Pathfinders to Mars - ABC (UK) - December 11, 1960 - January 15, 1961
Science Fiction (6 episodes)
Running Time: 30 minutes
Stars:
Gerald Flood as Conway Henderson
George Coulouris as Harcourt Brown (credited as 'The Imposter' in The Imposter)
Stewart Guidotti as Geoffrey Wedgwood
Pamela Barney as Professor Mary Meadows
Hester Cameron as Margret Henderson
Hugh Evans as Ian Murray
Astor Sklair as John Field
Bernard Horsfall as Professor Hawkins
Peter Williams as Professor Norman Wedgwood
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"The Carl Sagan Memorial Station, previously known as the Mars Pathfinder Lander, proved that a high degree of knowledge and innovation, coupled with a bit of luck, could put a very-low cost spacecraft on the surface of Mars. Depicted here by an aritist, the lander and rover surpassed their initial design life and went on to return many high resolution images of the ancient flood-washed plain of Ares Valles.
This art work was produced for NASA by Pat Rawlings, (SAIC). Technical concepts for NASA's Exploration Office, Johnson Space Center (JSC)."
Date: 1997
NASA ID: S99-04196
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The Mars Pathfinder lands. Presidential design awards 2000. 2000.
Internet Archive
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Mars Pathfinder Lander: First image ever taken from the surface of Mars of an overcast sky (August 6, 1997)
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Happy (landing day) birthday Sojourner and Pathfinder!! :D
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Useless rpgs recs. Rpgs with romance... but I actually tell you my opinion on the romance. PART 4/6
️🌈 = you can romance a same sex character
Enderal️🌈: You can romance two characters (Jespar or Calia), and there are scenes where you can meet with them with some flirty options, flirty options also during the quests where they are your companions. Personal quest (one for each) turns into romantic content if you locked in the romance. Then there is a scene where you openly talk about your feelings, plus the ending scene and an extra ending scene based on your choices. Amount of content: 4/5
Pathfinder: Kingmaker️🌈: For this game I romanced Octavia, Regongar, both of them at once, Kanerah and Tristian. The game has multiple romances, there is flirting options in dialogues (triggered by quests or back at castle). There is a romantic scene that confirm you locking in the romance, and after that you will get multiple extra romance dialogue scenes while camping. The ending quest has romantic elements for your romance option, plus you can marry your romance (or romances if you romance the polyamorous ones. Amount of content: 4.5/5
Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous️🌈: As the previous game, the romance is mainly a series of flirting encounter, a personal quest turned more romance, a romance specific mini quest, extra dialogue, and the ending. A lot of good content! Amount of romance: 4.5/5
The Technomancer️🌈: There are multiple options. Flirting dialogues, then a more flirty/romance dialogue at one point in the game. I have to be honest I do not remember if the ending had a lot of romance, but there is a romance cut scene. Amount of content: 3/5
Greedfall️🌈: even the romance did not make me finish the game, so I can say little.
Spellforce 3: Soul Harvest️🌈: You could say the romances are the rpg part of this game. You can romance Yria (not confirmed yet, but she is bisexual in the game) or Kaiawu with both genders, Raith as a female General, and have a flirt with Katras. The romance takes place over multiple dialogues, the companions in general also have personal quests and doubts/problems that they bring to you. Also the game can be played indipendently from Spellforce 3. All companions are also voiced. Amount of content: 3/5
Pillars of Eternity: Deadfire️🌈: I only romanced Tekehu and Aloth here. I have to say that Aloth had minimal romance (I would say 2/5), but Tekehu was better. In general the romance seems to happen over multiple dialogues, flirty options and comments (for Tekehu not Aloth). Amount of content: 3/5
Mars: Not played yet
Hordes of the Underdark: I have played this so long ago... Valen Shadowbreath (male tiefling) for female characters or Aribeth (female half-elf) for male characters. Romance happens through dialogue, and if I remember it correctly and there is some romance content in the final quest too. Amount of content: 2/5
previous parts: PART 1 - PART 2 - PART 3 - full list - full list of same sex romances with gender/names
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Round 2B
Mars Pathfinder: Before the dark, there was light. The Mars Pathfinder was part of a NASA mission to explore the surface of Mars, and it successfully landed on the planet on July 4, 1997– really, you can’t make that date up. The mission's primary goal was to study the geology, climate, and atmosphere of Mars and to demonstrate the feasibility of low-cost lander and rover missions. The lander, named Sojourner, deployed the first-ever successful Mars rover, which conducted experiments, took photographs, and transmitted valuable data back to Earth. The mission's achievements paved the way for further advancements, and the images and data provided valuable insights into the Martian environment; this massively impacted our understanding of the planet and laid a foundation for subsequent Mars missions, such as the beloved and oft-personified Mars rovers Spirit, Opportunity, and Curiosity.
Radiohead's OK Computer: I go forwards, you go backwards, and somewhere we will meet. By the middle of the decade, Radiohead was weary of the ubiquity of their 1993 hit Creep; although the record that followed it (The Bends) was a lusher, more evolved album than their first, it had failed to produce a distinctive enough sound and image for the band to undo what Creep had done. The song threatened to define the band entirely to those outside their devoted following. In 1997 the band swung for the fences with the haunting, abstract OK Computer. It was a move their label cast immense doubt on at the time, and its success then and now would cement Thom Yorke and his bandmates as soothsayers of a sort, draped not in bohemian silk robes but in white hospital sheets. It's an album that speaks to the future with dread more than wonder, that critics described as "nervous almost to the point of neurosis," but marries the uneasy experimental soundscapes with poetic, surrealist, and increasingly prophetic songwriting regarding the parallel lives we lead with technology. Featuring the singles Karma Police, Paranoid Android and No Surprises, OK Computer is hailed by many as the band's masterpiece, and is often cited by music publications as one of the greatest albums of the decade: it's certified double Platinum in the US and five-times Platinum in the UK, and in 2014 it was included in the United States National Recording Registry as "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."
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ADDA (pathfinder kingmaker) // ADEMARTA (p:wotr)
YELENA (fallout 3) // PRIYA (ofna)
MINA (when twilight strikes) // PETRA (the sandman)
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Meet the Contestants: Sojourner Rover
The Sojourner rover, imaged by the Pathfinder lander. [NASA/JPL-Caltech]
The Sojourner rover was a part of the Mars Pathfinder mission and the first successful Mars rover. It was named for Sojourner Truth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sojourner_Truth, after a naming competition asking for submissions of heroines to name the rover after.
Sojourner was deployed from the Pathfinder lander after landing for a planned mission of 7 sols. It ended up being active 83 sols, when signal was lost. Sojourner was only 11.5 kg (~25 lbs), but had two black and white and one colour camera, as well as the Alpha Particle X-ray Spectrometer, a version of which is still used on the Curiosity rover today.
You can read more about Sojourner and Mars Pathfinder at the mission website.
Tune in for round 2 of the Mars Mission Tournament when Sojourner goes up against the Mars Global Surveyor.
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Sojourner on Mars
So, back in 1997, NASA's Sojourner rover was programmed to circle its lander indefinitely if it ever lost contact with the Base Station. We know that the Pathfinder lander lost its batteries and died after about 90 sols, but Sojourner had not shown any indications of failure up to that point.
I know it's extremely unlikely, but there is a very tiny chance that Sojourner is still waking up every morning, looking for a signal from Sagan Memorial Station, and failing to get one, is continuing its endless circle, like a good rover should.
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To be fair, a lot of goofy-sounding rocketry/aerospace terminology has a legitimate nomenclatural role beyond just being silly euphemisms.
"Unplanned rapid disassembly", for example, exists as the necessary counterpart to planned rapid disassembly: sometimes a rocket is legitimately supposed to fall apart or blow up, so you need a specific term to emphasise that it wasn't supposed to do that.
Similarly, "lithobraking" was coined by analogy with aerobraking (shedding velocity via atmospheric friction) and hydrobraking (shedding velocity by landing in water), and it does have some intentional applications; the Mars Pathfinder probe, for example, was deliberately crashed into the Martian surface while surrounded by giant airbags, and reportedly bounced at least 15 times before coming to rest.
(That said, aerospace engineers absolutely do use these terms humorously as well, because engineers are just Like That.)
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Pictures of Mars and its rovers
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