Mars Soil Frustrates Phoenix Again 221
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."
Neato (Score:5, Funny)
Fess up.... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Neato (Score:5, Funny)
Vibrator had to be used for longer than designed.. (Score:3, Funny)
There's got to be a joke in here somewhere.... Wet nature... Drop into the oven... Got to think... Lemme get another beer.
Re:Neato (Score:4, Funny)
I will!
wget http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=627539&op=Reply&threshold=1&commentsort=0&mode=thread&pid=24362939 [slashdot.org] | grep -i vibrator > vibrator
touch ./vibrator
Re:Neato (Score:5, Funny)
That's what she said (Score:0, Funny)
"... 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.
Re:Vibrator had to be used for longer than designe (Score:5, Funny)
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.
bah! (Score:1, Funny)
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."
Re:YHBT (Score:5, Funny)
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.
Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny)
Analyzing ?
A phoenix using an oven! (Score:5, Funny)
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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Re:PLEASE TAG VIBRATOR (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Neato (Score:2, Funny)
Waaaaaaallllll-EEEEE!!!!
Obligatory (Score:2, Funny)
If you use the vibrator, obviously the scoop is going to get wet.
My wife has that problem too. (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Definition of 'wet'? (Score:5, Funny)
Bad vibrator (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Vibrator had to be used for longer than designe (Score:5, Funny)
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.
Re:YHBT (Score:1, Funny)
Timothy may also be getting an email shortly from Taco.
Fish taco?
Re:Neato (Score:2, Funny)
Re:One sad conclusion (Score:5, Funny)
MOD PARENT INTERESTING (Score:5, Funny)
Since I'm a guy and all :)
Re:MOD PARENT INTERESTING (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Bad vibrator (Score:4, Funny)
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?
Oh come on!
You can send 1000 vibrators for the price of one man.
Vibrators always do what they are told.
Vibrators never get tired...
Re:Except.... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Lotta problems on Mars (Score:5, Funny)
Well... (Score:1, Funny)
Well... Mars does contain a fair amount of gooey caramel, so sticky soil surely shouldn't come as a surprise to NASA.
Yo mama (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Neato (Score:5, Funny)
No manual entry for vibrator
Don't worry (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Neato (Score:5, Funny)
Could be worse - it might have been Uranus, after all.
Re:Neato (Score:5, Funny)
Professor: "I'm sorry, Fry, but astronomers renamed Uranus in 2620 to end that stupid joke once and for all."
Fry: "Oh. What's it called now?"
Professor: "Urectum."
I can see the fleet street headlines (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Neato (Score:3, Funny)
You'd think NASA scientists knew more about the reliability of vibrating devices...
Re:Unmanned missions (Score:3, Funny)
Maybe he's posting from Mars? ;)
~S
Re:Neato (Score:3, Funny)
I'll go there: ... that's what she said!
"because the vibrator had to be used longer than designed, resulting in a short circuit"
Comment removed (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Except.... (Score:1, Funny)
Do we really want to infect another world with zombies?