Mars 2053 [Spirit rover sends back data stating that it is in the year 2053!]

Astrobiology Magazine ^ | 1.26.04 | Astrobiology Magazine

[ambrose]

Someone call Hoagland!

[ambrose]

ping.

[Columbine]

There really is life on Mars.

Spirit has been taken over by Martians!

[RightWhale]

Seen Hoagland lately?

[Petronski]

It's 2053 on Mars? Wow, I wonder how the flag at the Apollo-11 landing site is holding up, it's almost 84 years old.

[Truth666]

They should have updated their shareware vesion to make it Y2K compatible ...
Plenty of water... but you are right - in Mars the true beauty is to be found in the mountains - still untouched by global warming

[RoseofTexas]

The poor baby has gone completely BONKERS! :)

[diamondjoe]

You blew it up! Dammmmmmmn you! Dammmmn you allllll to helllllll!

[Publius]

...or it encountered a time warp.

[Blood of Tyrants]

"The 90 day operation on Mars is when the warranty expires.

$468 million just doesn't buy what it used to.

[StriperSniper]

"Don't look at me!"

[Simmy2.5]

Hoagland has been quite, for now. Guess he has to wait for Spirit or Oppurtunity, or even the Mars Express to send more pictures so that he can say that there are "artifacts" in them that NASA is trying to cover up. :-P

[Professional Engineer]

Imagine getting a message from Mars, saying the spacecraft is communicating from the future. The year, 2053, to be precise.

Wait, Relativity says time is supposed to SLOW the further you get out of the gravity well. What gives?

[clyde asbury]

My God .. it's full of stars !

[brooklin]

Would spirit have fit through the door on the tardis?

[fini]

Those crazy guys from NASA decided to save the taxpayers some real money. For the price of one Martian Rover, we have gotten a Martian Rover and a time machine. What will those guys think of next- a transporter?

[Johnny_Cipher]

Maybe ol' Doc Brown couldn't find a beer can to throw into Mr. Fusion.

[.cnI redruM]

>>>>>>Based on a hunch from the software architect, the problem may be a byproduct of the mission's early success.

This man must have helped General Dynamics design The Stryker.

[_Jim]

Dejavu - something like this happened in the 1997 Pathfinder -

- they were using VxWorks at that time too!

Excerpt:

http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~brewer/cs262/PriorityInversion.html

This week at the IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium I heard a fascinating keynote address by David Wilner, Chief Technical Officer of Wind River Systems. Wind River makes VxWorks, the real-time embedded systems kernel that was used in the Mars Pathfinder mission. In his talk, he explained in detail the actual software problems that caused the total system resets of the Pathfinder spacecraft, how they were diagnosed, and how they were solved. I wanted to share his story with each of you.