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NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover

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[–] AmIConcious 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Except that radio communications below water don't propagate very well.

[–] Metans 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Well, just used a wired connection then

[–] Jimmyeatsausage 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

"Leave a little slack in the line to account for the different orbital periods. Yeah, about 300,000,000 miles ahould do it..."

[–] Batman 8 points 5 months ago

I had a really long Lan cable that let us play in different rooms. It's buried in a closet, but if nasa really needs it I could dig that out