NASA detects communication from too-quiet Mars rover

Houston Comical ^ | 1/23/04 | Mark Carreau and AP Staff

[N. Theknow]

And for you we have...

Click for Marvin

[jae471]

He's implying aliens are reprogramming Spirit to send back word they will be invading earth shortly.

He's looking at a dark vein running through a naturally occuring chunk of iron ore, similar to the ones found in the red clay on the East Coast. (At least, that's what I see in the 3MB image.)

[Gekko The Great]

HOWEVER, the cost of this project was over 800 million dollars. How many people are in the USA? Around 300 million? I would have much preferred cancelling this project and distributing the cash equally among every citizen in the USA.

So take the lousy $2.67 and buy yourself a Big Mac? It won't get you a glass of decent draft beer at your local pub. You aren't going to get rich from that, take it from me, someone who knows. Is that extra Big Mac or Grilled Stuft Burrito really that important to you, in the long run?

Greed is NOT good...

[theFIRMbss]

>If the US wants to kill the space program the only appropriate thing to do with the money is cut taxes. Anything else is just more welfare.

A trillion dollars
could have re-finished a lot
of highways, or fixed

a lot of bridges,
(or buttressed the power grid) --
things that help us all ...

Sci-fi games are great,
but NASA fails every time.
(They accomplish "things,"

but never complete
a mission per specs. For cash
in these quantities,

it's right to expect
more from these chowder-head geeks.)
Let's spend more wisely.

[SubSailor]

Wow man, $2.66 will make me RICH! For only $2.66 from each American, we have a robot exploring another planet. No other country on Earth has achieved that level of technology and successfully landed a robot on Mars. For the low cost of $2.66, you could not watch a Hollywood movie in a theater for that price.

Great! That's what I was hoping for, I got some responses from people who can do math.

"I want my 2 dollars!" LOL.

[The_Victor]

I got some responses from people who can do math.

Actually it's arithmetic. Math is what you do when you quit using actual numbers. :)

[The_Victor]

A trillion dollars could have re-finished a lot of highways, or fixed

a lot of bridges, (or buttressed the power grid) -- things that help us all ...

Just FYI, NASA entire budget for 42 years might total $300 billion.

We already have federal budget outlays for bridges, roads, welfare, and plenty of other blackhole moneypits for our taxdollars. Cut taxes or head for Mars are the only appropriate choices.

[KarlInOhio]

< Dean voice>Yeeeeeeeaaaaaaaahhhhgg< /Dean voice>

They found a Pepsi symbol on the rock and Coke had the rover wacked.

[autoresponder]

800 million to 300 million people

3)8 = $2.66 each

That will buy a burger and a Coke



Pretty close to 2¢

[KarlInOhio]

We already have federal budget outlays for bridges, roads, welfare, and plenty of other blackhole moneypits for our taxdollars.

For only $14.6 billion, Boston got all of those including the blackhole moneypit.

[LizardQueen]

We get signal!

Main screen turn on. (hopefully!)

LQ

[camas]

send the "meaningless radio noise" to NSA and let them decipher what the locals are trying to tell us. (go home yankee)

[Doohickey]

I'd gladly pay three bucks for the Mars Rover. I'll cover yours too.

[Smile-n-Win]

ping

[autoresponder]

$2.66 might buy a medium sized popcorn

[js1138]

They should have known better than to use Java on that thing. I can't count how many times it's crashed my web browser over the years.

Don't be so down on Java. Without it we wouldn't have pop-ups.

[theFIRMbss]

> Just FYI, NASA entire budget for 42 years might total $300 billion

Cool fantasy cash! Of course, if adjust for inflation, then, well ...

[New Horizon]

Can anyone tell me what the heck Hoagland is implying with these pics?

I think he's implying that something fell off the damn thing, and that NASA fuzzed up the photograph so that it would look like a rock, instead of what it really is; a rock.

[demlosers]

"I want my 2 dollars!"

Your that evil paperboy!
:-)

[Hunble]

It has been suggested many times, that Hollywood should fund the space missions. They would have excursive rights and Americans would have to view the movie in a theater.

For the cost of the last Star Wars movie, we could have visited many planets.

Personally, I would prefer that private corporations perform all future space explorations.