Editing Talk:2427: Perseverance Microphones

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Thank you, Galaktos, for the explanation.  I knew all the events and words already, but you put them together for me so that Randall's intent became clearer to me.  Kudos. [[User:JohnB|JohnB]] ([[User talk:JohnB|talk]]) 22:26, 19 February 2021 (UTC)

: I mean, I just thought I’d write a first version and later someone would rewrite it, but apparently it’s been good enough so far :D --[[User:Galaktos|Galaktos]] ([[User talk:Galaktos|talk]]) 22:48, 19 February 2021 (UTC)

:: I read it through several times utterly happy with how I found it, but decided to add a ''little'' bit about the actual Terror. It ended up less snappy, unfortunately. Hope it doesn't smother the rest. [[Special:Contributions/141.101.105.134|141.101.105.134]] 00:24, 20 February 2021 (UTC)

: I've added a little bit about the audio.  I'm not sure there's much more to add to this, given it's a (well-executed) one shot joke and there's content elsewhere about Mars Rovers etc?

None of the explanations for screaming look very believable to me, yet we made up a lot of them.  There are other explanations where, if you have the relevant experience, it's very obvious that the explainer made their explanation up.  I wonder if it would be good to have a way to indicate in-article that a part of the joke didn't actually strike home for any of the editors so far, and there might be a domain of expertise missing in the authorship. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.63.196|162.158.63.196]] 21:29, 20 February 2021 (UTC)
:Yeah, I don't think the electric guitar/feedback explanation is right. "Squealing" or "squawking" are the normal terms, not screaming. I read the title text as being analogous to someone screaming on a roller coaster. This would be the rover's first ever descent, it would be scary, it would scream. [[User:Stevage|Stevage]] ([[User talk:Stevage|talk]]) 09:21, 21 February 2021 (UTC)

"The round-trip communication delay significantly exceeds" ... The descend took 7 minutes, the delay was 11 minutes (would be 22 in both directions). Not THAT much exceeding ... of course, not usable for steering. -- [[User:Hkmaly|Hkmaly]] ([[User talk:Hkmaly|talk]]) 01:27, 21 February 2021 (UTC)
:If it takes three times the time to react to something than the whole duration of the something one might wish to react to, I say that's significantly exceeding. (More so given it's probably the later minutes or even the last few seconds where intervention might have been most needed. Though wasn't.)
:It also makes you wonder if manned descents will ever be as with Armstrong in the Eagle or just "spam in a can" where the human payload is told to stay hands off whatever controls they ''think'' they can use. I really doubt (unlike in Ad Astra) it'll ever be more practical to have a piloted entry. Not in a tail-first-with-suicide-burn landing, anyway. A 'descent-plane' maybe, with Shuttle-like glider/semi-glider landing, but even then the Russians had a 100% record (one of one!) landing Buran without a pilot, and martian flight is obviously a trickier thing to train for. (Maybe design for... Ingenuity is yet to do its own thing for real..) [[Special:Contributions/141.101.98.36|141.101.98.36]] 16:14, 21 February 2021 (UTC)

The intro refers to a play on words on "sample" and "return". Now, "sample" is covered (a specimen of soil/rock vs a short clip of music). What are the two meanings of "return"? [[User:Stevage|Stevage]] ([[User talk:Stevage|talk]]) 09:22, 21 February 2021 (UTC)

FIFY [[Special:Contributions/162.158.74.97|162.158.74.97]] 11:35, 22 February 2021 (UTC)

Here's some more information about [https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/spacecraft/rover/microphones/ Perserverance's Microphones] and here is a link to [https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/participate/sounds/ some of the sound recordings] that are available. --[[User:WhiteDragon|WhiteDragon]] ([[User talk:WhiteDragon|talk]]) 16:30, 22 February 2021 (UTC)

== Has anyone actually done this yet? ==

I was surprised to find that the discussion didn't include any links to any actual techno music that fans have made using the audio from the rover. --[[User:WhiteDragon|WhiteDragon]] ([[User talk:WhiteDragon|talk]]) 16:30, 22 February 2021 (UTC)