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Mars Rover Upgraded
MrShaggy writes "According to a BBC article, NASA is upgrading their MARS rovers. The upgrade will allow the rovers to sift through the pictures of dust-devils, decide which is the most appropriate, send it
back. 'Clouds typically occur in 8-20% of the data collected right now,' Castano said. 'If we could look for a much more extended time and select only those images with clouds then we could increase our understanding of how and when these phenomena form. Similarly with the dust devils.' The article also discusses upgrades to the Mars Odyssey. They plan to make it self-reacting to events on the planet as they are happening."
Maybe they're just doing to apt-upgrade to Ubuntu Dapper?
That's the tenth or eleventh time people bash me for driving a SUV and pointing me to suv hate sites where people explain how people that drive suvs are morons and so on.
Thing is, I don't drive a suv, maybe time for a nick change.
My sympathies to all people who drive a suv, however. Aparrently the hate towards suv drivers is ubiquitious.
Since I am aware that the average person these days cannot be bothered to look up things they do not understand
;), hint, it's not in Afrika). I grasp the concept very well, but I'm slightly childish at times, and I couldn't resist acting inane at your serious reaction to what was a sarcastic remark in my original post (and not to be taken so deeply and even quote Latin to me).
:)
If I encode my posts with a 128 key and give you the key, would you bother to look up the algorithm I'll refer you to and decode it?
You don't care enough? Well imagine some people care even less, so that looking up phrases on the web is not something they wanna do.
I cannot help it if the modern American mind is incapable of grasping the concept that price does not equal quality/correctness.
I'm not an American, I'm a Bulgarian (look that up..
Sorry for wasting your & my time with this nonsense of a discussion we're having
Your English is better than my Bulgarian, although I am not entirely unfamiliar with the Balkan linguistic union. I would have greater chance of success with Greek.
:)
I have not quoted Latin at you. I have quoted a bit of Latinate English. Ironically, had I known you were Bulgarian I might well have used a more formally Latin grammar, since I would expect you to have a greater chance of understanding an international "Lingua Franca" than my own native tongue.
No offend but, that's exactly how I've always imagined a conversation with a protocol droid.
You got a golden finish or we'll wait until Episode 3?