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Unread 22 Jan 2004, 18:38   #1
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NASA bugger up another rover...

whoops

At least they didn't drive this one behind a rock out of radio range like the did with the last one...
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Re: NASA bugger up another rover...

Its been towed and impounded by the Martian Traffic Authority obviously. No Tax Disc.
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Re: NASA bugger up another rover...

Shame. :/
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Re: NASA bugger up another rover...

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whoops

At least they didn't drive this one behind a rock out of radio range like the did with the last one...
Or land it in a giant crater on land they thought was smooth.

On a side note, sounds like Spirit Blue Screened.
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Re: NASA bugger up another rover...

It probably got sent alot of spam offering penis enlargment and cheap viagra and self destructed.
Those spammers will go to any lenghts!
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Re: NASA bugger up another rover...

it was pretty predictable that the martians wouldn't take too kindly to our dropping probes in their midst.
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Re: NASA bugger up another rover...

Would seem like it,after all most of the mars missions end up destroyed. Maybe NASA should take a hint
The rover is probably smeared in martian graffiti saying "NASA go home"
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Re: NASA bugger up another rover...

Yeah now more info has come out it's sounding rather like the software on the rover has crashed.
Apparently it's fallback communication system (sending it morse-code like beeps to get more beeps in response just to check it's still alive) is working, and Mars Global Surveyor picked up it's normal radio signal but it had no data in it.

I expect NASA bosses are currently probing a few unlucky programmers in a back room somewhere with some sharp knives.

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Re: NASA bugger up another rover...

teh uk space project suxxxxxxxxxx, right?
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Question Re: NASA bugger up another rover...

Why pay untold millions to build complex machines to launch in the direction of Mars, when we could send Nodrog for free?

I want an answer from these barmy boffins.
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Re: NASA bugger up another rover...

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Why pay untold millions to build complex machines to launch in the direction of Mars, when we could send Nodrog for free?

I want an answer from these barmy boffins.
NASA can't afford the disposal fees.
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Re: NASA bugger up another rover...

if Opportunity fails then we'll know for sure something's going on on mars :P
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Re: NASA bugger up another rover...

it's Marvin!!

he pulled out his kp-2000 modulator...he doesn't want us there
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Re: NASA bugger up another rover...

who would? :P

and we had a discussion about this in the lunchroom yesterday. the guys said there's no way there's life out there cause they would have been here by now. and i said to them 'what's to say they're not intelliegent. or like us.. we haven't been very far.. perhaps they haven't the knowledge/technology to go off their planet'

i mean really. this planet has so many species.. and we're hte only ones to leave the earth.
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Re: NASA bugger up another rover...

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the guys said there's no way there's life out there cause they would have been here by now.
Fermi should have been shot.
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Re: NASA bugger up another rover...

Beagle was lying in wait.
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Re: NASA bugger up another rover...

Maybe the hollywood studio where they were faking all this caught on fire or the producers of "Spirit: The Fake Mars Rover" wanted more hush money.
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Re: NASA bugger up another rover...

What's going on exactly? Cos this morning the guy who built the x-ray stuff on Beagle 2 handed me a photo that had 'just come from the mars rover" of the open landing pod, taken from the outside.

I assumed that meant they had the rover working again...?
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Re: NASA bugger up another rover...

what a useful way to spend money
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Re: NASA bugger up another rover...

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what a useful way to spend money
i've spent the last week making black paint out of pure gold, isn't science great
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Re: NASA bugger up another rover...

when we find intelligent life on this planet, i'll believe it's possible on others.
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Re: NASA bugger up another rover...

ooh ragnarak is exploiting mie scattering.
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At less than $1billion (less than1/10th of what NASA's budget was last year) for both Spirit/Odyssey, it's a drop in the bucket.
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Beagle 2 was less than £40mil
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Re: NASA bugger up another rover...

if you remove launch costs beagle2 was practically free.
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Re: NASA bugger up another rover...

Yes I know...but Britain isn't exactly known as a leader in space "exploration" (read: spending) so to us, it's a drop in the bucket.

At least we got a few pictures from ours, and the mission isn't nearly scrubbed yet
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Yes I know...but Britain isn't exactly known as a leader in space "exploration" (read: spending) so to us, it's a drop in the bucket.

At least we got a few pictures from ours, and the mission isn't nearly scrubbed yet
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Re: NASA bugger up another rover...

that was al quaida. they have some bases over there and now they destroy all the probes before bush decides to blow up the whole mars.
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who would? :P

and we had a discussion about this in the lunchroom yesterday. the guys said there's no way there's life out there cause they would have been here by now. and i said to them 'what's to say they're not intelliegent. or like us.. we haven't been very far.. perhaps they haven't the knowledge/technology to go off their planet'

i mean really. this planet has so many species.. and we're hte only ones to leave the earth.
Part of the problem is that there's almost no atmosphere on mars, and there's no evidence of life other than 'probes going wrong!!!'.

It could just be cosmic waves, anyway.
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Re: NASA bugger up another rover...

imagine they find some kind of little bug on mars. then that'd be the first "alien" we discovered. and NASA would be uberhappy because they found a lifeform on another planet.
but seriously, who would give a fk? i know i wouldn't.


give me green aliens with big black eyes who fly around in shiny spacecrafts and a speak a funny language which nobody understands. i'll then pay attention.
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Re: NASA bugger up another rover...

They haven't even found evidence of microbes on mars, so 'some kind of little bug' would be pushing it a bit.

Quite a lot of people would 'give a fk', because it could supply valuable information in the sciences, especially relating to abiogenesis. There are also philisophical and religious things to address.
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Re: NASA bugger up another rover...

what's to say that alien life is exactly like ours. we're possibly looking for the wrong signs.
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Re: NASA bugger up another rover...

apparently it is sort of working a bit now.
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what's to say that alien life is exactly like ours. we're possibly looking for the wrong signs.
beacuse one has to make assumptions or you end up going "ooh look at that pebble, it is a lifeform, ooh look at that cloud, it's a lifeform, ooh look at that planet....." and so on
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Re: NASA bugger up another rover...

Send ricky butcher to mars, thats what i say
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Re: NASA bugger up another rover...

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What's going on exactly? Cos this morning the guy who built the x-ray stuff on Beagle 2 handed me a photo that had 'just come from the mars rover" of the open landing pod, taken from the outside.

I assumed that meant they had the rover working again...?
The rover broke, not the pod. Its two parts.
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The rover broke, not the pod. Its two parts.
the rover broke after that pic was sent.
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what's to say that alien life is exactly like ours. we're possibly looking for the wrong signs.
Well, if we're not looking for things that respire, reproduce, react, or the like, then it isn't technically life.

The simplest form of 'proper' life is a microbe, and we've only found one thing that suggested a cellular organism, and that turned out to be a rock.
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Re: NASA bugger up another rover...

oh I love MrL, he is so technically correct
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Re: NASA bugger up another rover...

From what they're saying now, it seems that Spirit broke down because...

(wait for it)

...it ran out of disk space.

The rover uses flash memory (the same stuff as is used to make those USB pen drives) and it can't operate when its full. Seems a bit of a daft oversight if you ask me, but there you go.

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From what they're saying now, it seems that Spirit broke down because...

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...it ran out of disk space.
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