More to my point (if I had one), the probe was launched in 2006 and took 9 years to get there. The 70 MB photo was taken half a year ago and just now managed to get transmitted (surely they had other things queued up and so forth.) I don't think that I've done anything for 9 years, and I would never wait half a year for a page to load, so NASA's convinced me that they can do longevity.