"Sometimes It is good to think inside the Box" - TI


TI: a Trapped Insect

FYI

وفي بيروت نشأت بين الماغوط والشاعر بدر شاكر السياب صداقة حميمة فكان السياب صديق التسكّع على أرصفة بيروت، وفي بيروت أيضاً تعرّف الماغوط في بيت أدونيس على الشاعرة سنية صالح (التي غدت في ما بعد زوجته)، وهي شقيقة خالدة سعيد زوجة أدونيس، وكان التعارف سببه تنافس على جائزة جريدة «النهار» لأحسن قصيدة نثر.

Sometimes, LOLing makes you feel good

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Landing Sequence of the Curiosity Mars Rover: Step-by-Step !

In order to land the Mars rover, NASA developed a new, never before used technology known as the Sky Crane. It is worth remembering here that the director of NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab at Caltech is Dr. Charles Elaachi [Lebanese]. He oversees the space exploration program such as the Mars Rovers.

Elaachi’s careful management of the Rover program, wrote the US News and World Report, was a key piece of its success. And Elaachi gives equal credit to some extraordinary luck.

Curiosity Mars Rover	NASA
Launch	11/26/2011
Landing on Mars	08/06/2012
Expected Length of the Mission	> 686 Days
Main Objective	To determine whether Mars was ever habitable

Details of Landing:

Description	Time until Landing, Seconds	Speed of the module, m/sec
Cruise Stage Separation	1016 sec.
Cruise Balance devices separation	896 sec.
Entry into the atmosphere	416 sec.	5900 m/s
Peak Heating
Peak Deceleration
Hypersonic aero-maneuvering
Parachute Deploy	162 sec.	405 m/s
Heat Shield separation	138 sec.	125 m/s
Radar Data Collection
Back Shell Separation
Powered Descent	80 sec.	52 m/s
Engaging of the Sky crane, separation of the rover from the sky crane	16 sec.	0.75 m/s
Start of descent
Landing	0 sec.	0.75 m/s
Crane Flyway
Done !! :)

While people of earth, especially our area, are so busy [fighting, killing, raping ...] each other, Elaachi and his team decided to salute them from Mars !

Peace.