Hi folks, my name is Kevin Veale. I'm a Senior Lecturer in Media Studies and fiction author.

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I'm into a wide variety of popular culture stuff in lots of different media forms, some of which I write about academically. I reshare stuff that amuses me, post random thoughts or resources, and generally hang out.


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lupi
@lupi asked:

its fucked up that there's a lil tiny helicopter on mars and that its flown like, 60 flights out of an expected 5, and lasted 2 1/2 years out of an expected "couple weeks"

this isn't a question yet

did you know they put a lil scrap of canvas from the original Wright Flyer on it so it could get first flight (undisputed) on Mars as well as first flight (disputed) on earth?

I didn't know that yeah

also now I'm thinking about marscopters in general



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in reply to @lupi's post:

A couple weeks ago I happened to be at a talk by an ex-JPL-bigwig and he was all “yeah they didn’t even want to send the Marscopter to Mars, it was such a toy, nobody believed in it, and now it looks like the future of Mars exploration and it’s probably going to be an integral part of sample return”