Recent Mars Images (Marvin the Martian throws down the kaboom in a guest zot)

[aardwolf46]

All over the internet recently, sciFy vs. reality and a Mars satellite for petty cash:

That breaks the monopoly. Faced with the spectre of other nations publishing uncensored Mars images, NASA and JPL have started publishing some much more obvious images than they have in the past including a totally uncensored video (JPL) showing large-scale structure.

A few items...

JPL uncensored video showing large-scale structure:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=W7-4nSye4lM

Raw JPL video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ka08deWohpQ

Electrical device of some sort with helical coil wound around it
Device is on the left, about a third of the way down on the image

Gear of some sort.

Raw image showing gear:

Wheel - axle device

Raw NASA/JPL image:

Metallic container with handle

Raw image:

One final game-over category image

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Facebook group dealing with Mars anomaly images:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/TheMarsReality/

Other resources:

http://marsanomalyresearch.com

http://whatsupinthesky.com

[NicknamedBob]

"Now it’s time to see if there is any loose smoke..."

I had some of that last night. Problem was, it was real smoke, and not the magic kind. Magic smoke smells different than other smoke.

It probably smells like burning money. I don't know what burning money smells like, so I can't say for sure.

[moose07]

It is an impressive display ,isn't it.
They where on sale to the public to cover the cost, they sold out within days.

(Hope the ice-rink is put in the moat again this winter, PTFE ice is not as painful when the ‘rear buffer zone’ lands on it. :) )

[moose07]

It doesn’t work quite like that ,but, Thank you TC. :)

[moose07]

“Never encountered such rude people as the employees at Heathrow. “

Never have a heavy label on your case if flying through that ‘hole.
What altitude do you need to drop a Samsonite case from in order to push the handle in flush with the steel frame? (but it didn't unlock!)

[moose07]

Travel safe ,TC.

[NoCmpromiz]

It probably smells like burning money.

That's what it's starting to smell like..

No smoke of any variety. As a matter of fact, there was ... nothing. Probably punishment for trying to salvage stuff from an older box instead of buying new and straying from mobo brands I normally use. But Linux doesn't need NEW stuff, and all I wanted to do was replicate the box it was on without getting a motherboard that used the nVidia chipset that melts, and that still had a pata channel on it so I could reuse the old hard drive and dvd... OK, so I'm cheap...

I found a mobo with AM2+-AM3 socket and ability to use either DDR2 or DDR3 (but not both simultaneously) and the AMD chipset which I thought was a good deal because if in the future I wanted to upgrade the cpu to the 'latest' AM3 Phenom or whatever it is now, I could do that and also then switch to the DDR3 memory..

Put the cpu/heatsink/memory/ on the mobo, installed it in the box, and hooked all the pluggythings up. Before I hooked up the hard drives and dvd I wanted to boot into bios to see what's what and verify that it was alive.

But it's dead, Jim... With no flashbangs, no smoke, no blinky lights, nada. Dead without even wearing the telltale red shirt. Stone cold dead. (Well, when I push the power button, it does light the pretty blue power light that halos the button - I would be impressed by that if the cpu started and offered an indication of same by, say, turning on the system fans, but that didn't happen and I'm not impressed by a lying power button blue light special.)

So now I have to consider options first of which is tell the seller he/they sold me a defective mobo - of course using EBay's messaging so that the EBay folk have a record of the correspondence in case I need them to extract the refund should it come to that.

In the meantime, I'll look at some other brands of mobo's (I usually use MSI or Asus, but this board was - you guessed it - cheaper.)

Guess I have to dredge up another project while this one sits in limbo..

[Gefn]

I would have bought one.

I have thar big Georgia O’Keefe poppy print hanging over my bed, I got it when she was at the museum of modern art in NYC.

I also like poppy seeds on bagels

[Tax-chick]

[Gefn]

Pretty kitty!!!!

How are you this morning, TC?

[NicknamedBob]

So if someone says to me today, “Guess what day it is?”, I’m planning to say “Unnnngh”.

[Gefn]

Today is hump day and

(((((Drum roll please)))))))

NATIONAL PIZZA DAY WITH THE WORKS!!!!

Got pepperoni?

[NicknamedBob]

I need more coffee.

[Gefn]

I haven t had any yet today.

[Monkey Face]

That’s what I’m missing...

[ArGee]

Since yestidday was a holiday here in NYC I took the aftinoon off. J

[ArGee]

Safe trip and hope all is well. Sorry I missed wishing this yesterday afternoon.

[ArGee]

You spilled your ... your what? ... Your coffee? What’s coffee, Walt?

It’s a drink made out of beans???!!! A lot of people drink coffee with their first cigarette, you say?

Tell you what, Walt. Why don’t you buy a boatload of those beans, too. If you can talk people into sticking burning leaves in their mouths they’ve GOTTA go for those beans.

- Bob Newhart

[Monkey Face]

Weigh day...I lost 3.5#!

There is hope for me!

That is a total of 31.5 pounds gone.

[Monkey Face]

I just got a text from Tax-chick. She is safely on the ground in Orlando, FL. No problems on the flight.

[Monkey Face]

*pounce*