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  • L l a u r e n

    well it was either the java joke or the "i knew they should have asked the lil green guys permission b4 snooping around up there" joke and since this is a geek site i figured the java one was more appropriate ;)


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    Alvaro Mendez
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    Yes, and not just a geek site, a Java-sucks-ass/C++-is-king-and-.NET-is-cool geek site. :-) On a more serious note, I was wondering when those little Martian moles were gonna come out and cause havoc. :rolleyes: Regards, Alvaro


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      Nasa's Mars rover Spirit has stopped sending useful data to Earth from the Red Planet and mission scientists are unable to send it commands. Story[^] Kind of coincidental after Marc Clifton's thread earlier today, critical of the engineering quality/practices at NASA. :|

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      LunaticFringe wrote: Nasa's Mars rover Spirit has stopped sending useful data to Earth from the Red Planet and mission scientists are unable to send it commands. Darn! Should I take the Mars Rover off my list of best robots[^] now??:~ :confused::~ :doh::sigh: Later, JoeSox Love is a virus we benefit from. joeswammi.com ↔ humanaiproject.org ↔ joeswammi.com/sinfest

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      • L l a u r e n

        well it was either the java joke or the "i knew they should have asked the lil green guys permission b4 snooping around up there" joke and since this is a geek site i figured the java one was more appropriate ;)


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        Chris Maunder
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        :bob:

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          :bob:

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          l a u r e n
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          :laugh:


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            Nasa's Mars rover Spirit has stopped sending useful data to Earth from the Red Planet and mission scientists are unable to send it commands. Story[^] Kind of coincidental after Marc Clifton's thread earlier today, critical of the engineering quality/practices at NASA. :|

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            Sam Levy
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            NASA needs to develop a robot dog like in that Val Kilmer movie, so it can defend itself against those martians.

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              Nasa's Mars rover Spirit has stopped sending useful data to Earth from the Red Planet and mission scientists are unable to send it commands. Story[^] Kind of coincidental after Marc Clifton's thread earlier today, critical of the engineering quality/practices at NASA. :|

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              Ranjan Banerji
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              NASA should have known that the Martians don't like others snooping on them :-)

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                :bob:

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                Michael Dunn
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                Who'd have thought that the little guy was so dangerous... ;P --Mike-- Ericahist | CP SearchBar v2.0.2 | Homepage | 1ClickPicGrabber New v2.0.1! | RightClick-Encrypt If my rhyme was a drug, I'd sell it by the gram.

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                  Nasa's Mars rover Spirit has stopped sending useful data to Earth from the Red Planet and mission scientists are unable to send it commands. Story[^] Kind of coincidental after Marc Clifton's thread earlier today, critical of the engineering quality/practices at NASA. :|

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                  What a waste. Regardz Colin J Davies

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                    What a waste. Regardz Colin J Davies

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                    They stumbled on data the confirms there is life on other planets and the President and the CIA being the assholes they are don't want to public to get wind of it so they are making NASA *claim* the rover died. Just think what would happen if they found life on mars? What would that mean for creationists and all the bible thumping whackos in the Bush administration????? Oh yeah, and gree martians probably had something to do with it...:~

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                      They stumbled on data the confirms there is life on other planets and the President and the CIA being the assholes they are don't want to public to get wind of it so they are making NASA *claim* the rover died. Just think what would happen if they found life on mars? What would that mean for creationists and all the bible thumping whackos in the Bush administration????? Oh yeah, and gree martians probably had something to do with it...:~

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                      I guess, that's possible. But if true, the ability to cover up this kind of info can't happen forever. BTW: How do we know that Martians are Green ? Regardz Colin J Davies

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                        Nasa's Mars rover Spirit has stopped sending useful data to Earth from the Red Planet and mission scientists are unable to send it commands. Story[^] Kind of coincidental after Marc Clifton's thread earlier today, critical of the engineering quality/practices at NASA. :|

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                        ..to type Ctrl+Atl+Del.


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                          Nasa's Mars rover Spirit has stopped sending useful data to Earth from the Red Planet and mission scientists are unable to send it commands. Story[^] Kind of coincidental after Marc Clifton's thread earlier today, critical of the engineering quality/practices at NASA. :|

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                          Well, down under we heard that it had sent a few more pictures - I wonder if it was before or after your post.. There have been severe electrical storms 'down-under', in the specific region where the Tidbinbilla deep space tracking station is (DSS-34, DSS-43, DSS45, DSS-46) which relays the commands from NASA to the beastie) ... (I dont know about DSS-49 out at Parkes, quite a bit west of here ...) If you follow http://www.cdscc.nasa.gov/Pages/pg02_antennas.html[^] you'll see a lot of your tracking is being provided by us humble Aussies ;-) 'G'

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                            Well, down under we heard that it had sent a few more pictures - I wonder if it was before or after your post.. There have been severe electrical storms 'down-under', in the specific region where the Tidbinbilla deep space tracking station is (DSS-34, DSS-43, DSS45, DSS-46) which relays the commands from NASA to the beastie) ... (I dont know about DSS-49 out at Parkes, quite a bit west of here ...) If you follow http://www.cdscc.nasa.gov/Pages/pg02_antennas.html[^] you'll see a lot of your tracking is being provided by us humble Aussies ;-) 'G'

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                            Jorgen Sigvardsson
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                            Has anyone climbed up on those antennaes to see if something is obscuring it? Who knows, maybe birds have found a great nesting place.. :-D -- C'est normal!

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                              Nasa's Mars rover Spirit has stopped sending useful data to Earth from the Red Planet and mission scientists are unable to send it commands. Story[^] Kind of coincidental after Marc Clifton's thread earlier today, critical of the engineering quality/practices at NASA. :|

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                              Marc Clifton
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                              The latest news appears to be hopeful that they can figure out the problem. Mission Status[^] Marc Latest AAL Article My blog Join my forum!

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                                Has anyone climbed up on those antennaes to see if something is obscuring it? Who knows, maybe birds have found a great nesting place.. :-D -- C'est normal!

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                                Garth J Lancaster
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                                Chuckle .. its not unknown even here in suburban Sydney for tv antennae to be dislodged by marauding opossums (like the f**king family of em that play football on my roof everynight) Some of our native birds, like Galah's & Cockatoo's may roost on the dishes at night, although its been years since I've been there, I would have thought they had anti fouling (pun intented) devices ... - Cockatoos's are especially destructive, they like seeing what they can eat and pick things apart ... I often see them here in town on the blank wall opposite my building picking concrete our of cracks in the bricks - I think they do it for salts/minerals ... 'G'

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                                  didnt they use java for the software base? :rolleyes:


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                                  Joe Woodbury
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                                  The mars rovers use VxWorks. Pathfinder had a similar problem due to a priority inversion bug. They were able to fix it remotely. A good article describing the problem and fix: http://research.microsoft.com/~mbj/Mars_Pathfinder/Mars_Pathfinder.html[^] Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine. - P.J. O'Rourke

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                                    The latest news appears to be hopeful that they can figure out the problem. Mission Status[^] Marc Latest AAL Article My blog Join my forum!

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                                    Garth J Lancaster
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                                    great link Marc - thanks 'G'

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                                      I guess, that's possible. But if true, the ability to cover up this kind of info can't happen forever. BTW: How do we know that Martians are Green ? Regardz Colin J Davies

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                                      The defense department has been supressing video footage of ufo's taken from the space shuttle for years. I bet astronaughts are made to swear not to tell or they have their memories erased. That's exactly why Bush came out for a huge increase for the space program, to not look anti scientific when really he's just keeping his bible thumping cronies happy. Proof of life on Mars would cause quite a stir. Better left to the loonies who watch the sci fi channel. :(

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                                        The defense department has been supressing video footage of ufo's taken from the space shuttle for years. I bet astronaughts are made to swear not to tell or they have their memories erased. That's exactly why Bush came out for a huge increase for the space program, to not look anti scientific when really he's just keeping his bible thumping cronies happy. Proof of life on Mars would cause quite a stir. Better left to the loonies who watch the sci fi channel. :(

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                                        somebody's been reading too many conspiracy theory websites... :rolleyes:


                                        wow. -lutherbaker on Heath Stewart's replies in the C# forum

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                                          somebody's been reading too many conspiracy theory websites... :rolleyes:


                                          wow. -lutherbaker on Heath Stewart's replies in the C# forum

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                                          adonisv
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                                          Oh, the government would NEVER cover up scientific data. Ohhhhhh noooooo, not MYYYYY government. Uh uh! Maybe in Iraq *cough* Bush's election was a fraud *cough* maybe in North Korean *cough* we performed radio active experiments on our own troops,*cough* we protected the Bin Laden family after 911 *cough* I don't read conspiracy theory websites...the TRUTH is WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY scarier! :wtf:

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