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Nasa rover breaks down on Mars
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| 22 January, 2004
Posted on 01/22/2004 10:26:39 AM PST by traumer
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To: traumer
They should have not been messing around with the damn power grinder. Haven't they ever seen the movie tremors???
To: traumer
Doesn't it have OnStar?
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posted on
01/22/2004 11:12:25 AM PST
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JSteff
To: cynicalman
Yeah, they should have had Toyota make the rover..... then it would still be going when we finally got people there.
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01/22/2004 11:14:41 AM PST
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JSteff
To: cynicalman
Yeah, they should have had Toyota make the rover..... then it would still be going when we finally got people there.
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01/22/2004 11:14:48 AM PST
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JSteff
To: traumer
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posted on
01/22/2004 11:31:20 AM PST
by
Dahoser
(Guest worker program?! Now I'm deeply saddened.)
To: traumer
But Spirit was only transmitting "pseudo-noise", a random series of zeroes and ones in binary code and not anything the scientists could decipher. And how do they know it is random noise? Hmnnn? How do they know it is not being controlled by some one trying to communicate with us? So many questions.....100100110001101110
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01/22/2004 11:32:15 AM PST
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itsahoot
(The lesser of two evils, is evil still...Alan Keyes)
To: itsahoot
Like they say... there's only 10 types of people: those who understand binary and those who don't.
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01/22/2004 11:38:12 AM PST
by
Ramius
To: smith288
I didn't realize software could be affected by extreme cold, radiation and a fiery decent into a hostile atmosphere, more likely a hardware problem.
To: traumer
One problem with a wayward rover is it might forget to recharge its battery.
To: cynicalman
No doubt built by either Ford or GMFound Our Rover Dead or Gibber Mars.
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posted on
01/22/2004 11:58:37 AM PST
by
farmfriend
( Isaiah 55:10,11)
To: Dahoser
Why hasn't anyone thought of this solution?
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posted on
01/22/2004 12:08:37 PM PST
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Dog Gone
To: itsahoot
>>>>And how do they know it is random noise? Hmnnn? How do they know it is not being controlled by some one trying to communicate with us? So many questions.....100100110001101110
What if Spirit Rover has suddenely realized through A.I. that it is not in Pasadena anymore...and is freaking out!
Binary Gibberish could be praying...
Then too..it could be data stream for Citibank Mastercard.
Rover could be like NASA....make Money before Science : )
To: RockyMtnMan
It apparently died immediately after feeding it new commands.
It is also possible they gave it bad or incomplete commands crashing the system.
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01/22/2004 5:22:49 PM PST
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DB
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