Posted by
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...
by
locutus_borg
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· Score: 5, Funny
...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?
by
sielwolf
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· Score: 4, Funny
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
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!
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.
Look at those tracks!!
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enjo13
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· Score: 4, Funny
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:Revisit Sojourner!
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mikis
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· Score: 3, Funny
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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· Score: 4, Funny
I don't know... You seem to be pretty stupid, but you still understood it was a joke. I'm not worried.
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
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Typos... that's just how I role.
Beagle to final communication mode
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Inflatable+Hippo
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· Score: 4, Funny
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)
Backwards hazard camera?
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Woutepout
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· Score: 4, Funny
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
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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.
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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!
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.
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.
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
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.
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)
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