"A Clockwork Rover for Venus" Topic
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| Tango01 | 01 Nov 2017 9:44 p.m. PST |
"A concept inspired by clockwork computers and World War I tanks could one day help us find out. The design is being explored at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. The Automaton Rover for Extreme Environments (AREE) is funded for study by the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts program. The program offers small grants to develop early stage technology, allowing engineers to work out their ideas. AREE was first proposed in 2015 by Jonathan Sauder, a mechatronics engineer at JPL. He was inspired by mechanical computers, which use levers and gears to make calculations rather than electronics…"
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 Editor in Chief Bill   | 02 Nov 2017 9:03 a.m. PST |
Reminds me of my days an an engineering intern, designing 'relay logic' projects… |
 Parzival  | 02 Nov 2017 11:12 a.m. PST |
Yeah, but who's gonna go there to rewind the thing? And what about Daylight Saving Time? Have they though about that? Huh? Have they? 
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| Bowman | 07 Nov 2017 7:29 a.m. PST |
Maybe that can be a future choice for convicted murderers. Either execution or give them the wind up key for the Venus Rover. |
| Tango01 | 07 Nov 2017 11:02 a.m. PST |
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