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NASA detects communication from too-quiet Mars rover
Houston Comical ^
| 1/23/04
| Mark Carreau and AP Staff
Posted on 01/23/2004 7:06:26 AM PST by The_Victor
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To: labowski
I don't see any foot prints, however it does look like the rock in question has been disturbed. You can see it's impression in the soil and that it has moved up and to the right.
No big deal , could have been disturbed when the lander bounced to a stop
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posted on
01/23/2004 8:28:25 AM PST
by
Robe
(Rome did not create a great empire with meetings, they did it by killing all those who opposed them)
To: evets
Boots? We are talking hip waders there. That guy is such a KOOK! He's making
David Ickes look respectable at this point.
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posted on
01/23/2004 8:28:42 AM PST
by
Dead Corpse
(For an Evil Super Genius, you aren't too bright are you?)
To: sarasota
I'm speculating that we won't see Mars habitats during our lifetime. Maybe. But we have the ability, so we should be working on it. The asteroid/comet impact risk is real and probably inevitable. The best way to insure mankind's survival is with self supporting colonies on other planets.
And in the end, our solar system will self-destruct.
In which case we'd better be further out than the solar system when the time comes.
Yeah, I know, I the timeframe I'm thinking of is in the loony longterm. :)
To: demlosers
Finally, somebody gets it. I'm quite amused at how many responses I got to my original post about the rover costing too much money. I was only hoping for 1 and I got several! Just so I could set up my "two dollars" post. LOL.
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posted on
01/23/2004 8:33:24 AM PST
by
SubSailor
(I think we're all bozos on this bus.)
To: SubSailor
Your tag line brought back some funny college memories..."See you on the Funway."
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posted on
01/23/2004 8:42:48 AM PST
by
Dixiekraut
(qb....)
To: SubSailor
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. That works out to about $2.67 per person. It's your choice to be short-sighted (IMHO) but I consider it money well spent. Yes, I would prefer to see it done by private enterprise but the game is rigged so that this is the only way to play.
And, for those who think robotic missions are the way to go, if there were a person along on this mission, the problem might well be able to be diagnosed and fixed. That's not so certain by remote and, if it fails, makes the ROI much less appealing, even to me. Robots have their place, and I think we ought to be peppering the universe with them, but you can't beat a human for exploration and handling the unexpected.
People are more versatile than machines. And more curious. And more cautious. Makes for a strange breed.
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posted on
01/23/2004 8:48:20 AM PST
by
Elric@Melnibone
(Adventure is worthy in itself. - Amelia Earhart)
To: The_Victor
"We know we have a very serious anomaly on the vehicle," said NASA's Pete Theisinger . . .As the President said in Armageddon, "Enough of this 'anomaly' horseshit, what do we have here?"
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posted on
01/23/2004 8:52:08 AM PST
by
geedee
(Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.)
To: The_Victor
LOL..Rush sez the Rover has completed the secret communications with Haliburton and can now "wake up" and communicate with NASA.
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posted on
01/23/2004 9:23:59 AM PST
by
evad
(Welcome back Joe Gibbs...we've been waitin')
To: The_Victor
Arithmetic (from Webster's, italics mine)
1 a : a branch of mathematics that deals usually with the nonnegative real numbers including sometimes the transfinite cardinals and with the application of the operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division to them b : a treatise on arithmetic
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posted on
01/23/2004 9:24:52 AM PST
by
SubSailor
(I think we're all bozos on this bus.)
To: Dixiekraut
Your tag line brought back some funny college memories..."See you on the Funway." Not many people recognize that nowadays
"Mr. President, where can I get a job?!"
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posted on
01/23/2004 9:27:25 AM PST
by
SubSailor
(I think we're all bozos on this bus.)
To: SubSailor
"Where the vegetables are green,and you can pee in the stream.....and that's important!"
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posted on
01/23/2004 9:46:03 AM PST
by
Dixiekraut
(qb....)
To: evad; bonfire; RadioAstronomer; bonesmccoy; Ernest_at_the_Beach; GeronL; glock rocks; Phil V.; ...
Press conference NOW!
It's talking...sort of!
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posted on
01/23/2004 10:04:13 AM PST
by
Howlin
(Come on, Johnny, pull for the Panthers!)
To: Dixiekraut
"Can you hear me now?"
To: SubSailor
I wonder if Howard Dean is reading this thread and screaming silently.
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posted on
01/23/2004 10:07:57 AM PST
by
RightWhale
(Repeal the Law of the Excluded Middle)
To: Howlin
Sounds like it has a software problem....
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posted on
01/23/2004 10:08:25 AM PST
by
Dog
("America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our Country")
To: The_Victor
Boy, I'm good. Just heard on Fox that NASA reps are blaming the high-gain antenna. I predicted that in post 80.
To: MrsEmmaPeel
So what does that mean??
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posted on
01/23/2004 10:09:03 AM PST
by
Dog
("America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our Country")
To: MrsEmmaPeel; Howlin
Live coverage on CSPAN...
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posted on
01/23/2004 10:10:36 AM PST
by
Dog
("America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our Country")
To: Dog
So what does that mean?? If they are restricted to only 120 bits/second then forget pretty pictures. All they can do is transmit and receive a minimalist instruction/command set to the spacecraft.
It means the mission has taken a new kink - as every command well need to be acked. Every command will be received S-L-O-W-L-Y and ever ack will come back V-E-R-Y S-L-O-W-L-Y
To: SubSailor
Where's my fuzzy duffle bag?
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