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michael
on from the look-both-ways-before-crossing-the-street dept.
Irishman writes "It looks like the Spirit rover has finally left the womb and is rolling free on the Martian surface. Space.com has the full story and some great pictures." NASA also has photos, straight from their fake set in Hollywood where they produce all the "space" footage.
For $400 Million...
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locutus_borg
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...It better roll one way or another.
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It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them. - Alfred Adler -
Who let the jugs out?
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sielwolf
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JPL engineers played Baha Men's "Who Let the Dogs Out" in the control room as they watched new images confirming that the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit successfully rolled off its lander platform early Thursday morning.
Oh for the love of... Really, we didn't need to hear this. I hope that didn't get caught on film because that's the sort of thing that resurfaces at retirement parties.;p
-- What is music when you despise all sound?
Re:Who let the jugs out?
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rupert2000
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I think either 'Take me to the River' or 'Bitch is Back' would have been better choices.
Re:Who let the jugs out?
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Anonymous Coward
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"Who Let the Dogs Out" == We're better than Beagle!
About what might happen should the Martian government get their hands on the rover. They will most likely have to destroy it to cover up the fact that their planet has been visited by machines from another planet. Let's just hope we can get a picture of their leaders before they disconnect the cameras!
dr4m4 0n m4r5...
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Deraj+DeZine
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So if these space photos are made on a set (or out in a desert), where would all that money that Bush just announced he's giving NASA go? In my opinion, NASA should forget cameras and go for full-on fraudulent Mars cinematography. Complete with a full cast of Martian characters, leading up to a climax where the main character has to make a decision about whether his best friend lives... or DIES. *cue the tear*
His friend is a talking pie.
-- True story.
Jennifer Trosper is a
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Anonymous Coward
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hottie!
My only question is - when will Playboy come out with a "Women of NASA" issue ?
it's jackass commentary like this that does nothing but perpeptuate bullshit to the masses and misinforms that average (read stupid) american. then the average (read stupid again) american's think these things are a waste of money.
On the contrary it is there to make the Europeans feel better about themselves.
Did you look at those pictures? You can see the curve of it's surface from the surface. I dunno, I don't think life could have existed on a planet that small.
JPL engineers played Baha Men's "Who Let the Dogs Out" in the control room as they watched new images confirming that the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit successfully rolled off its lander platform early Thursday morning.
A bunch of sweaty scientists dancing around the lab to "who let the dogs out"? Was Steve Ballmer there?
I remember someone back a couple of years was caught in JPL's computers. Maybe there are some backdoors still?::)
Shotgun first drive! Of course I realize it's not like an RC car, but I can imagine right?
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taking over the world, we are.
Re:the waiting is over ---but
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Brento
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Why not get some very small solid rocket engines and put them facing in all directions on this thing.....They are also pretty cheap.
Great idea! Duct tape $5 bottle rockets all over the rover! That'll definitely decrease its chances of failure. Brilliant!
You wouldn't happen to work in the European Space Agency, would you?
-- What's your damage, Heather?
OH shit...
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Anonymous Coward
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that is hardcore!
Look at those tracks!!
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enjo13
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They've really stumbled onto something interesting. The martian soil in this area appears to have a really strange consistency... they've talked about it before, it looks like mud...
I hope it doesn't get stuck, it'd suck to have to call a tow truck (or a martian redneck with a winch) to get it out:)
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Re:Look at those tracks!!
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Anonymous Coward
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Sure, AAA would cover this, but only the first 25 miles are free. After that it's $5 per mile!
(and on a multi-day tow, they'll probably charge you for gas and meals!)
Re:Revisit Sojourner!
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mikis
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Nah, just wait long enough and it will return itself to Earth to look for it's Creator;)
Re:Nice Article Summary...
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Chris+Burke
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I don't know... You seem to be pretty stupid, but you still understood it was a joke. I'm not worried.
Need a new one ....
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taniwha
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if they are going to do mars and the moon they will need a moon set and a mars one - mind you they could use the same one if they expanded it a bit and different filters on the camera so long as they just never filmed the 2 things at the same time. Better yet use identical rovers/landing equipment in both places - 'to save money' then they could just timeshare.
Mind you area 5 is surrounded by lots of nice desert - rip out the sagebrush and only film at night (everyone knows it's always night on the moon, we've seen the pictures...) and you could have a really big new set.... I bet Haliburton could do that for what 2-3Trillion?
F) It has a GIANT SPRING, to pogo itself away from any Little Green Men if they come near it.
G) In the event of Giant Spring failure, the last resort is the Plasma Cannon.
H) In the event the Plasma Cannon initiates full scale interplantary war, it activates the Omega 13 device, reverses time, and destroys itself before it deploys the Plasma Cannon.
I) In the event of the Time Reversal Self Destruction Manuevor still incurring the Martian overlord's wrath, it sends a signal to me, so that I can get the f*ck off the planet with my immediate family, to settle in Alpha Centurai.
Thank you for the toy RC car. To think, it only took you 4.55 billion of your years to get it to us! However, now that you have proven yourselves almost capable of inter-planetary traveling, we must send our Biker Mice to crush you like the bugs you are. Starting with Tim Burton.
Signed,
Supreme Commander of Mars
They should have named the rover "Egg", then we could have headlines such as, "Egg Rolls On Mars!" People would glance that and say, "It *is* true: you can buy Chinese food ANYWHERE."
Include a S.A.S.E.
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Anonymous Coward
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Well, if they had just thought to include a self-addressed stamped envelope, I'm sure the Martians would have been kind enough to return it!
Geez. These NASA guys are so focused on their so-called "rocket science" that they don't have any common sense.
The set isn't in Hollywood..
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s0l0m0n
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You insensitive clod!
Didn't you ever wonder what Area 51 was really for?
Beagle to final communication mode
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Inflatable+Hippo
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After approximately 25 sols Beagle 2 will go into it's final communication mode SHM1 (Spell Help Mode 1). In this mode it will shred it's own parachute and lay the pieces out across the martian surface to spell the world "HELP".
Calculations suggest that each letter will be approximately 4-6 pixels across, easily discernable from the Mars Express orbiter.
High winds may hamper this last ditch attempt for Beagle 2 to communicate.
(I'm allowed to laugh, some of my tax money is spread all over the red planet)
Oh, you mean the Spirit rover. For a second there I thought that we Americans had ditched "freedom" for "spirit" in our anti-French food terminology.
Re:Revisit Sojourner!
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CrazyTalk
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So you're saying it had an iPod battery?
RIAA
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Anonymous Coward
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I sure hope they own the CDs for all these songs they play. Would hate the RIAA to get wind of this and come shut the whole thing down.
Re:Revisit Sojourner!
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Creepy
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Actually, that's why NASA launches over the ocean. If something does fail, it falls into an unpopulated area (i.e. miles of water).
...and raises Godzilla!
Re:Revisit Sojourner!
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Anonymous Coward
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that's why you install wiper-blade wipers.
Backwards hazard camera?
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Woutepout
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Why does this thing have a "backwards looking hazard identification camera"? Are they that confident about finding life on Mars that they expect to be fleeing from it?
-- "Some people have got a mental horizon of radius zero and call it their point of view." - David Hilbert
Re:Revisit Sojourner!
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Anonymous Coward
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> You'll love this guy. He still hasn't taken me up on my "nuclear challenge". I wonder why?;-)
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...It better roll one way or another.
- It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them. - Alfred Adler -
JPL engineers played Baha Men's "Who Let the Dogs Out" in the control room as they watched new images confirming that the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit successfully rolled off its lander platform early Thursday morning.
;p
Oh for the love of... Really, we didn't need to hear this. I hope that didn't get caught on film because that's the sort of thing that resurfaces at retirement parties.
What is music when you despise all sound?
JPL engineers played Baha Men's "Who Let the Dogs Out" in the control room
Way to go and really enforce those nerd stereotypes. Come on guys.
NASA also has photos, straight from their fake set in Hollywood where they produce all the "space" footage.
That is such a big lie!
Those sets have been moved to India.
Casual Games/Downloads
...operation DesertBeagle.
Dear Great Britain,
;)
This is a picture of Mars, hope you like it!
Wishing you were here,
The US of A
Oh come on, laugh, it's not meant to be an insult!
About what might happen should the Martian government get their hands on the rover. They will most likely have to destroy it to cover up the fact that their planet has been visited by machines from another planet. Let's just hope we can get a picture of their leaders before they disconnect the cameras!
The set was moved to Area 51 a number of decades ago.
[ObRant]Sheesh! If you're not going to pay attention to the facts, then why bother posting???[/ObRant]
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That third rock to the left is mine! I want to name it after me... Anonymous Coward.
Mars is the god of war, does it get any more manly than that?
Whereas Saturn... pfft. Saturnalia -> dancing around naked in the woods. Gay, QED.
Bander
What we need more of is science!
Hey, wasn't that O.J. Simpson running behind Spirit?!?!?!?!
see imdb for the uninitiated....
Dump the IRS - http://www.fairtax.org
So if these space photos are made on a set (or out in a desert), where would all that money that Bush just announced he's giving NASA go? In my opinion, NASA should forget cameras and go for full-on fraudulent Mars cinematography. Complete with a full cast of Martian characters, leading up to a climax where the main character has to make a decision about whether his best friend lives... or DIES. *cue the tear*
His friend is a talking pie.
True story.
hottie! My only question is - when will Playboy come out with a "Women of NASA" issue ?
that mars is truly round!
it's jackass commentary like this that does nothing but perpeptuate bullshit to the masses and misinforms that average (read stupid) american. then the average (read stupid again) american's think these things are a waste of money.
On the contrary it is there to make the Europeans feel better about themselves.
Did you look at those pictures? You can see the curve of it's surface from the surface. I dunno, I don't think life could have existed on a planet that small.
JPL engineers played Baha Men's "Who Let the Dogs Out" in the control room as they watched new images confirming that the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit successfully rolled off its lander platform early Thursday morning.
A bunch of sweaty scientists dancing around the lab to "who let the dogs out"? Was Steve Ballmer there?
Where's my lobbyist? Right here.
You can actually see the curvature of the planet! Does The Little Prince live there?
I keep waiting for a picture that looks like mom in a spinning class.
I've got a better idea. What if we build a large wooden rabbit...
Typos... that's just how I role.
I remember someone back a couple of years was caught in JPL's computers. Maybe there are some backdoors still? ::)
Shotgun first drive! Of course I realize it's not like an RC car, but I can imagine right?
-- taking over the world, we are.
Why not get some very small solid rocket engines and put them facing in all directions on this thing.....They are also pretty cheap.
Great idea! Duct tape $5 bottle rockets all over the rover! That'll definitely decrease its chances of failure. Brilliant!
You wouldn't happen to work in the European Space Agency, would you?
What's your damage, Heather?
that is hardcore!
They've really stumbled onto something interesting. The martian soil in this area appears to have a really strange consistency... they've talked about it before, it looks like mud...
I hope it doesn't get stuck, it'd suck to have to call a tow truck (or a martian redneck with a winch) to get it out:)
Turn s60 photos into awesome videos with mScrapbook for all S60 3rd edition phones!
Nah, just wait long enough and it will return itself to Earth to look for it's Creator ;)
I don't know... You seem to be pretty stupid, but you still understood it was a joke. I'm not worried.
The enemies of Democracy are
Mind you area 5 is surrounded by lots of nice desert - rip out the sagebrush and only film at night (everyone knows it's always night on the moon, we've seen the pictures ...) and you could have a really big new set .... I bet Haliburton could do that for what 2-3Trillion?
F) It has a GIANT SPRING, to pogo itself away from any Little Green Men if they come near it.
..and so on.
G) In the event of Giant Spring failure, the last resort is the Plasma Cannon.
H) In the event the Plasma Cannon initiates full scale interplantary war, it activates the Omega 13 device, reverses time, and destroys itself before it deploys the Plasma Cannon.
I) In the event of the Time Reversal Self Destruction Manuevor still incurring the Martian overlord's wrath, it sends a signal to me, so that I can get the f*ck off the planet with my immediate family, to settle in Alpha Centurai.
J)
Thank you for the toy RC car. To think, it only took you 4.55 billion of your years to get it to us! However, now that you have proven yourselves almost capable of inter-planetary traveling, we must send our Biker Mice to crush you like the bugs you are. Starting with Tim Burton. Signed, Supreme Commander of Mars
Typos... that's just how I role.
They should have named the rover "Egg", then we could have headlines such as, "Egg Rolls On Mars!" People would glance that and say, "It *is* true: you can buy Chinese food ANYWHERE."
Table-ized A.I.
Well, if they had just thought to include a self-addressed stamped envelope, I'm sure the Martians would have been kind enough to return it!
Geez. These NASA guys are so focused on their so-called "rocket science" that they don't have any common sense.
You insensitive clod!
Didn't you ever wonder what Area 51 was really for?
After approximately 25 sols Beagle 2 will go into it's final communication mode SHM1 (Spell Help Mode 1). In this mode it
will shred it's own parachute and lay the pieces out across the martian surface to spell the world "HELP".
Calculations suggest that each letter will be approximately 4-6 pixels across, easily discernable from the Mars Express orbiter.
High winds may hamper this last ditch attempt for Beagle 2 to communicate.
(I'm allowed to laugh, some of my tax money is spread all over the red planet)
straight from their fake set in Hollywood where they produce all the "space" footage
/. stories?
When did Michael Moore start submiting
[there is no way of cleaning the solar panels] Bullshit. An arm with a brush attached would do nicely.
Seems even nerds' virtual extensions don't wanna bathe either.
Table-ized A.I.
Oh, you mean the Spirit rover. For a second there I thought that we Americans had ditched "freedom" for "spirit" in our anti-French food terminology.
So you're saying it had an iPod battery?
I sure hope they own the CDs for all these songs they play. Would hate the RIAA to get wind of this and come shut the whole thing down.
that's why you install wiper-blade wipers.
Why does this thing have a "backwards looking hazard identification camera"? Are they that confident about finding life on Mars that they expect to be fleeing from it?
"Some people have got a mental horizon of radius zero and call it their point of view." - David Hilbert
> You'll love this guy. He still hasn't taken me up on my "nuclear challenge". I wonder why? ;-)
:>
Maybe he started early and got a bit unlucky