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Mars Opportunity Rover Appears To Contact Earth; Turns Out To Be a False Alarm (vice.com)
dmoberhaus writes: NASA's Mars Opportunity rover appeared to briefly make contact with the agency's Deep Space Network on Thursday afternoon after 5 months of silence. In June, a dust storm took Opportunity offline and every attempt to bring the rover back to life has failed. NASA scientists were hoping that seasonal winds that sweep the planet from November to February might blow the dust off of Opportunity's solar panels. Was this the rover's first attempt trying to get back into contact with Earth? Update 11/17/18: No. It turns out that the data received by the Deep Space Network was not from the Opportunity rover. "Today [the Deep Space Network website] showed what looked like a signal from Opportunity," JPL said in a tweet. "As much as we'd like to say this was an #OppyPhoneHome moment, further investigation shows these signals were not an Opportunity transmission. Test data or false positives can make it look like a given spacecraft is active on [the Deep Space Network website]. Our work to reestablish comms continues."
to be the *first* to phone home.
It appears that somebody made an inopportune announcement before verifying all the facts.
Besides the offtopic, are "the usual suspects" the poor? The fuck is wrong with you?
They were using Opportunity to align their death ray.
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)
And UBI isn't free money. Professor Hawking explained it all.
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)
Again, a simple question,
When you identify objects you believe to be black holes, do you ever find ones that you think are edge on?
I see things like NGC 4261, ... face on, with the event horizon around them, but are there edge on black holes? Long thing structures you think are black holes behind event horizon debris?
They should be very common.
Your Republicanism is underwhelming, it's like you're not even trying to suppress the votes of American citizens. You'll have to work harder if you want the rope of treason, son.
Imagine being 40 years old and so autistic that you thinking submitting this shit is still funny.
HGC 4261, sort of shows the halo effect I'm expecting from a black hole.
"so yes, every side-on galaxy you see in a picture is also a side on view of it's central SMBH"
That's an interesting point. Yeh maybe that's what I'm looking for.
Yeah just a robo call for fake Microsoft service. At least we have another one soon to be en-route in the near future.
Imagine being 40 years old and so autistic that you thinking submitting this shit is still funny.
That's the sad fact. There are unfortunately plenty of mentally unstable people who cannot join the rest of the workforce and instead are stuck at home on a computer all the time. This is the sort of thing they do to keep themselves occupied.
Our tax dollars at work.
Have you tried turning it off and then on again?
Ah, there's the die-hard conservative viewpoint; blame the mentally ill for their mental illness, cut funding for health care and eliminate mental health programs, then whine about how society doesn't let the mentally ill starve to death on the street.
NASA just has to wait a few more years and SpaceX will send somebody to walk over and dust off the solar panels for them.
I am not saying it is aliens, but....
I'm perfectly fine with Mr "n*ggerdicks" starving to death on the street. Take your Slashdot shitposting back to 1999 please.
Hard reset of Opportunity due to critical power loss. Reverted back to original frequency for civilian mission. Quickly scramble to restore military command frequency. Investigation inside military mission to determine root cause and to prevent recurrence. Plausible civilian story with standard specific "test data" and generic "false positive" explanations. Incident monitored before closure.
possibly be mistaken for random "false positive" data?
That seems preposterous. The handshake presumeably is complex, extended, and extremely specific.
And if they're instead of talking about only a handful of initial bits of such a sequence, they shouldn't have announced anything.
This is a weird story.
Where are we going and why are we in a handbasket?
I mean initial broadcaster identification and verification sequence (layered, from carrier ping up to digital error-coded message), not really a handshake, because speed of light.
Where are we going and why are we in a handbasket?
It's okay, a well known team of troubleshooters has contacted the rover with this call:
"Hello, ve are calling from de Vindows Support Center because we have been getting reports that your solar pannels are contaminated with dust and wiruses".
"Are you sitting in front of your computer?"
"Do you see a key with de Vindows symbol on it?"
"Please be hlding that key and pressing the R..."