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Offline LWACE

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« on: January 22, 2004, 02:57:40 PM »
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3855168/

Damn, little green men found out we were thinkin bout puttin a wal-mart there.:(
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Offline Eagler

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ya think it'd work forever?
« Reply #1 on: January 22, 2004, 03:07:33 PM »
didn't they use???


hope they got their monies worth...
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Re: ya think it'd work forever?
« Reply #2 on: January 22, 2004, 03:08:25 PM »
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hope they got their monies worth...


Don't you mean our monies worth?

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« Reply #3 on: January 22, 2004, 03:15:31 PM »
Is it coincidence that contact was lost just before it was supposed to start cutting into a "rock"?  What if that rock isn't an inanimate object, but a form of life that was asleep?  Didn't anybody think this thing through?

{translated from Martian}
"Zzzzz. Eh?  What's this? Oh, its a toy. Ouch! Stop that!" BLAMMO!

{translated from Earthling English}

"This is a serious problem. This is an extremely serious anomaly," project manager Pete Theisinger said.

"It's not clear there is one cause ... that would explain the observables we're seeing," deputy project manager Richard Cook said.
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Offline Dune

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« Reply #4 on: January 22, 2004, 03:18:34 PM »
Which means that they finally found it and unplugged the damn thing.  Just like all the other landers.
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« Reply #5 on: January 22, 2004, 03:18:49 PM »
Last photo taken by Spirit:

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Offline Eagler

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Re: Re: ya think it'd work forever?
« Reply #6 on: January 22, 2004, 03:33:15 PM »
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Don't you mean our monies worth?

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yep almost $900,000,000 worth ...
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Re: ya think it'd work forever?
« Reply #7 on: January 22, 2004, 04:51:35 PM »
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didn't they use???


Yes, but sadly they also used:
"Where would you like to stop working today?" ;)
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« Reply #8 on: January 22, 2004, 05:14:30 PM »




The pic they didnt want ya to see .
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« Reply #9 on: January 22, 2004, 05:23:20 PM »
Earthling, you have made me very angry!
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Offline Fishu

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« Reply #10 on: January 22, 2004, 05:27:16 PM »
Hopefully they get it to work again... it'd be a pity if it would quit this soon after the brits attempt seemingly failed.

Perhaps too many people were putting crap down on the brits for their failure, unaware of the pending irony..
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Offline kj714

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« Reply #11 on: January 22, 2004, 05:55:47 PM »
Yep another 1/2 billion worth of junk on Mars. When do they get real about this? What a freaking waste.
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Offline Eagler

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« Reply #12 on: January 22, 2004, 05:56:12 PM »
don't they have a sister spirit landing there saturday?
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« Reply #13 on: January 22, 2004, 05:57:50 PM »
This is the last picture the Spirit transmitted back to Earth:

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Offline Chairboy

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« Reply #14 on: January 22, 2004, 06:24:18 PM »
The other part of the mission (it has two landers) is landing on Saturday.

KJ714, Mars is hard.  Many probes from different countries have been lost enroute to Mars.

You want to increase your chances?  Send humans.  A robot might not be smart enough to deal with a small problem, but a human is.  Look at the first moon landing, their automatic landing profile put them into the middle of a field of boulders.  Armstrong saw that and took control to steer elsewhere.
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