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    Stefan Spenz
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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!

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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!

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      Roger Allen
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      Why don't they bring it back for a service/upgrade? :suss: Roger Allen Sonork 100.10016 Were you different as a kid? Did you ever say "Ooohhh, shiny red" even once? - Paul Watson 11-February-2003

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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!

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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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          Why don't they bring it back for a service/upgrade? :suss: Roger Allen Sonork 100.10016 Were you different as a kid? Did you ever say "Ooohhh, shiny red" even once? - Paul Watson 11-February-2003

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          Jorgen Sigvardsson
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          Zefram Cochrane hasn't been born yet, and consequently warp drive has not yet been invented. Duh! :-D -- I'm coming out of the closet: I :love: VB

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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!

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            well they had to let it go now cos its too far away to transmit a service pack to :laugh:


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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!

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              Ray Cassick
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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.


              Paul Watson wrote: "At the end of the day it is what you produce that counts, not how many doctorates you have on the wall."
              George Carlin wrote: "Don't sweat the petty things, and don't pet the sweaty things." Unknown wrote: "I love long walks, especialy taken by those that annoy me."


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                Zefram Cochrane hasn't been born yet, and consequently warp drive has not yet been invented. Duh! :-D -- I'm coming out of the closet: I :love: VB

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                Paul Watson
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                Jörgen Sigvardsson wrote: Zefram Cochrane hasn't been born yet, and consequently warp drive has not yet been invented. Duh! I was thinking the same thing. I mean, really, like, is it not so obvious to him? Schwaaaa! :rolleyes:

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                • S Stefan Spenz

                  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!

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                  dandy72
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                  Still useful for Klingon target practice. After V'ger, maybe this one'll come back as P'neer...

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                    Still useful for Klingon target practice. After V'ger, maybe this one'll come back as P'neer...

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                    Brian Delahunty
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                    Daniel Desormeaux wrote: After V'ger, maybe this one'll come back as P'neer... :laugh::laugh: Regards, Brian Dela :-)
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                      well they had to let it go now cos its too far away to transmit a service pack to :laugh:


                      "even if my world is weird its my world"
                      biz stuff   about me

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                      Brian Delahunty
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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 :-)
                      Run naked in the snow until you're sweating like a stuck pig and can't seem to catch your breath. When the flu becomes pneumonia, they can cure that with a shot. - Roger Wright

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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!

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                        Scott H Settlemier
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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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                          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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                          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."

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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.


                            Paul Watson wrote: "At the end of the day it is what you produce that counts, not how many doctorates you have on the wall."
                            George Carlin wrote: "Don't sweat the petty things, and don't pet the sweaty things." Unknown wrote: "I love long walks, especialy taken by those that annoy me."


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                            Ray Cassick wrote: how many of us can say that one of our applications will still be in use 30 years form now Try that one in a COBOL forum ;P 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."

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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!

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                              Anna Jayne Metcalfe
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                              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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                                Marc Clifton
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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.
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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.
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                                  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."

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                                    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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                                      Why don't they bring it back for a service/upgrade? :suss: Roger Allen Sonork 100.10016 Were you different as a kid? Did you ever say "Ooohhh, shiny red" even once? - Paul Watson 11-February-2003

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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 :-)
                                        Run naked in the snow until you're sweating like a stuck pig and can't seem to catch your breath. When the flu becomes pneumonia, they can cure that with a shot. - Roger Wright

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                                        "Ok Bill, just climb into this catapult here...." :rolleyes: The tigress is here :-D

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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"

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                                          Scott H Settlemier
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                                          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?

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