Spirit Rover Lands Successfully

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Spirit Rover Lands Successfully

Posted by michael on Saturday January 3, 2004 @05:05PM from the airbags-save-lives dept.

So, as I write this, the latest word is: the Spirit rover has landed and NASA has received a signal indicating it landed right-side up (so it shouldn't have any problems in the unfolding process) and will shortly be retracting the protective airbags which kept it from splattering all over the countryside. Y'all can fill in later news in the comments below. There's a nice site with up-to-the-minute text updates.

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Re:Take that Beagle 2! by Attaturk · 2004-01-03 17:24 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Don't mod that up ffs. :(
Re:IDIOT by jlaxson · 2004-01-03 17:32 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Woot, my first freak. Thanks, been waiting a while for one.

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Re:When you need to get something done: turn to US by benna · 2004-01-03 18:02 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Well i guess you missed the point. I said this really should all be sepperate from politics. However, if you want to get into that. I really don't get my information from the people like michael moore or al frankin. Really i think they are funny but not where you find out whats really going on. People like noam chomsky and howard zinn are the people I listen to.

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Re:Production Line by b1t+r0t · 2004-01-03 18:04 · Score: 0, Offtopic

it would be nice if L-Mart can start a production line of this vehicle to be loaded with different instruments for different countries
I'm waiting for the sport edition with chrome wheels, tail wing, and Type-R stickers.

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Re:Take that Beagle 2! by gangien · 2004-01-03 18:14 · Score: 0, Offtopic

wow ... no response for your obvious superior intellectual ability. I suppose Mr. Malda is a complete incompetent moron then, I mean he has only created one of the most popular sites on the web. Not to mention the audience he has.. wow. What a freaking dumbass.
Re:Production Line by red+floyd · 2004-01-03 18:28 · Score: 0, Offtopic

t would be nice if L-Mart can start a production line

Is that one better or one worse than K-Mart?

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You're converted alright... by djupedal · 2004-01-03 18:52 · Score: 0, Offtopic

We will be in a neverending series of 9/11 attacks just like other countries in the middle east if we don't stop them.

There is no proof that the US faced this kind of threat. Terrorism is routine (so are headaches and car crashes), yes, but doomsday? ...no. You weren't around for the Bay of Pigs, were you? The world didn't end in a mushroom cloud at the hands of the Soviets, and it won't end as the result of terrorism. Bush Govt. spending is the goal, and your wallet is the only thing being threatened.

You've bought into the biggest lie of this century.

You're simply reflecting the kind of self-rationalizing chicken little mindset that says more about your reading material and ability to secure a personal opinion, than it does about your ability to postulate world peace and security.
1. Re:You're converted alright... by Cat_Byte · 2004-01-03 20:22 · Score: 0, Offtopic
  
  Watch the news. Any source you wish. The terrorist bombers who don't like another gov't are a neverending supply of suicide bombers killing innocents. It's not buying into something. It's paying attention. Something you really should do. Only Bush bashers are saying this right now so don't buy into what they are saying. These terrorists aren't a hoax or whatever. They are real. Tens of thousands have died in recent history. To call that a chicken little mindset is not only naive but disgusting that you approve of it.
  
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2. Re:You're converted alright... by fucksl4shd0t · 2004-01-04 04:27 · Score: 0, Offtopic
  
  Watch the news. Any source you wish. The terrorist bombers who don't like another gov't are a neverending supply of suicide bombers killing innocents. It's not buying into something. It's paying attention. Something you really should do.
  And why are those bombers attacking americans? Assuming for the moment that they are, although they usually target Israel. How did Israel get there? Through US involvement. What about the last 70 years or so of western exploitation of the middle east? For most of the 20th century American and European governments put a lot of energy, time, and money into exploiting the fanatics in the middle east and encouraging them to act crazy.
  There was a rash of airplane hijackings in the 70s and 80s. 9/11 doesn't even compare to what was going on back then, because it was more or less an isolated incident that didn't reflect a pattern.
  The question that needs to be answered is: Do we have the right to go into other countries, raise discontent, push out their governments replacing them with satellite dictatorships, and then go back in with war and death and destruction to oust those dictators? What is our moral ground for what we have done in the Middle East?
  The answer: It is the same moral ground for what we did in America during what's now referred to as "the indian wars". Yep. None at all. It's American Imperialism at its worst. You can buy into it all you want, but you're taking the irresponsible way out by disregarding all that we have done in the middle east to breed this situation.
  
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Re:When you need to get something done: turn to US by RichardX · 2004-01-03 21:50 · Score: 0, Offtopic

What a shame that a thread on a great scientific achievement of interest and benefit to the whole world has to turn into Yet Another Nationalistic Thread. That's Slashdot for you these days though.

Anyways..

will be in a neverending series of 9/11 attacks just like other countries in the middle east if we don't stop them

That's quite a dramatic claim you're making there, especially considering there hasn't been a "9/11" since.. well.. 9/11, as it happens. Now would that be due to extreme dilligence on the part of the security forces (remember to watch out for those almanac toting terrorists), or for some other reason..?

Unfortunately our world of seperate church & state can't comprehend the world they live in. Church is everything there.

Okay, this is not a troll.. honestly.. I promise. I'll try to be as gentle as possible here. America is not the greatest country to hold up as being an example of church and state seperation. Sure. On the books it's all seperate, but you just ask Roy "Roy's Rock" Moore, or any of the similarly fanatical, or indeed George "Atheists are not American citizens" Bush. Or indeed anyone who has to take the pledge of allegiance to the United States flag.

It's a PROVEN FACT Iraq was pursuing these weapons.

I can go one better than that. It's a SCIENTIFICALLY PROVEN FACT that writing things in caps doesn't necessarily make them true.
Perhaps you could cite some sources for these facts? Because all I seem to see is a big absence of any WMD's, very little in the way of potential development platforms for WMD programs, and what was found was insubstantial to the point of being inconsequential. As for scientists - which scientists have you been listening to? because everything I've heard from them has been stating that there were no WMD programs.

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