SCIENCE CLOWNS: NASA announces helicopter for Mars
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There are days where the fake science news is so hilarious that I just have to share it with you.
I was monitoring news headlines today, came across a story published by UPI, which is a big global news organization, kind of like AP or Reuters.
And in this UPI story, they were describing a new helicopter That NASA is going to put onto its Mars rover so that it can fly this helicopter around Mars.
And, in fact, they described this as a dual-rotor helicopter, and they said that the person in charge of this program is a NASA administrator named Bridenstine.
And I remember that name because, hilariously, it reminds me of the movie The Bride of Frankenstein.
So, maybe this guy's name is Frank Bridenstine?
Or Bride Frankenstein?
Either way.
But that's the reason I remember that name.
It just got me laughing.
In any case, they want to fly this helicopter on Mars.
Now...
I want you to put your thinking caps on here for a minute because...
You may recall that, according to NASA, Mars has no atmosphere, or very little.
Technically, the average atmospheric pressure on Mars is about 600 pascals, compared to a little over 100,000 pascals at sea level on Earth.
In other words, Mars' atmosphere is about 0.6% of Earth's atmosphere at ground level or sea level.
Now, why does this matter?
Well, because of course, maybe those of you listening, some of you are aeronautical engineers or pilots, and you know that propellers don't work in outer space because there's nothing to push against.
You have to have air density in order for propellers or rotors to function on helicopters or airplanes, or wings for that matter.
I mean, a helicopter rotor is a spinning wing, right?
It's got that wing shape and the wing has to have air in order to function.
This is why there are no propeller helicopters in outer space, which you would think that NASA would know this.
So just to review here, NASA is going to try to fly helicopters on Mars, a planet with virtually no atmosphere.
And yet, Mars still has a pretty serious gravity, almost 40% of the gravity of Earth, but only 0.6% the atmosphere of Earth, and there's no way that this helicopter is going to fly on Mars.
So there are several possibilities here that are really important to discuss.
Possibility number one, NASA engineers are so stupid They actually think they can fly helicopters on Mars.
Okay?
I don't know if the stupidity has gone that far to the point where NASA now thinks that you can fly helicopters.
Maybe next they'll have flying rainbow unicorn-powered helicopters on Mars, or maybe they'll just send flying unicorns.
To the planet.
They will use rainbows as their propulsion system coming out of their ass.
Maybe the whole LGBT thing has taken hold of NASA now and they've lowered the bar of who they should hire.
Maybe they're just hiring people for being transgenders now and they've lowered the bar for minorities or whatever.
This is happening all across academia at this point.
So maybe that's happened at NASA where they no longer have any engineers that know anything about engineering.
Because I'm not even, you know, an aerospace engineer, and even I know how wings work.
I know how helicopters produce thrust.
This is not a great mystery.
This technology has been around over 100 years on our planet, and we see these flying craft all over the place every single day, plus I'm a pilot, or at least I'm trained as a pilot.
I don't fly around that much anymore.
But If you're trained as a pilot, you're trained in the vectors of thrust of how airplanes work.
You know, a typical airplane, let's take a Cessna, which is what I trained in.
You've got wings that provide the lift, and then you've got a propeller, which is essentially spinning wings, you might say, that provide the forward thrust.
And the forward thrust causes the air to move over the wings, which have a unique shape.
That causes lower pressure on the upper side of the wings, kind of sucking the wings up, you might say, which provides the lift that overcomes the gravity, which is pulling down on the airplane.
And then you also have drag, which is the resistance of the plane moving forward through the air.
So the drag creates essentially negative forward thrusts, which is overcome by the A propeller that propels the plane forward through the air and so on.
I mean, these are basic laws of, you know, aerodynamics.
In any case, this is basic knowledge here on Earth.
But NASA thinks they're going to build a space helicopter.
And boy, are they going to be disappointed when they try to fly it.
All right, so anyway, possibility number one is that NASA has become so stupid that they don't even understand the fact that Mars has no atmosphere.
Okay, all right.
Possibility number two, Mars does have an atmosphere and they've been lying to us the whole time.
So this possibility, there's some chance that this is true too.
I think that NASA has been lying to us for years about life on Mars.
Recently, we did a story about there might even be mushrooms growing on Mars.
There are people who are convinced that there are seasonal growths of plant matter as maybe forests on Mars right now.
I've seen people have that analysis.
Some people are convinced that there's seasonal water running on Mars and flowing on Mars.
And there seems to be some photographic evidence to support that.
And many people believe that Mars does have an atmosphere that's far greater than what we're being told.
So that's the second possibility.
And if NASA is going to send a helicopter to fly on Mars, it would seem to confirm this idea that Mars obviously must have an atmosphere.
Otherwise, how does NASA think they're going to fly a helicopter?
On the red planet with rotors, right?
You have to have an atmosphere to accomplish that task.
Okay, third possibility.
The whole thing is fake news.
UPI has fallen for some hoax.
Some, I don't know, April Fool's Day type of thing.
A bunch of engineers at NASA are sending out the most hilarious hoax press releases that they can think of.
Wondering how stupid are the scientists in the media or the science-based journalists in the media, how stupid are they that they would write a story on anything that they get faxed or emailed by NASA scientists?
So NASA scientists are sitting around drunk on a Friday night and like, hey, how about we just, let's just send out emails to Reuters and UPI and the New York Times.
Let's just tell them we're building space helicopters.
And let's see who publishes the story.
And sure enough, to get the story published...
So, maybe there are other possibilities here, but I think those are the three main possibilities.
Number one, NASA is run by incompetent morons who don't understand engineering.
Number two, the atmosphere on Mars is actually thicker than what they've been telling us, which means there's a massive cover-up, and there probably is life on Mars.
Or number three, a bunch of drunk NASA scientists are sending out the most absurd garbage news stories they can think of, and the so-called journalists in the mainstream media are publishing those stories as if they were fact.
So you tell me, which version, which one of these three options do you think is the truth?
Is there really a NASA administrator named Bridenstine?
Because that's what UPI reported.
Are there really going to be helicopters on Mars where there's virtually no atmosphere?
Because that's what UPI reported.
And is NASA really working on some new technology?
Maybe they'll have...
Propeller spacecraft now that will traverse the entire universe using, I don't know, technology from the 1920s.
What are they going to do?
Put a giant propeller on the front of the space shuttle now and launch it that way?
And when it gets to outer space, they'll just turn up the propeller so it can go to Mars.
Now, you can fly to Mars with a propeller.
Or maybe you should just wear a beanie with a propeller on your head.
And that would qualify you now as a journalist.
That seems to be the case.
Bizarre stuff, folks.
Totally insane.
But this is what I want to bring your attention to at the moment.
Keep reading my website, Newstarget.com, and we also publish Space.News, which covers space exploration and technology.
We might even cover this story on Space.News.
In any case, if you see a UFO with a propeller on it, NASA built it.
Because that's their new breakthrough technology is propellers.
Amazing stuff.
Have fun with this one.
Thanks for listening.
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