Well I am glad to see that the thing did not get stuck on a balloon.
The chance of spirit getting stuck made me think. (For the next ones we make) Why not get some very small solid rocket engines and put them facing in all directions on this thing. If the rover gets stuck, then as a last resort they could try igniting one or more of these small rockets engines to try and dislodge the rover. These rocket engines would probably be the smallest model rocket engines (or smaller) since I would hope you wouldn't need much of a bang to move in the Martian gravity. They are also pretty cheap.
granted you'd only get one shot, but if it's a last resort it's better to have one shot then none.
It sounds like someone went for those X10 cameras from the pop-under ads.
This just sounds like such a bad idea. Why would you want this? It spies on citizens as well as will probably put law enforcement officers out of work.
Yeah Wil, I remember when all that happened. I remember reading the jokes about WFS and laughing and laughing.
Leaks are going to happen and I don't always think it is the intent of the person who received the screener or the script or what not. They just happen to be the film industry equivelant of gramma who sends her money to that nice nigerian general's wife.
Just being a fan, I never got the chance to look at either of your Enterprises first hand.
I was hoping it would come. The anticepation was building and now WHAT A LET DOWN. The support community was actually looking forward to having "BUY A NEW ONE" not only the best answer, but the only one.
What, you've never heard the saying "Any noun can be verbed"?
Argh! "Verbing" a noun that is an abbreviation (IT ISN'T EVEN AN ACRONYM) which includes a number might be a little tasteless.
Woe to he who would learn English.
OK OK OK I don't wanna "Frenchfry" the language either, where creating words is punishable by law. Please understand the sarcasm in which the post was written.
This is English, where anyone can make up a word... even those who don't speak English -Walkman anyone? But I refuse to spell words with numbers!In place of letters like the l337 h4x0rs maybe, but as letters; NO!
Last time I was on Eros, I didn't see any no trespassing signs, or claim markers. I didn't even see anything that looked like anyone else was ever there.
where exactly could you even file for property rights over a celestial body?
I would lean more owards camera saturation myself as well
If it isn't saturation, it doesn't have to be faster than light. The event could have come from deep in the sun and reached the entire surface at the same time. Well preserving relativity, I would really hate to know what that could mean though, nothing racing through my head looks pretty.
It's camera/sensor saturation. It could also be in the recording or in the transfer of the images to us.
The major flares have come from sunspot region 486
Thank goodness it wasn't from the Pentium IV region, or even the extremely Hot Athlon XP region, we'd be burnt to a crisp. Damn solar over-clockers, If they burn out this sun, where are we gunna get another one? The bidders have been grabbing them up on ebay like hotcakes.
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In other words, the Spirit is willing, but the flash is weak.
I guess I'll have to add that to the book of Martian proverbs.
Isn't this a DUPE from 2 years ago? I swear I've read all this before INCLUDING YOUR COMMENT! wow
If you got stuck on mars how much force do you really think it'd take to dislodge it?? we don't need the rover shooting accross an entire hemisphere
Well I am glad to see that the thing did not get stuck on a balloon.
The chance of spirit getting stuck made me think. (For the next ones we make) Why not get some very small solid rocket engines and put them facing in all directions on this thing. If the rover gets stuck, then as a last resort they could try igniting one or more of these small rockets engines to try and dislodge the rover. These rocket engines would probably be the smallest model rocket engines (or smaller) since I would hope you wouldn't need much of a bang to move in the Martian gravity. They are also pretty cheap.
granted you'd only get one shot, but if it's a last resort it's better to have one shot then none.
It sounds like someone went for those X10 cameras from the pop-under ads.
This just sounds like such a bad idea. Why would you want this? It spies on citizens as well as will probably put law enforcement officers out of work.
Yeah Wil, I remember when all that happened. I remember reading the jokes about WFS and laughing and laughing.
Leaks are going to happen and I don't always think it is the intent of the person who received the screener or the script or what not. They just happen to be the film industry equivelant of gramma who sends her money to that nice nigerian general's wife.
Just being a fan, I never got the chance to look at either of your Enterprises first hand.
HELLO?! this is /. here!
My Question to you, is why on earth did you think to ask such a thing?
I was hoping it would come. The anticepation was building and now WHAT A LET DOWN. The support community was actually looking forward to having "BUY A NEW ONE" not only the best answer, but the only one.
Argh! "Verbing" a noun that is an abbreviation (IT ISN'T EVEN AN ACRONYM) which includes a number might be a little tasteless.
Woe to he who would learn English.
OK OK OK I don't wanna "Frenchfry" the language either, where creating words is punishable by law. Please understand the sarcasm in which the post was written.
This is English, where anyone can make up a word... even those who don't speak English -Walkman anyone? But I refuse to spell words with numbers! In place of letters like the l337 h4x0rs maybe, but as letters; NO!
The desktop isn't IN Java, silly
The desktop IS Java.
don't hit me, it's sarcasm
I always mp3 them to play on my computer.
<grammar nazi> Ok... since when did MP3 become a verb?!? </grammar nazi>
Hey look... there they are... almost all half a million of them... No! over there... in India.
Where's my flying car? Damnit! They promised us flying cars!
This stuff is so obsurdly overpriced for what you get they must be doing it to rake in some change
Show how the kids bedrooms are worth 100 Grand each!
Why does this just ring of a setup for a comedy movie starring Eddie Murphy?
The plot --and the jokes... write themselves.
Five reasonably nice bookshelf speakers: $800.
Bookshelves to place them on: $80.
Nails and brackets to install the bookshelves: $8.
If you need $8 for nails and brackets, you got ripped off paying $80 for a bookshelf.
Man you really got ripped off.
where exactly could you even file for property rights over a celestial body?
I suppose they named it Sparkle because they think it's going to give the top brass at Microsoft a real shine.
I would lean more owards camera saturation myself as well
If it isn't saturation, it doesn't have to be faster than light. The event could have come from deep in the sun and reached the entire surface at the same time. Well preserving relativity, I would really hate to know what that could mean though, nothing racing through my head looks pretty.
It's camera/sensor saturation. It could also be in the recording or in the transfer of the images to us.
Thank goodness it wasn't from the Pentium IV region, or even the extremely Hot Athlon XP region, we'd be burnt to a crisp. Damn solar over-clockers, If they burn out this sun, where are we gunna get another one? The bidders have been grabbing them up on ebay like hotcakes.
er closer to 5500 lbs I think... That's the same a s 2.75 kiloton nuclear blast
Wonder how much fun I migh have working the Ham Radio Bands during this!
It doesn't need one, there are enough grammar nazis out there already
If it doesn't do ALL of this I am not impressed ---But that's just me