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Spirit Rover Makes Longest Trip Yet

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the robots-on-another-planet dept.

ivan1011001 writes "Spirit traveled just over 88 feet in an attempt to visit the crater "Bonneville" to look for evidence of water on Mars. Engineers had hoped the rover would travel 164 feet, but Spirit didn't cover the full distance because it spent more time than initially planned studying rocks and soil along the way. This is longer than its earlier PR of 70 feet."

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  1. Spirt has a copy of FIREFOX on it! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
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  2. XBox rules!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    first post!!! you lame assholes... I can post first because my XBox is a american product and my pride in my great country and my great XBox accelerate everything...

    If only they would make games for that bitch... IAve played Metroid Prime and it ruled... I hope M$ will buy those japanese bastards and port Metroid to my great american console system!!!

  3. and the reason that we're spending by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    our money on this is?
    do you know any hungry, out of work, homeless people? sick friends with on health coverage?
    how about your parents in old age, or you in your old age?

    fix our nation first, and then explore the rest of earth. we have no need to go to space.

    negative population growth first, and then zero growth. it will help us all.

    vote democrate in 2004, bush is a corporate whore!

    1. Re:and the reason that we're spending by HarveyBirdman · · Score: -1, Offtopic
      our money on this is?

      My rule is that if you need to ask this, you aren't worth answering.

      do you know any hungry, out of work, homeless people? sick friends with on health coverage?

      No. I've managed my life to the point where I don't have to mix with the riff-raff.

      how about your parents in old age, or you in your old age?

      My parents managed their lives, too, and hence do not need my help other than stopping by once a week to say howdy. As for my old age, I'm currently on track to retire comfortably at 50, and this is having been born into near poverty and only being able to afford a state college.

      fix our nation first, and then explore the rest of earth. we have no need to go to space.

      The human condition is unfixable because most people are too stupid to follow even a basic rational life plan. If we wait for the nation to be "fixed", we'll fester in this stinking mudball until we're eyeball deep in our own shit.

      negative population growth first, and then zero growth. it will help us all.

      Oh, so that's what you meant by "fixed." Will PETA be in charge of that operation?

      Anyway, if *you* volunteer not to breed, I fully support this product and/or service.

      vote democrate in 2004,

      Absolutely LOL! Yeah, the Democrats are real saints. LOL! Fricken' ideologues... such a national treasure...

      bush is a corporate whore!

      Probably, but I fail to see how trading a corporate whore for a government whore is all that enlightened.

      --
      --- Ban humanity.
  4. When I was a little kid.. by Thrakkerzog · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    my aunt called my mom. I decided to answer the phone. She told me to go get my mom, so I started walking outside to get her. Along the way, I started playing with rocks and bugs in the driveway, and completely forgot about my aunt.

    I finally made it over to my mom, and told her that there was a phone call for her. It was 45 minutes later, though!

    I know this has nothing to do with the mars lander, but it reminded me of something silly I did when I was a toddler.