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Spirit Sends Debug Information to Earth
gfilion writes "NASA has released a
press release that says: 'Shortly before noon, controllers were surprised to receive a relay of data from Spirit via the Mars Odyssey orbiter. Spirit sent 73 megabits at a rate of 128 kilobits per second.'" They've been having communications troubles with Spirit since Wednesday, so it's good to hear from it again, even if the data is just filler.
128 kBits/sec! Quite a bit up from the ealire 100Bit/sec. Too bad Mars is too far from the next CO to qualify for DSL
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...but the ping times suck. Can you imagine playing Quake over that kind of link?
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Spirit sent 73 megabits at a rate of 128 kilobits per second.
:)
Pretty damn scary that that's faster then most pr0n download's via Kazza...
shutdown -r now
&^@%$@ WJS&&# D&@#&&# DD
im sorry dave i can't do that
&*A^S^ DJHDHSHA ASHHASD&@^%@@ DD&D^^@
Suspend mode never really works after a while, does it?
Spirit Sends Debug Information to Earth
A Fatal Exception 0E has occurred at 0028:C0231810 in VXD VMM(0D) + 00001810
Cool!
I've noticed that everyone who is for abortion has already been born - Ronald Reagan
The little green men finally got thier hands on it... and haven't quite figured out how to put it back together again.
128 kbps over 35 million miles... looks like we'll need another benchmark to replace the station wagon full of DAT tapes
one better than mcleodeight
At 73 megabits, that's a lot of BSOD. Oops. Sorry. Red Screens of Death with Spirit being on Mars and all.
Well, there's spam egg sausage and spam, that's not got much spam in it.
Did the "filler data" look anything like this?
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Doesn't Spirit's twin, Opportunity, start it's landing tomorrow?
It's probably some bizarre licensing issue for the OS causing it to shut down as it's detected that NASA are trying to run two copies at the same time.
Kind of like Beagle 2's problems caused by the transmissions being intercepted by the RIAA as they file a lawsuit against Colin Pillinger for offering illegal music downloads from Mars.
Fortunately, the cause of the blackout has been located and will be corrected soon.
Pesky Martians! :-)
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It appears that while editing the crontab of the rover to send spam, the script-kiddie accidentally added a shutdown -r 24m . "Having the rover send spam was a great idea! When people ping the X-Originating IP, they'll surely timeout!!"
Maybe it's just scared of the dark, and they forgot to pack its teddy bear?
Bet they're sick looking at ScanDisk running...
"I can't swim.. I CaN'T sWim ... I cannot swim... I can't swim.. I can't swim.. I can't swim.. I can't swim.. I can't swim.. I can't swim.. sdf@#$@#$@#$
This is my sig.
rover: 128kbps
most mp3's: 128kbps
COINCIDENCE?
i think not.
...European, constantly rebooting, battery draining overlords. Now we know Beagle 2 was not lost but was in transit to Gusev crater. It took a little time to silently creep up behind spirit. If we had a high-enough resolution camera we would see that damn dog continuously poking at the rover, pressing our reset button.
Cheers to the European engineers who caught us with our pants downs and jeers to the American engineers who thought our little rover needed an external reset button for some reason.
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Sigs are bad for your health.
too bad it seems to be 95% crapola.
Sounds like the internet to me....
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Great the probe has a faster connection than I have. Now I've got to go live on mars
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I would love to see the length of pringles cans used to make the WiFi antenna to get that signal back to earth.
you remember, the Apollo 13, the one with Tom Hanks? Where the austronauts believe that their transmission is watched by the viewers on Earth but in fact all TV networks refused the transmission, stating that NASA made flights to the Moon as exciting as trips to Pittsburgh (or something of this kind)?
This is what is happenning people, the new in reality TV - our own Mars Rover - The Ultimate Survivor. The Opportunity will be landing today, so the audience should be able to vote for which rover is going to be kicked out of the show.
The Drama, The Excitement, The Unknonw, The Sex... oh, wait!
You can't handle the truth.
that it is not Java serialized objects they are receiving to debug...
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Gamingmuseum.com: Give your 3D accelerator a rest.
I understand NASA was in a tight budget situation, but overclocking a Martian Planet robot was probably not such a good idea.
Sig it.
It won't to go sleep despite two direct commands?
Ever heard of dog years, i.e., seven for every human year?
I think we just found the rate of "spirit years," because this is clearly just a rebellious adolescent rover.
All the way out at Mars, they get 4 times the bandwidth I can get here in New Jersey... But the content isn't any better :-)
When the last lightminute is no problem but the last mile is?
NASA's Spirit rover did not go to sleep today even after ground controllers sent commands twice for it to do so.
It looks like NASA is experiencing a common parenting problem, I suggest something like this for the rocket scientists
Everything will be ok once low tide in the Gusav Sea occurs.
using IANANE like it's an established acronym just makes you look stupid.
Or inane.
60 reboots is nothing, the engineers just forgot to turn off Automatic Updates...
OK, which one of you posted the URL to Spirit's onboard webserver on Slashdot???
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Do you really think Spirit and Beagle II were sent to Mars to gather scientific data?
WRONG!
It's about beeing the interstellar robot fighting champion, you fools! Geeks from NASA and ESA are just sending battle bots to Mars in an absurd attempt to waste European and American taxpayers' money.
I mean, think about it! First, Spirit kicked Beagle II's ass, and the guys from NASA already celebrated their victory. But now, it seems that a domestic contestant gave Spirit a heavy beating on wednesday; ergo its problems since then.
maybe spirit is slashdotted!
Ahh! So you're saying that while the Spirit is willing, the flash is weak?
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
Why waste what we could do for people now?
I couldn't have said it better. Instant gratification for the masses, as opposed to solid foundations for the future. That's the exact problem I'm speaking of...
Your rover Spirit is in trouble, do you want to:
a) Ford the crater
b) Suck the poison
c) Reduce rations to meager
d) Go hunting
How about red screen of death jokes?
Of course not. I bet Bob's Electronics Boutique has got just the right parts. Piece of PCB, a blue LED, duct tape, a goat... You mention it, they got it.
Hate me!
In an act of neighbourly admiration the three-fingered Martians are repeatedly saluting the technological prowess of the Earthlings...
while sco {
wget -O
}
How brutal is it that the connection from Mars is faster than the dialup-only available in NW Ontario? :-(
What does it mean to wake out of a dream
and be wearing someone else's shorts?
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Sorry, couldn't resist.
Les Miserables Volume 1 now up with my reading of
Because its stupid.
Spirit is on fucking Mars and I'm stuck here in the boondocks of Earth and I still only get 56k.
Damn it.