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   Hi August,   
      
   On 2021-02-21 09:04:00, you wrote to me:   
      
    AA>>> I watched a recorded copy of one with a young well-spoken lady   
    AA>>> introducing different engineers and asking good questions.   
      
    WvV>> That probably was before the landing fase?   
      
    AA> She covered the whole thing.  During the most of the "7 minutes"   
    AA> part, one of the NASA engineers (the one with a dot on her   
    AA> forehead) provided the real-time commentary, but she was always   
    AA> behind on the numbers we saw on the screen.   
      
   I saw that.   
      
    WvV>> I was annoyed by that too. Because that was the only way   
    WvV>> to track the progress of the landing. But they switched   
    WvV>> around to views of the people, which was totally boring...   
      
    AA> I would have thought that they would have had a producer that   
    AA> understood those things and would maintain the gauges on the   
    AA> screen all the time.  It could have been not unlike what they do   
    AA> on sports shows and elections with the numbers updating on the   
    AA> screen all the time.   
      
   I think they want to cater for a wider audience, but don't realize most of   
   their viewers are more of the nerd kind, that don't care to much of the people   
   in the control room and just want to see the figures...   
      
    AA>>> The 7 minutes of terror didn't seem so terrifying without that.   
      
    WvV>> Indeed.   
      
    AA> Too bad they designed the jetpack to be discarded. Why couldn't   
    AA> it be designed to land safely (farther away from the rover,   
    AA> ofcourse) and then have wheels that could unfold. Then it could   
    AA> be another device that could have cameras on it.   
      
   Weight. It costs a lot to put kilograms into space. If they put wheels (and   
   other stuff) on the crane, it would weigh more, and also needs more fuel for   
   the rockets. And it did have a camera! It took a video of the whole landing   
   procedure that will be published later (probably because it is still being   
   transmitted to earth).   
      
    AA> Their common practice to discard spent equipment like that on   
    AA> foreign soil makes me feel not so bad having my fields littered   
    AA> with old cars and tires.  :D   
      
   )   
      
   Bye, Wilfred.   
      
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