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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Bobboau on January 04, 2004, 12:36:08 am

Title: mars probe does _not_ die in a firey plume of destruction
Post by: Bobboau on January 04, 2004, 12:36:08 am

http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/space/01/04/mars.rovers/index.html

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,107316,00.html

http://msnbc.msn.com/ID/3855168/

I thought of makeing a bad put on the name 'spirit' and the fact that I half expected it to explode on impact,
but I guess I'll have to settle for gloating over doing better than Beagle;
os, uhmm, eheim,
haha! we did better than you, we did better than you
:p :p :p

Title: mars probe does _not_ die in a firey plume of destruction
Post by: diamondgeezer on January 04, 2004, 12:51:57 am

On behalf of the ESA, I shake my fist at you, sir

Oh well. This one ought to be more entertaining than Beagle any way...

[EDIT] Golf cart sized, eh? That's a pretty big payload. I never realised that little Sojourner thingy was a prototype for these two bad boys...

Title: mars probe does _not_ die in a firey plume of destruction
Post by: Beowulf on January 04, 2004, 01:08:56 am

We could have men there already.

Title: mars probe does _not_ die in a firey plume of destruction
Post by: diamondgeezer on January 04, 2004, 01:29:49 am

Insightful

Title: mars probe does _not_ die in a firey plume of destruction
Post by: Bobboau on January 04, 2004, 01:39:45 am

were getting images now, no link yet, just watching it on the TV

Title: mars probe does _not_ die in a firey plume of destruction
Post by: diamondgeezer on January 04, 2004, 01:52:57 am

I demand a streaming webcast from the surface of Mars

Title: mars probe does _not_ die in a firey plume of destruction
Post by: Bobboau on January 04, 2004, 01:55:34 am

you know, I don't see why they couldn't, just have all data frome the probe avalable as soon as it's receved

Title: mars probe does _not_ die in a firey plume of destruction
Post by: NeoHunter on January 04, 2004, 06:37:14 am

...because they wanted to keep the good ones for themselves?

Or maybe it just takes time to find the nice ones and then more time for the media to put it up in the newspapers and Internet and the news on TV.

Patience, my young Padawan.:p

Title: mars probe does _not_ die in a firey plume of destruction
Post by: karajorma on January 04, 2004, 06:40:12 am

You fools! :rolleyes:

It's cause it takes time to photshop out all the martian skyscrapers! :lol:

Title: mars probe does _not_ die in a firey plume of destruction
Post by: Sheepy on January 04, 2004, 08:44:00 am

lol

Title: mars probe does _not_ die in a firey plume of destruction
Post by: vyper on January 04, 2004, 09:48:50 am

They've finally found bin Laden and are covering it up. :lol:

Title: mars probe does _not_ die in a firey plume of destruction
Post by: Sandwich on January 04, 2004, 04:48:12 pm

Klatuu Barada Nikto

Title: Re: mars probe does _not_ die in a firey plume of destruction
Post by: Krackers87 on January 05, 2004, 12:46:25 am

Quote

Originally posted by Bobboau

I thought of makeing a bad put on the name 'spirit' and the fact that I half expected it to explode on impact,
but I guess I'll have to settle for gloating over doing better than Beagle;
os, uhmm, eheim,
haha! we did better than you, we did better than you
:p :p :p

WOOT!

Pwnage!

Title: mars probe does _not_ die in a firey plume of destruction
Post by: Ace on January 05, 2004, 01:51:39 am

Quote

Originally posted by vyper
They've finally found bin Laden and are covering it up. :lol:

...and the Martian invasion was supposed to be a secret!

Title: mars probe does _not_ die in a firey plume of destruction
Post by: Setekh on January 05, 2004, 04:37:30 am

Just a little step closer. Offworld colonies, bring it on. :)

Title: mars probe does _not_ die in a firey plume of destruction
Post by: diamondgeezer on January 05, 2004, 05:22:09 am

Ah-ha! Piccies (http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/all/spirit.html)!

Took their bloody time...

Title: mars probe does _not_ die in a firey plume of destruction
Post by: Bobboau on January 05, 2004, 11:04:59 am

is it just me or has NASA's art department gotten a LOT better over the last year or two (in regards to there CG animations)

Title: mars probe does _not_ die in a firey plume of destruction
Post by: Flipside on January 06, 2004, 01:34:44 pm

LOL Ah well, Well done NASA! I guess we asked for it really, our Space Program is barely beyond the Scrapheap Challenge stage :wtf:

Title: mars probe does _not_ die in a firey plume of destruction
Post by: karajorma on January 06, 2004, 04:30:22 pm

THat's what they should do next time! They built planes for the mega-challenge so why not rockets! :D

Title: mars probe does _not_ die in a firey plume of destruction
Post by: diamondgeezer on January 07, 2004, 01:07:13 am

Oh wow, this (http://images.spaceref.com/news/2004/01.04.04.spirit.3.mov ) is deeply cool :D

Kara - you not keeping track of the X-Prize? Click this (http://www.scaled.com/) :)

Title: mars probe does _not_ die in a firey plume of destruction
Post by: karajorma on January 07, 2004, 06:57:15 am

Yeah. I've been keeping an eye out on that :) It's very interesting. But it's taking a long time where as on Scrapheap Challenge they'd do it in 30 hours bodging time :D