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Explore Mars with Maestro
The Maestro Team writes "NASA has released Maestro, a public version of the primary software tool used by scientists to operate the Mars Exploration Rovers from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Anyone can download Maestro for free from mars.telascience.org and use it to follow along with the rovers' progress during the mission. You can use Maestro to view pictures from Mars in 2D and 3D and create simplified rover activity plans. During the mission, updates will be released for Maestro containing the latest images from Mars."
may teh frist pust be with you!
Compare the installation instructions... Windows : Run the installer. Done. Macintosh : Install Java. Run Maestro installer. Done. Linux / Solaris : Run some cryptic commandline. Run another cryptic command line. Run a third cryptic command line. Still not done ... there are more instructions in the installer to follow.
I've been using Maestro for hours; poor non-windows users are still trying to work out what the hell Java is or what order the switches for tar have to go in.
the Terrato institute for astronomical sciences (which contracted with NASA on many occasions) has been kind enough to provide a download mirror for the Linux version of Maestro. It can be acquired here
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Yes, I'm not lying. It contains a virus that will email your root password to partymaster2004@hotmail.com. It also changes your KDE wallpaper to some porn image!
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While you were playing with Maestro, I was humping your mom!
You suck!
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Does this worry anybody else?
It's great that the government is starting to buy into the open-source software mentality, but is this really a good idea? I mean, if they open the source to satellite protocols then it can allow the terrorists access to our spy satellites and our space probes. If they get access to those they can use the satellites to spy on US! and make it so we can't spy back on them, and also they can use the probes to contact other races in the universe! We have a hard enough time with them as is, let's not give them an added advantage. I don't want our hard earned tax dollars on the mars rover used to contact aliens so they can kill us like terrorists. That's not a good idea. NOT AT ALL MISTER BUSH! NOTICE HOW I DIDN'T SAY PRESIDENT YOU UNELECTED WORM! I can't believe they would be so flippant about the nation's security.
NASA has become too lax on security. They really need to work on that -- maybe we should institute an "office of space security" to lead and watch over NASA. Especially with the Chinese in space -- with other rogue countries soon to follow -- the heavens are about to become the new battlefield. We need to be prepared.
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Retard, lol...if you're gonna bash someone or something, at least get your spelling & grammar correct.