Go Spirit GO!!!

[Duedel]

Oh man, thats so unbelievable great. This little cute machine driving over the surface of mars collecting information, all alone, no one is there only ... ... he ... ...  millions of miles away from his  ... ... friends...

But honestly, its super cool! I really would like to be in Pasadena in the NASA control center.

[Tuomio]

[Eagler]

seriously, I find it as exciting as watching grass grow ...

for bush to jump on this bandwagon of nerd excitement with his "to the moon and beyond" spew, makes him look bad imo

first the illegal mexicans, now the nasa geeks - waiting for him to declare another AA holiday for someone/thing to try and garner additional black votes .... politics makes me sick sometimes.

[Ping]

Lets hope its not using Firestone's

[Ripsnort]

Originally posted by Eagler
seriously, I find it as exciting as watching grass grow ...

for bush to jump on this bandwagon of nerd excitement with his "to the moon and beyond" spew, makes him look bad imo

first the illegal mexicans, now the nasa geeks - waiting for him to declare another AA holiday for someone/thing to try and garner additional black votes .... politics makes me sick sometimes.

Moving over to the Dean camp, eh? :D:D

[Eagler]

Originally posted by Ripsnort
Moving over to the Dean camp, eh? :D:D

never - he still gets my vote

[Tuomio]

Originally posted by Eagler
seriously, I find it as exciting as watching grass grow ...
 

Dont mention it, 4 months to summer, cant wait to start observing my back yard grass!

Last time i got it 50cm tall before my neighbour came and mowed it.

[GRUNHERZ]

Booosh is invading mars!!!!

[Duedel]

The difference between mars and illegal mexicans is not so big as i thought - yawn

[LePaul]

Oh geesh guys, a great scientific acheivement to learn about another planet and you guys are well on the way to make it yet another off-topic political rant.  Would it really kill you guys to be impressed with all the work it took to get that lil guy up there?  We're talking a place that's a dot when you stare up at the stars at night.

I'm pretty impressed with what Spirit has pulled off and the technologies used.  Its -90F up there and this battery/solar powered rover is beaming back some great images and is preparing to do some great science in the Gustev Crater.

NASA

[Eagler]

yes, it is amazing but for what? so a bunch of geeks can play with their long distance R/C dunebuggy? so the 24hr news channels have content?

Too much money for such little return ..

space is great but I think we need answers here on planet earth before we go asking more questions out there...

getting ppl food and water here is more important than to find out if there is/was water on mars

[Maniac]

space is great but I think we need answers here on planet earth before we go asking more questions out there...

We need answers here on planet earth? yea right... the rich will get richer and the poor will get poorer...

WTG! Nasa.

[Wanker]

I knew it, Eagler is a closet liberal!

[FUNKED1]

I think unmanned probes like this are the way to go.  Orders of magnitude less expensive than sending people.

[Octavius]

Originally posted by LePaul
Oh geesh guys, a great scientific acheivement to learn about another planet and you guys are well on the way to make it yet another off-topic political rant.  

I second that motion.  go away

Aside from the mass media news, are there any websites out there dedicated to this mission?  Any NASA journals?  I'd like to be informed of specifically what the rover is doing... what its testing, where it's going and stuff - and possibly what it finds, even if it's minor.  Best way is to call someone from the control room - lol