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Spirit Sends Debug Information to Earth

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the randy-california-not-available-for-comment dept.

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.

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  1. ISDN to mars by UnderAttack · · Score: 5, Funny

    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

    (first post?)

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  2. The data rate is pretty good... by JessLeah · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...but the ping times suck. Can you imagine playing Quake over that kind of link?

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    1. Re:The data rate is pretty good... by feidaykin · · Score: 5, Funny
      ...but the ping times suck. Can you imagine playing Quake over that kind of link?

      Ping matters not to a true master such as myself. You would just have to wait ten minutes to find out that I owned your sorry ass. ;)

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  3. Wow by mbadolato · · Score: 5, Funny

    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... :)

  4. Who to blame it on... by darth_silliarse · · Score: 5, Funny

    Spirit Sends Debug Information to Earth

    A Fatal Exception 0E has occurred at 0028:C0231810 in VXD VMM(0D) + 00001810

    Cool!

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  5. 128 Kilobits by mcleodnine · · Score: 5, Funny

    128 kbps over 35 million miles... looks like we'll need another benchmark to replace the station wagon full of DAT tapes



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  6. Silly Spammers by pardasaniman · · Score: 5, Funny

    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!!"

  7. NASA was trying to hide illegal mp3's on mars by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    rover: 128kbps
    most mp3's: 128kbps
    COINCIDENCE?
    i think not.

  8. I, for one, welcome our... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...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.

  9. It's all done for the TV ratings by roman_mir · · Score: 5, Funny

    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!

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  10. Re:Can low-power corrupt memory? by APDent · · Score: 5, Funny

    using IANANE like it's an established acronym just makes you look stupid.

    Or inane.