Pioneer 10 is lost...
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30 years after launching NASA gave up its space droid Pioneer 10 because of communication problems. 30 years (!!!) :omg: Thats what I call a good piece of tech! When I was young my mother told me to clean up my room, I told her -1!
I wonder if they'll just let it keep going, or will someone, someday put it in a museum somewhere?
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Stefan Spenz wrote: 30 years (!!!) Yeah not bad. According to http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/sso/cool/pioneer10/general/amonetxt.html[^] both pioneer 10 & 11 to build and analyze data cost $100 million 3.3 million a year. What a bargain ;):jig:
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Yeah, how many of us can say that one of our applications will still be in use 30 years form now.
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30 years after launching NASA gave up its space droid Pioneer 10 because of communication problems. 30 years (!!!) :omg: Thats what I call a good piece of tech! When I was young my mother told me to clean up my room, I told her -1!
That's a shame...although I'm surprised they've managed to keep in touch with it so long! Anna :rose: www.annasplace.me.uk
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I wonder if they'll just let it keep going, or will someone, someday put it in a museum somewhere?
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Microsoft deliberately adds arbitrary layers of complexity to make it difficult to deliver Windows features on non-Windows platforms--Microsoft's "Halloween files"Marc Clifton wrote: That was a joke, I hope! :laugh: :laugh: God, me too!
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Just imagine all the useless data they gathered from empty space. ;P What do want to do today? The same thing we do every day, analyse empty space. MyDUMeter: a .NET DUMeter clone
"Thats like saying "hahahaha he doesnt know the difference between a cyberneticradioactivenuclothermolopticdimswitch and a biocontainingspherogramotron", but with words you have really never heard of."leppie wrote: What do want to do today? The same thing we do every day, analyse empty space. LOL :laugh: --Mike-- The Internet is a place where absolutely nothing happens. -- Strong Bad 1ClickPicGrabber - Grab & organize pictures from your favorite web pages, with 1 click! My really out-of-date homepage Sonork-100.19012 Acid_Helm
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Windows Update perhaps ? :laugh: The tigress is here :-D
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lauren wrote: cos its too far away to transmit a service pack to I beat if MS had programmed it the DoJ would make them figure out a way of getting a SP to it. :rolleyes: Regards, Brian Dela :-)
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That was a joke, I hope! Marc Help! I'm an AI running around in someone's f*cked up universe simulator.
Sensitivity and ethnic diversity means celebrating difference, not hiding from it. - Christian Graus
Every line of code is a liability - Taka Muraoka
Microsoft deliberately adds arbitrary layers of complexity to make it difficult to deliver Windows features on non-Windows platforms--Microsoft's "Halloween files"No, serious. You know those kinds of things where it takes too long to finish a job for the job not to change. There should a term for that. Anyhow, they carry plaques and all and the hope (slim) is that they get recognized out there somehow. But as people overtake the probes (and we know where to look) how're you gonna stop people from wanting to take the probes for their own as a souvenir of the early days of space exploration?