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Adam Steltzner, Beyond Mars, Earth
SFJAZZ Center
San Francisco, CA
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Adam Steltzner, Beyond Mars, Earth
About this Seminar:
"Dare mighty things" concludes the most dramatic space video in years, "Seven Minutes of Terror."  Narrated by Adam Steltzner, it spelled out how the "sky crane" his team designed at JPL would have to perform an elaborate, impossible-seeming sequence to lower the huge Mars rover Curiosity to the planet's surface from a hovering rocket guided totally by artificial intelligence.  Humans wouldn't know if it worked until it was all over.  Hence the terror.

The actual Mars landing on August 6, 02012, went perfectly, and Steltzner found himself a TV superstar after the live coverage, and the subject of a New Yorker profile.  Before the landing, Steltzner told the writer: "Six vehicle configurations. Seventy-six pyrotechnic devices. Five hundred thousand lines of code. ZERO margin of error.....You and I are sitting at the edge of an event horizon, like a black hole.... Sunday night, we'll slip into it, and at least two universes will be awaiting us on the other side: the  one where we succeed and the one where we fail. People are scared shitless now. But if we stick the landing, all of a sudden they'll be saying, 'Hey, how about doing the next one the same way?' "

Fans in the San Francisco area discovered he was local talent, the product of College of Marin, a kid who discovered science late and soared to meet it.

Now he wonders, "How does our exploration of Mars inform what might come next for us humans and our Earth?"

Dare mighty things.

About the Series:
The Seminars About Long-term Thinking were started in 02003 to build a coherent, compelling body of ideas about long-term thinking, to help nudge civilization toward Long Now's goal of making long-term thinking automatic and common instead of difficult and rare.

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SFJAZZ Center (View)
201 Franklin Street
San Francisco, CA 94102
United States

Categories

Arts > Literary
Other > Technology

Kid Friendly: No
Dog Friendly: No
Non-Smoking: Yes!
Wheelchair Accessible: Yes!

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Owner: The Long Now Foundation
On BPT Since: May 02, 2008
 
The Long Now Foundation
longnow.org/seminars/02013...


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