More from Mars (and it ain't good)
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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'
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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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!
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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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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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. :(
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
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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Woops - I didn't realise the report was in reverse time order. With the newest entries first. I was really worried that things were getting worse and worse there! Joel Holdsworth
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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...:~
adonisv wrote: bible thumping whackos Wow, I'm out of the loop. Didn't know that having religious beliefs automatically made someone a wacko. btw, who has less credibility? someone you call a wacko, or you for calling them a wacko suprise, its you. Matt Newman If you chose to continue this discussion, I am fully prepared to make you my bitch. I invite you to ask around, and you'll find out that I'm quite capable of doing so - John Simmons on Trolls
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KaЯl wrote: ..to type Ctrl+Atl+Del. Reminds me of one of the cash registers at work tonight. It had to be rebooted and displayed on the screen was
Keyboard error
Press F1 go continue
however, these machines have no keyboard with F-keys or a place to plug in a keyboard :rolleyes: Matt Newman If you chose to continue this discussion, I am fully prepared to make you my bitch. I invite you to ask around, and you'll find out that I'm quite capable of doing so - John Simmons on Trolls
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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...:~
I may be wrong but it was a UK telescope which detected the first transmissions from this latest mission. I doubt they could decode them but the point is that they could detect them and probably with a bit of thinking deduce from which satelite relay it came from. So NASA can't hide that the mission is still transmitting (though of course they can say that the data being sent back is garbage or some other story). regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass South Africa Christopher Duncan quoted: "All Corvettes are red. Everything else is just a mistake." Crikey! ain't life grand? Einstein says...
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KaЯl wrote: ..to type Ctrl+Atl+Del. Reminds me of one of the cash registers at work tonight. It had to be rebooted and displayed on the screen was
Keyboard error
Press F1 go continue
however, these machines have no keyboard with F-keys or a place to plug in a keyboard :rolleyes: Matt Newman If you chose to continue this discussion, I am fully prepared to make you my bitch. I invite you to ask around, and you'll find out that I'm quite capable of doing so - John Simmons on Trolls
Well, all you need to do is hit DEL when it boots up, and tell it not to look for a keyboard any more. Oh, wait...
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Well, all you need to do is hit DEL when it boots up, and tell it not to look for a keyboard any more. Oh, wait...
It has a CLEAR button, maybe that will work :-D Matt Newman If you chose to continue this discussion, I am fully prepared to make you my bitch. I invite you to ask around, and you'll find out that I'm quite capable of doing so - John Simmons on Trolls
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adonisv wrote: bible thumping whackos Wow, I'm out of the loop. Didn't know that having religious beliefs automatically made someone a wacko. btw, who has less credibility? someone you call a wacko, or you for calling them a wacko suprise, its you. Matt Newman If you chose to continue this discussion, I am fully prepared to make you my bitch. I invite you to ask around, and you'll find out that I'm quite capable of doing so - John Simmons on Trolls
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Since I NEVER SAID, "having a religious belief" made you a bible thumping whacko. Did I? If I did, show me the text. You on the other hand made assumptions not based on evidence, revealing your OWN bias and thereby reducing YOUR credibility. :laugh:
adonisv wrote: You on the other hand made assumptions not based on evidence So where is your evidence of Bush's administration "thumping bibles" and the wacko part editorializes your bias is that religion is for "wackos" adonisv wrote: revealing your OWN bias so... everyone has a bias... adonisv wrote: and thereby reducing YOUR credibility. having a bias does not reduce credibility calling someone a "bible thumping wacko" does. There would have been better ways to express your point. btw, finding life on mars would not destroy christians or creationism for 2 reasons. 1: just because life was found somewhere else does not eliminate creationsim. 2: Faith Matt Newman If you chose to continue this discussion, I am fully prepared to make you my bitch. I invite you to ask around, and you'll find out that I'm quite capable of doing so - John Simmons on Trolls