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Put a .5" x .5" cardboard square on a wooden post. Grab a pushpin. Start counting paces away from the post. Stop when you're about four city blocks away. St
by thaumaturgy 12y ago
Put a .5" x .5" cardboard square on a wooden post.
Grab a pushpin.
Start counting paces away from the post.
Stop when you're about four city blocks away.
Start running full speed towards the post.
Hurl the pin at the post as hard as you can when you're three city blocks away.
Pin glances off of one corner of the cardboard square.
Crowd yells, "epic fail!"
- ctdonath 12y agoIn contrast, from the HN-featured article about finding the Beagle2 probe on Mars: MRO's data confirms that Beagle landed just 5km from the centre of its targeted touchdown zone. 5km, and it was considered a bulls-eye accurate landing.
- taeric 12y agoAt the relative ranges we are talking about here, those numbers are probably more comparable than many would realize. Consider, Mars at its closest, is over 6700km away. The space station at its furthest is 418km. (Assuming I looked up the correct numbers, of course.)
- Gravityloss 12y agoBeagle 2 had a very different weight budget.