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Sailboats and the Mars Lander

I have been watching and following a number of youtube channels focused on Sailing and sailboat repairs these past weeks. I've been subscribed to the Sailing Delos channel and Sailing Uma channel since last year. I am attracted to adventures that call for an extended number of days to complete plus the places shown and the occasional emergencies encountered along the way. There is science and mathematics in attempting to cross thousands of miles of oceans. There's the probability of storms and squalls along the way. Sailing channels are not just travel video blogs but there's also a lot of drama - and the music is addictive if not crucial to the message of the channel. The sailors who record their adventures become youtube superstars, with hundreds of thousands of subscribers and hundreds of thousands of views each episode. 

This week I began following another sailor albeit with a unique circumstance. He is Juho in the Alluring Arctic Channel. Juho sails a Beneteau Idylle 11.60 in winter in Northern Norway, above the arctic circle. Yes, there won't be any bikini-wearing girls appearing in this one. But I might be wrong. 

Come February 18th, a ship launched 7 months ago by NASA carrying a Mars lander arrives on the surface of the red planet. By the time this post is published, Perseverance would have began its trucking over the Mars soil. I wonder how long it would take until this kind of trip carries a human being telling us what he is seeing and doing, including an appropriate music while we earthbound humans watch. 

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