Mars Rover Spirit Still Alive 185
Toren Altair writes with this excerpt from a story at The Space Fellowship: "NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit communicated via the Mars Odyssey orbiter today right at the time when ground controllers had told it to, prompting shouts of 'She's talking!' among the rover team at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 'This means Spirit has not gone into a fault condition and is still being controlled by sequences we send from the ground,' said John Callas of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., project manager for Spirit and its twin, Opportunity."
This was a triumph! (Score:5, Funny)
I'm making a note here:
HUGE SUCCESS.
Everyone Dance! (Score:5, Funny)
And we're stayin' alive, stayin' alive.
Ah, ha, ha, ha,
Stayin' alive.
Stayin' alive.
Ah, ha, ha, ha,
Stayin' alive.
They don't make 'em like that anymore (Score:4, Funny)
But I wish they did!
Setup a status page (Score:5, Funny)
NASA Automotives (Score:5, Funny)
It rains and my stupid car won't start. Their little rover can travel to a different planet, survive the cold, survive dust storms, etc and keep going. Maybe instead of bailing out the "big three", we should dump all that money into NASA to make cars.
I'm willing to risk my safety on a metric to standard conversion problem for a car that will run.
I'm not dead! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:This was a triumph! (Score:5, Funny)
It's hard to overstate my satisfaction.
Bring out your rovers! (Score:3, Funny)
I'm not dead yet.....
Re:Everyone Dance! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:This was a triumph! (Score:5, Funny)
(from someone at JPL)
At least you're not completely emotionally invested in this thing. Seriously, when it 'dies', somebody is going to need some serious counseling.
Re:NASA Automotives (Score:5, Funny)
Re:NASA Automotives (Score:3, Funny)
By maintaining it do you mean traveling to mars every 20 miles for an oil change?
Re:NASA Automotives (Score:5, Funny)
clearly he means that auto mechanics will be able to fix your car remotely from 35~250 million miles away regardless of where it breaks down. they can even get your car unstuck remotely [npr.org] if you ever get stuck in a ditch.
suck on that OnStar! all they can do is unlock your car.
Re:This was a triumph! (Score:4, Funny)
The poor lander all alone out there, a million miles away from home
Now you made me all depressed. A rescue mission I say!
Re:3 Mars Rovers (Score:3, Funny)
that was supposed to be a <3.
Re:NASA Automotives (Score:5, Funny)
So, sort of like selling a Cadillac to a senior citizen?
Re:NASA Automotives (Score:5, Funny)
Re:NASA Automotives (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Ummm (Score:5, Funny)
Not dead yet (Score:3, Funny)
I guess it was just a flesh wound.
It is not Mars Rovers (Score:1, Funny)
Re:It is not Mars Rovers (Score:5, Funny)
Re:NASA Automotives (Score:5, Funny)
Spirit has gone 4.8 miles [wikipedia.org] so far, and Opportunity has gone 7.68 [wikipedia.org] miles.
+36 Million miles each if you count the commute to work.
Re:I'm not dead! (Score:4, Funny)
Where do you want to go today?
There is no Vista over there.
Rovers - expected to die before Vista came out.
Vista - not only late but dead before the rovers die.
Re:NASA Automotives (Score:5, Funny)
nah, old people only drive slow when you're in a hurry.
I think this is more accurate.
Re:This was a triumph! (Score:5, Funny)
You're not smart. You're not a scientist. You're not a doctor. You're not even a full-time employee. Where did your life go so wrong?
Re:This was a triumph! (Score:1, Funny)
We're doing science and I'm
STILL ALIVE
Re:Ummm (Score:4, Funny)
Re:3 Mars Rovers (Score:3, Funny)
Right, I get that. I just meant, you know. <3, as in an ascii heart.
Looks like a pair of testicles to me...
Re:This was a triumph! (Score:2, Funny)
We do what we must, because: we can.
Re:Not dead yet (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Setup a status page (Score:5, Funny)
There is even one for if the LHC has destroyed the world or not [hasthelhcd...eearth.com]!
Re:NASA Automotives (Score:2, Funny)
Re:This was a triumph! (Score:3, Funny)
It's like having and raising a child. Except this one, at 15, doesn't live in your house and does what he's told.
Re:This was a triumph! (Score:2, Funny)