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on Friday July 22 2016, @10:13PM
from the frickin'-rovers-with-frickin'-laser-beams dept.
from the frickin'-rovers-with-frickin'-laser-beams dept.
So we've been blasting lasers at the poor rock-tizens of Mars from the Curiosity Rover for a while now. This is on the humans, as we decide remotely what to blast. However, according to Space.com, the Rover have now been trained to blast rocks all on its own volition. There's a reason for this as stated in the article, however one can't help but wonder if there would eventually be an "Ooops" moment where is would blast something significant by mistake when its herders aren't around.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 22 2016, @10:30PM
The chances are so astronomically small that it would vaporize something important, and letting it increase the sampling rate vastly improves the chances of finding something interesting. It can't vaporize anything too large, though if there are bug sized martians then yes that could be bad. I'm gonna stick with this being a silly question.