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NASA Releases Mars Data for Maestro

Posted by simoniker on from the adagio-con-brio dept.

The Maestro Team writes "The Jet Propulsion Laboratory has released the first Mars data update for Maestro, containing images just received from the Spirit Mars rover. Maestro is the public version of the actual tool used by the mission scientists to operate the rover. You can download Maestro and the latest Mars images from the official Maestro site, and join the developers and other users in #maestro on irc.freenode.net."

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  1. Re:Why are we doing this? by baneblackblade · · Score: 0, Troll
    Will it allow old people to get their meds cheaper?



    I don't like old people. we shouldn't live as long as some of them do, and if we happen to make it that far, it's too bad. both for those who get way out there, and those that they leech off of. leave the old people out on the ice. if you want to start a prozac donation bakesale so the old people die "happy" then go right on ahead. nobody's stopping you.


    ways that benefit the body, the Family of Man?


    you're making an incredible generalization. both incredibly huge, and incredibly dangerous. not only are you including every human being in this, but you're also saying that none of them benefit in any but a completely useless way from this. A lot of people benefit from this. not all of them. not everyone will benefit from feeding ethiopians, either. not everyone benefits from drugging old people. not everyone benefits from oil. you can't benefit EVERYONE in one fell swoop, because not everyone can be grouped into one category like that. even if you were to ration out all the food in the world so everyone got an equal portion of everything, how many people would be benefitted? quite a few, yes, but then again, quite a few would also starve to death, and quite a few would start up an incredibly loud complaint. be more specific: who do you want benefitted, and why doesn't this benefit them?



    Isn't there better ways to spend billions of dollars that benefit mankind in a more substantial way?


    No.


    The International Space Station has so much more promise to benefit our everyday life


    but does it go to mars? can you control it when it's on mars? I didn't think so...


    We should be concentrating on ideas that benefit mankind in tangible ways.


    okay, sure, you've pointed out a problem. good going. how about a solution? what would be better? If you can't come up with a better, "more tangible" benefit, then why are you complaining?

  2. Re:Why are we doing this? by Zakabog · · Score: 0, Troll

    That's like saying "Why try to go to the new world, shouldn't we solve all of englands problems before trying to colonize this new place."