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Orbiter Successfully Enters Orbit
dylanduck writes "Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has slipped safely into orbit - unlike two of the last four orbiters NASA sent to Mars. Remember Mars Climate Orbiter and the mix up between metric and English units? MRO is going to send back 34 trillion bytes of data, more than all the previous missions put together." From the article: "The spacecraft will use a suite of six instruments, including the most powerful camera ever sent to another planet. This will image objects as small as 1-metre wide and should be able to snap pictures of the Spirit and Opportunity rovers. The instruments will track the planet's weather, geology and mineralogy, and even probe about a kilometre beneath its surface to hunt for water."
Thank you for summarizing the summary.
When someone asked why this satellite couldn't be destroyed as the other two alien satellites that were sent by the blue planet inhabitants, K'Breel ordered the traitor's immediate execution. This was the first case of someone being executed for stripping the word "evil" from the phrase "evil blue planet", according to the new law.
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Man, that's a lot of data to be sending back. I just hope those funny little Green Men aren't going to be using up all the space bandwidth looking at porn from Uranus.
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Actually, I don't think that it's so much that it's actually ambiguous as it is that people are willing to nod to some imbiguity to keep their corporate funding sources out of hot water. Simple fact, a megabyte is 1024k, and a kilobyte is 1024 bytes, and a byte is 8 bits. Any other definition only allows you to pass of cheap hardware as if it were a more expensive counterpart.
Well, shoot - I guess you can't hit Mars EVERY time you shoot something at it ... still, an 80% strike rate is pretty good for wartime.
It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.
Hey, at least it's a real unit. They could have reported it in Libraries of Congress or some other useless unit.
I read the internet for the articles.
I went to an English "Public School" and am now over 40. I only know my weight in kilogrammes. We went metric a long time ago!
If only we had. There are miles to go yet before we have fully.....
Orbiter enters orbit.
... marinated ... okay, the joke's falling apart now.
In other news Voyager has gone on a voyage, Mariner has
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and even probe about a kilometre beneath its surface to hunt for water
This was the fallback mission in case it deorbited by mistake.
I, for one, enjoy the relative safety and comfort of my fine tree. I am at a sufficient altitude to avoid the dangers that you "land-lubbers" deal with everyday. I'm shaded from... well, some of the harmful UV rays that you terra-firma-loving peeps drive your cars around on that spew out ozone-depleting compounds. I have fresh air to breathe, and best of all, those SEC officials will never find me out here!
Of course there are some downsides
And you guys complain about the slow 300 baud acoustic-coupled modems back in th.... WHAT THE?!?!
HOLY HELL, there's a goddamn hunter aiming at my carrier pige *BOOM*
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Do you believe that they are going to send back exactly '34 trillion bytes of data'. What, does it blow up after sending '34 trillion bytes of data'.? Maybe some common sense wouldn't go amiss. Obviously it is an approximation, so who give 2 shits whether each kilobyte has 1024 or 1000 bytes in it.
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