Mars helicopter to try for new speed record on Thursday

[mfiguiere]

https://www.theregister.com/2023/10/12/mars_helicopter_speed_record_attempt/

[aidos]

> The Register has poured Ingenuity's flight log into Excel and sorted the data, leading us to conclude that Flight 62 will surpass Flight 60's top speed of 8m/sec.

Just seems like a funny line to write.

Remarkable bit of engineering, that’s for sure. (Edit talking about Ingenuity here)

[shapefrog → aidos]

I have poured the flight log into a fisher price abacus and the say and see machine, leading us to conclude that Flight 62 will surpass Flight 60's top speed of 8m/sec and a cow says 'moo'.

[tetris11 → aidos]

When you don't have a lot of data points, but a good amount of variables, excel is genuinely the best-suited tool for the task.

[aidos → tetris11]

Oh, for sure, just struck me as a strange thing to add to an article.

[davidguetta]

Whats thé point ? Dont they have actualn science studfn to do

[wilg]

I guess it won't be a world record.

[pmx → wilg]

It will be a world record, just not this world!