[Elecraft] OT: We're on Mars!! Worth the Science

[Lee Buller]

Tom....

China has enough money to rebuild....mostly mine and yours.  Burma is a sad state of affairs which needs the whole world to see that despots are bad and do something about them.  Money will save Burma now, but not fix Burma for the future.

Now Mars and the science it will bring is fascinating and well worth the money us Yanks have spent on it.  The technology is fantastic....everything was done by remote or by software...and new technologies were invented.  You will benefit from those in the future.  Kudos to the Mars team who made a basket (swish) from several million miles away!  Fantastic.

Think a little broader...

I wonder what the call sign on Mars would be?  We would have to come up with a whole new call sign plan.  HMMMMM.....  What would the prefix be for Mercury, Venus, Mars, and the moons of the gas Giants?  Think of contesting between Mars and Earth....

Lee - K0WA



In our day and age it seems that Common Sense is in short supply.  If you don't have any Common Sense - get some Common Sense and use it.  If you can't find any Common Sense, ask for help from somebody who has some Common Sense.  Is Common Sense divine?