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Mars Rover Opportunity Lands, Opens Second Front

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Posted by Steve 2004-01-26 11:02:02 AM|| || Front Page|| [11130 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 "I am flabbergasted. I am astonished. I am blown away. Opportunity has touched down in an alien and bizarre landscape," said Steven Squyres of Cornell University, the mission?s main scientist. "I still don?t know what we?re looking at."

Um...Mars, sir.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2004-1-26 11:12:22 AM|| 2004-1-26 11:12:22 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 As Europe's first Mars probe remained stubbornly silent, British scientists announced a "last resort" plan Monday of switching off the missing Beagle 2's coColin Pillinger, lead scientist on the Beagle 2 program, said Mars Express passed over the probe's landing site twice over the weekend, but nothing was heard. Pillinger said his team would ask NASA to send a command from its Mars Odyssey orbiter on Tuesday to tell Beagle 2 to switch off its own computer and reload its software. "We are now working on the basis that this is a corrupt system and the only way we might resurrect it is to send such a command and completely reload the software, if it's still alive," Pillinger said at a news conference in London. "Of course, that is a very dangerous command to send because if the thing is AWOL, or even if it's there, it may never respond to it, so it's pretty much a last resort," he added.
Hundreds of high paid scientists, and all you come up with is Ctrl - Alt - Delete?

Posted by Steve 2004-1-26 11:16:34 AM|| 2004-1-26 11:16:34 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Just send the rover from Opportunity out on service calls to the other two probes.

(Yeah, it doesn't have the range. What a pity!)

Posted by Robert Crawford 2004-1-26 11:53:51 AM|| [http://www.kloognome.com] 2004-1-26 11:53:51 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 "We are now working on the basis that this is a corrupt system and the only way we might resurrect it is to send such a command and completely reload the software, if it's still alive," Pillinger said at a news conference in London. "Of course, that is a very dangerous command to send because if the thing is AWOL, or even if it's there, it may never respond to it, so it's pretty much a last resort," he added.

How "dangerous" could it be? The thing isn't responding anyway, so what're the alternatives?

It's sink-or-swim time.

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2004-1-26 12:03:21 PM|| 2004-1-26 12:03:21 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 how long till the lefty loons start saying were tryimg to take over the galaxy and steal its oil?I say build a constellation of space based lasers just to piss them off

Posted by Jon Shep U.K 2004-1-26 12:05:08 PM|| 2004-1-26 12:05:08 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 END U.S. IMPERIALISM AND AGGRESSION ON MARS! THOUSANDS OF MARTIAN CIVILIANS HAVE DIED AS A RESULT OF U.S. BOMBING OF CYDONIA!

Posted by 4thInfVet 2004-1-26 12:40:09 PM|| 2004-1-26 12:40:09 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Look... if you make martian WMD... (neutron x-beam ray guns, and the like...) you have to deal with the consequences.

We're simply fighting to make the inner planets safe for democracy.

Posted by ----------<<<<- 2004-1-26 1:06:32 PM|| 2004-1-26 1:06:32 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 We creating an inner sanctum for peace loving sentinents.

Posted by Shipman 2004-1-26 1:19:41 PM|| 2004-1-26 1:19:41 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 is there oil there too? We NEED oil for the empire

Posted by Jon Shep U.K 2004-1-26 1:32:51 PM|| 2004-1-26 1:32:51 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 The story has been out for days that Bush's Mars plan will provide Haliburton with lucrative space building contracts.

Posted by Anonymous 2004-1-26 2:34:28 PM|| 2004-1-26 2:34:28 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 here it is:
http://www.instapundit.com/archives/013519.php

Posted by Anonymous 2004-1-26 2:39:24 PM|| 2004-1-26 2:39:24 PM|| Front Page Top

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