How do engineers come up with all these ingenious ideas? This is a question which we all asked ourselves at least once while reading the news or watching a video. Our answer would be that it definitely wasn’t the first idea that they came up with…
Then how long did it take until the final idea popped up? Our second blog only covers a little part of the ideas that were discussed during our meetings. The ones that we didn’t mention… Those are the really stupid secondary missions and, trust me, there were a handful of those. But after all every idea sounds stupid at the beginning. Who would have thought that we’d have small TV’s in our pockets, which we would carry around everywhere? 50 years ago this would have been catalogued as crazy. Well the same kind of situation happened to us. Ioana came up with the secondary idea while we were still debating two other possible missions which we considered plausible. Her proposal sounded like this: “What if we leave two small objects that can measure important atmospheric parameters on the track?” At first we didn’t give it much attention as we were settling between the two other ideas and the debate was getting intense but we still kept her idea in the back of our heads.
The debate ended… It ended, but not the way we expected it. We managed to convince ourselves that actually neither of those two ideas were actually possible. Silence took over. No one was saying a word. Everybody was out of ideas. Almost. Ioana intervened again: “So we can have these two devices, which would measure temperature, pressure and humidity and we could compare the two data sets. We could compare them and then we could pick the best place for a human settlement or something like that. What do you guys think?“ As the debate had ended everybody was listening carefully. Slowly the mood of our meet started to change. Every question or doubt that came up about that proposal was cleared by a clear, practical answer given by every single one of us. “Yes, Yes, we can definitely do that!”
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