Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Great news! This little rover just keeps going and going, just like the Energizer bunny.
1 posted on 06/05/2005 11:40:21 AM PDT by rawhide
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies ]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-23 next last
To: rawhide

They made the sudden discovery that, like R2D2, the rover has the heretofore unsuspected ability to fly.


2 posted on 06/05/2005 11:42:36 AM PDT by JohnnyZ (Defeat Pat DeWine, RINO Mike DeWine's son! Tom Brinkman for Congress http://www.gobrinkman.com/)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: rawhide

I never had a doubt.


3 posted on 06/05/2005 11:42:59 AM PDT by demlosers
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: rawhide
that cost $400 million to build

A Mars rover never fed, clothed, housed, a terrorist detainee.

/sarcasm

6 posted on 06/05/2005 11:48:05 AM PDT by Paul Atreides (FACT: You can get more reliable information in a beauty shop, than from the media)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: KevinDavis

Good news from Mars ping!


7 posted on 06/05/2005 11:48:20 AM PDT by Wiz
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: rawhide

I hadn't heard that it got stuck.


8 posted on 06/05/2005 11:48:33 AM PDT by Darksheare (Hey troll, Sith happens.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: rawhide
"Great news! This little rover just keeps going and going, just like the Energizer bunny."

Great. These rovers have already exceeded expectations by 5X.

9 posted on 06/05/2005 11:48:37 AM PDT by blam
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: rawhide

Will it go find Sheilla Jackson Lee now?


11 posted on 06/05/2005 11:50:01 AM PDT by bayourod (Unless we get over 40% of the Hispanic vote in 2008, President Hillary will take all your guns away.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: rawhide; KevinDavis
project manager Jim Erickson said. "I'd like to wear it out rather than lose it."

OK, he was talking about the Opportunity ROVER...

12 posted on 06/05/2005 11:51:43 AM PDT by mikrofon (Space BUMP)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: rawhide

15 posted on 06/05/2005 11:53:11 AM PDT by Jackknife (No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation.-MacArthur)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: rawhide; neverdem; PatrickHenry; Swordmaker

This one's for you...

Thank's rawhide!


22 posted on 06/05/2005 12:15:58 PM PDT by tiamat ("I live in my own little world. But it's okay. They know me here.")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: rawhide
Its good they got it moving, in another week it was going to look like this:


25 posted on 06/05/2005 12:18:42 PM PDT by Lockbar (March toward the sound of the guns.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: rawhide

Now that he's over the dunes, does he have a little surfboard with him?


27 posted on 06/05/2005 12:23:15 PM PDT by BobS
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: rawhide
BUMP
33 posted on 06/05/2005 12:41:33 PM PDT by JamminJAY (This space for rent)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: rawhide

Fantastic!

Not bad, considering that the rover was only supposed to be operational for about three months....

JPL has earned some kudos for this mission....


36 posted on 06/05/2005 1:05:30 PM PDT by Bean Counter
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: rawhide
Finally paid those overdue parking tickets.


38 posted on 06/05/2005 1:17:27 PM PDT by Larry Lucido (This tagline is copyrighted. Reprint only with permission unless excepted for educational purposes.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: rawhide

Thanks to OnStar.


39 posted on 06/05/2005 1:19:02 PM PDT by AmishDude (Join the AD fan club: "Very well stated, AD." -- Diana in Wisconsin; "LOL!!!" -- MikeinIraq)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: rawhide

USA mars rovers are better then the failed Europe's Mars Beagle 2.


40 posted on 06/05/2005 1:19:43 PM PDT by FreeRep
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: rawhide

Isn't AAA wonderful!


44 posted on 06/05/2005 2:21:46 PM PDT by jslade ("If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: rawhide

I bet they landed a speaker nearby that said "red rover come over"...and voila?


46 posted on 06/05/2005 6:21:53 PM PDT by lexington minuteman 1775
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: rawhide; All

Great news! Thanks for posting. And a bump for funny FReepers.


47 posted on 06/05/2005 6:26:52 PM PDT by PGalt
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-23 next last

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson