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  1. Re:"This Moonrock Sponsored by Poland Spring" by efutch · · Score: 1 · on NASA Says Mars Once "Drenched With Water"

    Lego sent a couple of Red Rover astronaut type guy on the rovers...you can check out their "adventures" in Mars here

  2. Re:COMPLETE horseshit. by linoleo · · Score: 1 · on The Real Reason why Spirit Only Sees Red

    ...blah blah blah COLOR CHART blah blah...

    So what do you call this?

    Easy and low-tech, and there's only two possible excuses for this not being noticed by FL. . .

    1. Total incompetence, (which frankly, is entirely possible these days given /.'s slipshod workings.)

    2. The convenience of being able to cover up inconvenient facts with bullshit.

  3. Re:Spirit not that impressive...? by AndroidCat · · Score: 1 · on News from Mars

    It looks okay in Lego with Biff Starling and Sandy Moondust on Mars (Kind of combining two continuing /. stories.) They even have Lego rovers that you can drive by web. I don't suppose they use the Maestro software? A working Lego Mindstorm rover would be cool--with experiment add-on packs. Imagine the probes that would be built by people who had been playing with them since they were kids?

  4. Re:Spirit not that impressive...? by AndroidCat · · Score: 1 · on News from Mars

    It looks okay in Lego with Biff Starling and Sandy Moondust on Mars (Kind of combining two continuing /. stories.) They even have Lego rovers that you can drive by web. I don't suppose they use the Maestro software? A working Lego Mindstorm rover would be cool--with experiment add-on packs. Imagine the probes that would be built by people who had been playing with them since they were kids?

  5. Here is source of "crap" by SuperKendall · · Score: 1 · on Mars Rover Rolls And Turns

    Here you go

    Hopefully you will be at least a little bit taken aback at calling an orphan a "piece of crap".

  6. My name's on Mars, too. by Dan+Crash · · Score: 1 · on Spirit Rover Lands Successfully
    It's no ordinary DVD:

    The DVD is made of silica glass rather than plastic so that it can withstand the high temperatures necessary to sterilize it of Earth microbes before it is sent to the Martian surface. Also, the silica glass has a much longer lifetime than typical commercial DVDs--in fact, the silica glass DVD could last more than 500 years. The DVD will remain on the lander as a time capsule for a future generation.

    The DVD assembly's base, the simulated LEGO bricks, and the central oval are made of machined and anodized aluminum. The aluminum parts are separated from the silica glass DVD with Delrin pads. Delrin is an inflexible polymer that is very tough and heat resistant.

    The entire assembly, which weighs 69 grams, has been subjected to a battery of tests designed to simulate the extreme environmental conditions of the journey to Mars: temperature cycling from 125 to 60 degrees Celsius, exposure to vacuum, high-speed random vibration, and shocks of 4,000 times the acceleration of Earth's gravity.
  7. Re:The icing and the cake by Naomi_the_butterfly · · Score: 1 · on Jodrell Bank Telescope Gets No Signal From Beagle

    I don't find it strange at all that people focus on the landers. to the simple mind, landers are cool. I just hope Spirit and Opportunity make it ok. if those astrobots don't make it, we're all screwed.