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Mars Odyssey Begins Overtime

Posted by timothy on from the time-and-a-half dept.

thhamm writes "NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter begins working overtime today after completing a prime mission that discovered vast supplies of frozen water, ran a safety check for future astronauts, and mapped surface textures and minerals all over Mars, among other feats. An extended Mission until 2006 has been approved, and I hope it will last that long, maybe doing more safety checks for astronauts :)"

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  4. Those damn guerilla marketers at Nike! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Nike is the goddess of victory:
    For the facelift, the first for a summer games in 76 years, organisers asked artists to submit proposals that included two distinctly Greek elements: a depiction of Nike, the goddess of victory, and the Panathinaikos, the horseshoe-shaped stadium in Athens where the first modern Olympic games were held in 1896.
    Can't really keep them out, hehe.

    Ever since the Amsterdam Olympics of 1928, Nike had been shown on the medals, seated on a chariot with a wreath in one hand and an ear of corn in the other, symbolically honouring winning athletes. Next to the goddess was usually a stadium that looked a lot like a Roman amphitheatre - not surprising since the designer was an Italian, Giuseppi Cassioli.
    Wouldn't it be easyer to just print a "swoosh" on those medals ;-)

    Ah, there we have it:

    Her design has a winged, almost angelic Nike boldly swooshing down feet-first from the heavens, delivering the laurel in the Panathinaikos stadium, the all-marble venue for archery and the finish line of the marathon later this month. Her Nike is based on a marble statue by the sculptor Paionios of Chalkidiki from 421 B.C.
    hehe, and all this without paying a single cent of sponsorship to the IOC...
  5. Re:What if Odyssey becomes sentient? by Fizzl · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    What would happen, however, it this made Odyssey sentient?

    What would happen, however, if monkeys flew out of my ass?

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