Episode 51: Science News.... Male contraceptive pil, heartbeat causes wrinkels in time and Hansel and Gretel
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A Trick Inspired by Hansel and Gretel Could Help Rovers Explore the World's Plural World
A trick inspired by Hansel and Gretel could help rovers explore the world's plural world. Scientists are now having is that to perhaps use a multi rover system where a smaller rover piggybacks on a larger mother rover. But then it still cannot sort of communicate back to data. So what they want to do is leave these sensors, which they call the breadcrumbs from Hansels and Gretel that like are the size of airports. And then that sort of system can ping from one sensor to the other back to the mother rover and then back to earth. Yeah. I would like to hope that was intentional, if not still brilliant.
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