Rachel Maddow reports on Mars missions by China, the United Arab Emirates, and the United States, that all took advantage of the same timing window to launch rockets this summer and are now similarly reaching their destination at roughly the same time, with the U.S. set to initiate an ambitious rover operation on Thursday. Aired on 02/18/2021.
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'Traffic Jam' As Three Nations' Mars Missions Arrive At The Red Planet | Rachel Maddow | MSNBC
today is the day …
that will be a big WOW (AGAIN) or big BOOM (HOPE NOT) good luck Persy
Hope they check on Curiosity.
I love the glee with which Maddow tells all of this!
I feel like we haven’t had a Moment of Geek in a while, too. Great to see it return.
She didn’t have to say covid or trump
What a Day! can’t wait, i am 52years old feeling like a little kid again…yay!
I’m 32 but realize I’m just really starting to really grow up because of how this makes me feel the exact same way as you! I haven’t been this excited for years & I am thankful for this to happen …I hope all goes well!
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I’d like to buy this geek a drink if she ever comes back to North Beach.
It’s good to see more news like this rather than all the bad s***** going on.👍
Let’s hope they don’t find covid on Mars😒
If only they would use all that money to solve the earth’s problems instead of spending it on a useless unpopulated planet.
@Big AL naw the problems ain’t goin anywhere. Humans create as many problems as they solve. Someone has to look to the future and the stars because eventually we’ll be heading there
The more the merrier. James Webb Space Telescope , that’s the one I’m waiting for ,..Oct. 31 this year.
That’s going to be a game-changer!
is that the official date? I have a healthy skepticism about the date but I can’t F’n wait for that… Say what you want about state of current events but it truly is a beautiful time for sciences & space exploration….And I’m beyond thankful for being able to witness this!
@thedirty530 Fingers x’d . Started in 96 . 25 years ago . Unbelievable huh? My only fear is they get it out there and it needs a contact lens like Hubble. I will literally have a meltdown like in 2018 lol.
@Mark Keogh Absolutely! I’m ramped for this . So many don’t know and don’t care about this . I don’t understand that.
I am going to be up all night and well into the morning (in Malaysia) for this epic event!
She says we’re going to Mars to see if there is any alien life. Technically we are the aliens.
Or maybe “aliens” is just a human concept
@Lotus Sana how did you go from this to discussion of power????
its colonizer mentality 😉
@Xavier Lucky Woooosh, oh there it goes, it just flew past your head again. Wooooosh, there it goes again.
@World Really? You are going to tell me that somewhere on this planet there is no fossilized human from thousands or millions of years ago? May be not all of us are, but plenty of people are somewhere.
Mars is the only planet in our system populated entirely by robots.
As far as we know
That’s very presumptuous of you.
That’s what the White Mice have led you to believe.
too early to say so, marsians might still be living underneath the surface.
@Jerry Yin We need to arm ourselves against the Martian Underground!
Wow! Rachel Maddow had a story that didn’t have “You Know Who” in it! How refreshing.
I’m sure she’s just as refreshed that she didn’t have to talk about him. He’s powerless and is finally on his way to being irrelevant.
Well.. It is an orangey red planet..
It’s amazing what we, as humans, can achieve when we are not fighting about politics, believes, and religion.
Right when we get the chance to answer some the the most fundamental questions in human history…Oh Lord of science, please unite thee!
@thedirty530 so Bill Nye? Mike Tyson? Alexander Graham Belle or Ook Ook the inventor of the wheel? Which scientist ascended to being the god of science? 🤓😁
Just gives us time, before you know it governments will be fighting about who owns Mars or parts of Mars. I never forget a scene from the movie Terminator, in which young Conor asks the Terminator (Arnold), “we are not going to make, are we?’ To which the Terminator replies, “it’s in your nature to destroy yourselves!” Sometimes Hollywood gets it right and either movies reflect the truth of our society or predict the future.
How small our differences become when we leave this planet and explore the universe.
usa goes to mars but cannot get the electricity grid together for texas…
It’s an entire planet and they call it a traffic jam… lol
So, we’re gonna get to see some rover battles, right?
I mean, that is why we’re doing this, right?
Grant Imahara would be so proud..
Oh the Terran wars it would cause to shoot some other nation’s drone on Mars! XD
Yeah rather than fixing the planet we live on let’s see if it’s possible to live on another and destroy that one instead!
Love that there are enough science dorks in the world we have a ‘traffic jam’ on the road to Mars.
she missed the opportunity of saying ‘Space Jam’
Just be careful and look out for those Space Lasers! 😜