Comments by "Roger Dodger" (@rogerdodger8415) on "InSight's Final Signals Were the Most Important of Them All" video.

@Sco1ful Compressed helium is good down to NEGATIVE 450 degrees and would work easily to blow off the dust. The mechanism for storage of the gas and control might be under ten pounds.
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@robinhodgkinson Oh yeah...they're stupid. Space X invented a rocket engine when NASA couldn't.
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@KnightspaceORG ENGINE!! A rocket engine. They were paying the Russians to launch to the space station.
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@morenofranco9235 The sand is more like tiny bits of glass shards. Very sharp and glass like, they are also very sticky. I think they were worried about scratching the panels coating. I know that there is also an issue with the dust holding a static charge. A good high pressure helium stream would have been really effective. It doesn't freeze until around 450 below.
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We pay these government "engineers" hundreds of thousands of dollars per year to design multi million dollar "exploration" missions that they KNOW will fail because of dust that they do NOTHING about. Sounds like a government employee to me!!
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@FoothillsofFreedom Since they're so smart, why does a launch from an INFERIOR ROCKET cost billions, while a guy from South Africa puts together a team of "brilliant scientists and engineers" that costs ten MILLION per launch?? Then explain why HIS is a reusable rocket, while those world class people of yours have to drop their solid rocket boosters into the ocean?
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@smolltaco5667 kidding about what?
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@washyrose5904 A helium balloon sinks in a vacuum. You only need to do the cleaning a few times. A high pressure canister the size of a can of hair spray would clean the panels nicely. No curlers required.
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@hanspecans The tale of science is full of ostracized dissenters. Let me waste a few electrons on you.... The brilliant aerospace engineers spent millions and years of research developing a pen that could write upside down. The Soviets used a pencil. Ugh... I could go on but it's a wasteland out there with our poor education system.
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@bryandraughn9830 Uh no.. it would be one that is so easily done that it requires no cerebral activity. Much like a fart. You can think of it as a high pressure fart that cleans the dust from the solar panel.
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@GrantValdes Tell that to my bicycle tire.
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