What's Inside the Mars Rovers 458
Captain Zion writes "Space.com has a story about the hardware and software of Mars Rovers Spirit and Opportunity. Basically, they're radiation-shielded, 20MHz PowerPC machines wirh 128Mb RAM and 256Mb of flash memory, running VxWorks. I wonder if I could make a nice firewall with one of these for my home network..."
What's the bus speed on that thing? (Score:4, Funny)
What's inside the rover? (Score:5, Funny)
Self-warming (Score:5, Funny)
Just leave off the heatsinks and fans, and everything should be fine.
If you've got money to burn, sure (Score:4, Funny)
Re:What's the bus speed on that thing? (Score:5, Funny)
Ask Bill Gates.
Just image... (Score:0, Funny)
What would Beagle have run had it run?
A nice Firewall? (Score:5, Funny)
You could, but the latency would be a bitch.
Well... (Score:1, Funny)
I don't think anyone would want a Beowulf cluster of those things.
Re:Radiation Shielding (Score:5, Funny)
geeky stuff.. offensive stuff! [wabshirts.com]
Re:Self-warming (Score:5, Funny)
Internet conneciton (Score:5, Funny)
Spirit Rover: Staying up longer and harder
Rus
Something strange... (Score:2, Funny)
http://idisk.mac.com/charlesholt/public/DuckDod
Mac users.. (Score:3, Funny)
Mac users everywhere take this as "Oooohh.. there's a Mac inside of those things!" "There are Macs on Mars!" Bleah.
And before you mod me down, realize that I'm an unrepentant Mac user and an Apple Authorized Service Tech.
To take care of Rover's heating problem... (Score:1, Funny)
Monopoly issues? (Score:4, Funny)
Ask Slashdot? (Score:4, Funny)
"If they ask, we come," Blackman said, echoing the enthusiasm of BAE officials. "I think when something like this happens, the whole community responds to it."
Maybe they should put up an image of the data, the diagrams of the systemboard, and descriptions of the symptoms, and submit it to Ask Slashdot. I'm sure there are a couple of VxWorks experts here who'd love to take a crack at this :)
Had to remove some parts... (Score:3, Funny)
Thanks.
Sincerely, Marvin & Family
Re:memory overflow caused Spirit shutdown? (Score:3, Funny)
Yeah - everything was going fine until the rover contacted Microsoft for its weekly update and choked on all the security patches.
Re:What's the bus speed on that thing? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Beagle-2 (Score:1, Funny)
make a firewall? (Score:3, Funny)
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"I wonder if I could make a nice firewall with one of these for my home network..."
1. build computer
2. drop off on mars on way to grocery
3. laugh in face of hacking
4. reconsider when computer mistaken by rover for new type of rock, drilled for mineral content
I thought... (Score:1, Funny)
I thought it was the price that made a Mac a Mac...
Re:Wait a second... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:20 MHz is not enough (Score:3, Funny)
Post a link to your website and then we'll reconsider your statement