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Mars Landers - Opportunity, Bedrock, Aerosmith?
Iphtashu Fitz writes "As was reported last week, the first Mars rover Spirit had some communications problems that the folks at the JPL have finally managed to trace to problems with its flash memory. Reuters is reporting that Opportunity seems to be having some power-related problems, too. It appears a faulty thermostat is turning a heater on overnight without being told to do so. While NASA isn't concerned about the rover overheating, they're exploring the long-term effects of continued power drain on the second rover." The article also notes: "The first three-dimensional, panoramic images beamed back from Opportunity showed an intriguing outcrop of exposed bedrock" - there's now a color version of the same image. Finally, lightwaveman points to the Spaceflight Now status page regarding new priorities for the Mars mission: "The airing of today's Mars rover news conference is being delayed on NASA TV to show the band Aerosmith touring International Space Station Mission Control at Houston's Johnson Space Center."
Those fucking rovers are total pieces of shit. Jesus Christ, can't NASA build anything right anymore? Everything they touch turns into a giant fucking turd. That fucking agency is totally mismanaged. Some heads need to fucking roll, for sure. How many more astronauts need to be turned into plasma before America wakes up and tells NASA to shut it all fucking down. Scrap the shuttle, scrap the Space Station, scrap all of those expensive pieces of shit. Holy fuck, how much does this shit cost a year? And what do we get back from it? Nothing. Tang. Fuck that.
Why the fuck are they wasting time and money fraternizing with a bunch of has-been heroine-addicted rock starts?
Rob Malda is a FUCKHEAD.
Why don't we send HIM to Mars???
The Internet connection would be better!
And your grammar is atrocious. Learn to use an apostrophe.
Nothing like a braindead Texan and his Zionist sidekick to run this once free country into a deficit-reeking pit of war, lost liberty, and the prime exporter of militant Christianity. Vote 3rd party or move to China you bunch of state-loving idiots.
your courage is atrocious, you anonymous "coward"