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Tumbleweed Rover for Marathon Martian Journeys
An anonymous reader writes "A prototype Mars rover, the Tumbleweed, has completed its 40 mile trek across the Antarctic, driven only by winds even in rough terrain over eight days. While the current rovers are designed for flat, equatorial regions, the tumbleweed design is geared to cover longer distances across what many consider the more interesting and dangerous polar regions on Mars."
(dives for cover)
Every year during my review, I just pray the words "slashdot.org" aren't mentioned.
Rover Bowling!
...a beachball?
The ENIAC Demo Competition
...a rover to probe the deep crevices of Uranus?
:-)
Sorry, had too.
Why tumbleweeds? Next thing you know there are going to be giant beachball tumbleweeds by the thousands infesting that desert we call Mars. They'll be everywhere and future generations will have to see them in bad movies.
+ "Number Six"
I am not a number, I am a FREE MARTIAN!
THINK
An anonymous whore writes "A prototype anal dildo, the Vibrapee, has completed its 40 centimeter trek into the anus, driven only by vibrations even in rough terrain over eight days. While the current dildos are designed for creviced, vaginal regions, the Vibrapee design is geared to cover longer distances across what many consider the more interesting and dangerous hairy regions in the anus."
I keep seeing images of naughty little martian children running around with pins popping these like bubble wrap.
BAP
Aeriouloo: I'm telling Dad! He said not to pop any more of those. You are SO goona get grounded.
Eiixpi: Don't be a tattle tail. I don't see why we can't pop 'em anyway.
Aeriouloo: Dad says if all their rovers pop, the earth people might figure out we're here and try to collonize us.
Eiixpi: What's he afraid of? They can't be that dangerous. Look at their rovers...
Slashdot Syndrome: the sudden, extreme urge to correct someone in order to validate one's self.
I vote for the rover in the form of a McDonald's cheeseburger wrapper. This will blow around across half the planet (at least until Val Kilmer's robot dog finds it and eats it)
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
warning: objects travel faster in metric.
but can a hamster really survive on Mars?
"The problem with internet quotations is that many are not genuine" -Abraham Lincoln
The dreaded Mars Metric Conversion Curse rears its ugly head again.
But wait until you have one of those nasties chasing you down a beach and dragging you back to 'The Village'. If I had a dollar for everytime that happened to me....
Get me off of this island!
Yours Truly,
No. 6
putting the 'B' in LGBTQ+
Shit, they probably never thought of that.
Patrick Doyle
I mod down every jackass who puts his moderation policy in his sig. Oh, wait a sec....
No, no, no.... you've got it all wrong... they're using CANADIAN kilometers, which as we all know are only 2/3 the size of a regular kilometer :-)
Why is it that the proponents of "one nation under God" are so eager to get rid of "liberty and justice for all"?
I predict many fruitless searches hitting my website. :)
Sorry in advance, folks.