Spirit Rover Lands Successfully

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.

Comments

Re:Next on Mars is power

[shadowcabbit]

Do you why they don't use nuclear power, like Voyager 2?

We can barely land the blasted things, and you want to chuck a nuclear reactor with it? Hell, why not send four or five of them and destroy the planet we're trying to colonize before mankind even gets there? I'm not a nuclear scientist but I am fairly certain nuclear plants do not like to be rolled around, jarred, jostled, or plunged into an impact crater.

narcissism

[spiritraveller]

So, just where did they get this idea to call it "spiritrover" huh?

I'm going to sue.

If "Windows" can sue "Lindows", I should be able to sue "spiritrover".

Re:Take that Beagle 2!

[gangien]

depressing? in what? saying we're number 1? damned depressing.. come on don't you ever watch sports? don't you compete? it's a bit of gloating, so what, hopefully the ESA will in turn whoop nasa at something, or the china space agency whatevr tht's called and we can have a three way space race again. I'd love to see that. I'm rather excited.. 4 big space exploration projects in 1 month? wow. It's amazing really.

Re:Ground Zero

[pgilman]

" When we got the signal..."

we get signal?

" it was truely spectacular"

truly

" standing and hugging each other with vigorous congradulations"

congratulations

" I was fortunate enough to be able to congradulate some of the higher ups"

congratulate

" On behalf of all of us"

(if you believe that this imbecile speaks for anyone, you're a fool)

" on MER"

at MER

" I'd like to thank everyone that's supported this mission"...

...who's supported the mission

" especially those slashdotters that have"

who have

" vigorously defended the purpose and existance"

existence

" of mars."

the purpose of mars? are you stupid?

the existence of mars? was there any doubt that mars exists?

" What we are doing is hard, but not impossible, and we will continue to try until we prevail. Today we had what I hope was the first of many victories on mars."

who the fuck are you, george bush? prevail? victories on mars? it's not a war, at least, not yet

Go USA!

[George Walker Bush]

Just goes to show, the US still does it better than you Eurotrash.

Thank you and God bless America.

And on behalf of everyone else

[xX_sticky_Xx]

Shut The Fuck UP!