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Mars Soil Frustrates Phoenix Again
Tablizer writes "The Phoenix Mars lander has been frustrated yet again by Mars's odd soil. The wet nature of the soil they are targeting appears to have made it get stuck in the scoop rather than drop into the oven. Past problems with similarly clumpy soil may have damaged the lander because the vibrator had to be used longer than it was designed for, resulting in a short circuit."
It's pretty interesting learning about the problems encountered while analyzing alien soil, but I'm not even going to touch that vibrator comment.
The eternal struggle of good vs. evil begins within one's self.
How many of you saw the word "vibrator" and clicked it?
There's got to be a joke in here somewhere.... Wet nature... Drop into the oven... Got to think... Lemme get another beer.
What if I do the same thing, and I do get different results?
"... the vibrator had to be used longer than designed, resulting in a short circuit."
Time to upgrade to a real geek, I mean man, and put the toys away.
Why stop there? Anything can be a euphemism.
Frustrates phoenix...Wet nature...drop into the oven...get stuck in the scoop...damaged the lander...and of course, the universal problem everyone faces: ...the vibrator had to be used longer than designed, resulting in a short circuit.
An old-timer with old-timey ideas.
because the vibrator had to be used longer than designed, resulting in a short circuit.
I'm not surprised that the martian atmosphere is causing issues gettin' NASA's baby off.
"In later results, NASA found out out that the martian atmosphere actually helps with male ejaculation; The atmospheric pressure along with low gravity made a natural ejaculation travel 5 miles before hitting the ground."
Considering that this is from the "pulling-out-doesn't-sound-manly dept." I think the editor was all too happy to play along.
Timothy may also be getting an email shortly from Taco.
Analyzing ?
A Phoenix putting something into an oven... there go our tax dollars! Any competent phoenix would wait until its body burst into flame, then use the spare heat to analyze the sample.
I don't know about you, but I intend to write to my Congressperson.
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i'm going to be really immature and say "pics or ban" :P
If you use the vibrator, obviously the scoop is going to get wet.
(couldn't resist)
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"Wet" and "icy" are not mutually exclusive. Go watch an ice-cube melt.
That's how it goes when they send a vibrator to do a mans job. Anyway, are the exploring that hole they found a while back?
There's got to be a joke in here somewhere....
Mars hasn't had contact with any life forms in hundreds of millions of years, at least. Of course it needed an unusually long time with the vibrator.
Timothy may also be getting an email shortly from Taco.
Fish taco?
Yeah, we could have found out exactly what Martian soil is like beforehand. We should just send up a robot to scoop some up and analyze it...oh wait.
Since I'm a guy and all :)
So send a politician.
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
Seems that Mars is a harsh mister
Well... Mars does contain a fair amount of gooey caramel, so sticky soil surely shouldn't come as a surprise to NASA.
Yo mama ...
may have damaged the lander because the vibrator had to be used longer than designed
If Phoenix isn't working, I'm sure Firefox shall fix all that stuff.
NASA scientists break vibrator
Maybe he's posting from Mars? ;)
~S
Do we really want to infect another world with zombies?