Mars lander and yellow vests

Diaphone Jim • Nov 25, 2018 8:07 pm
Tomorrow at noon PST the new Mars surface science station will or will not land safely. Pictures may come soon.

Anybody else wonder why the recently famous French high visibility yellow vests are green?
xoxoxoBruce • Nov 25, 2018 10:20 pm
Yellow was replaced by puke green several years ago in the US. Why are the French Yellow Vests famous?
tw • Nov 26, 2018 9:31 am
Diaphone Jim;1019623 wrote:
Anybody else wonder why the recently famous French high visibility yellow vests are green?


Colors are chosen based upon what the eye and brain can most easily detect and identify. For example, red items are literally camouflaged at dawn and dusk. That is when red cars are most likely overlooked; crashes result.
Undertoad • Nov 26, 2018 10:17 am
xoxoxoBruce;1019630 wrote:
Why are the French Yellow Vests famous?


Recently famous, because for the last 9 days they have been worn by protestors.
xoxoxoBruce • Nov 26, 2018 11:04 am
Ah, thank you, one of the hazards of withdrawing from the news. :haha:
Diaphone Jim • Nov 26, 2018 6:21 pm
https://socialistworker.co.uk/images1412/Image/2018/2632/france-yellow-vests-protest-road-block-paris.jpg

vert, n’est-ce pas ?
tw • Nov 26, 2018 7:17 pm
Diaphone Jim;1019623 wrote:
Tomorrow at noon PST the new Mars surface science station will or will not land safely.

Now that everyone in NASA is no longer using an obsolete technology American measurement system, NASA research vehicles are repeatedly landing safely.

Insight has landed. This one is a base station; not a Rover.

Also attached were two CubeSats for testing new communication strategies.
Griff • Nov 27, 2018 5:50 pm
Pretty sweet science/tech.
BigV • Nov 28, 2018 11:17 pm
didja see this?

and here is the best explainer of the Mars InSight mission.
xoxoxoBruce • Nov 29, 2018 12:07 am
Nobody can top inman for explaining anything at all. He's fantastic.:notworthy