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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."
SUCKAS! damn 20 second rule
Fuck you, Tony Blair!
i think i maybe pregnant but not able to detect it as i have all the symptoms ive recently had a pregnancy test but it came back negative i also have been menstruating on time but everyday i have unprotected sex as i would like a child and on the 17th of february i was supposed to have been ovulating but i did a weeks course of ovulation tests around that time i definetly should have ovulated on the 17th but it never occured what does this mean could you please possibly help me
*whistle* wah wah wah
-ninjaneer
...the problems of long-distance exploration of Mars!
"We've all seen too many body bags and ball sacks." - Henry Kissenger.
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered *BSD community when IDC confirmed that *BSD market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that *BSD has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. *BSD is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict *BSD's future. The hand writing is on the wall: *BSD faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for *BSD because *BSD is dying. Things are looking very bad for *BSD. As many of us are already aware, *BSD continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
FreeBSD is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time FreeBSD developers Jordan Hubbard and Mike Smith only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: FreeBSD is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
OpenBSD leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenBSD. How many users of NetBSD are there? Let's see. The number of OpenBSD versus NetBSD posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetBSD users. BSD/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NetBSD posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of BSD/OS. A recent article put FreeBSD at about 80 percent of the *BSD market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeBSD users. This is consistent with the number of FreeBSD Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeBSD went out of business and was taken over by BSDI who sell another troubled OS. Now BSDI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that *BSD has steadily declined in market share. *BSD is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *BSD is to survive at all it will only be among OS dilettante dabblers. *BSD continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, *BSD is dead.
Fact: *BSD is dying
Sallah: Please, what does it always mean, this... this "Junior"? ...Junior.
Professor Henry Jones: That's his name. [points to himself] Henry Jones... [points to Indy]
Indiana Jones: I like "Indiana."
Professor Henry Jones: We named the *dog* Indiana.
Marcus Brody: May we go home now, please?
Sallah: The dog?! You are named after the dog?!
Indiana Jones: I've got a lot of fond memories of that dog.
Martian wind + Giant-ass soccer ball filled with scientific instruments + astronaut posing for picture = First action scene from Raiders of the Lost Ark
Yeah, the quote is from Last Crusade, but it seems relavant...
Much fewer scientists are religious -- if you compare to the general population.
It's an old observation that if you cherrypick examples from a large data set, you can get good statistics for any thesis. Of course, that is the reason it is considered less than intellectually honest...
Besides, "religious" is hardly a good description of Einstein. Also, Newton was a nut I wouldn't want to mention regarding anything but math... Ah never mind.
(The references are just Googles for things I read years ago and wanted pointers to. Original source is Nature.)
Karma: Excellent (My Karma? I wish...:-( )