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


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


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      Lost User
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      I believe the Maestro control package does. I don't know about firmware on the rover itself.

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


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        Alvaro Mendez
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        :laugh: I hope that's meant as a joke. Blaming this on Java would be like blaming C++ for NT's BSOD. Regards, Alvaro


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          :laugh: I hope that's meant as a joke. Blaming this on Java would be like blaming C++ for NT's BSOD. Regards, Alvaro


          "I do" is both the shortest and the longest sentence in the English language.

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          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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            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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            I don't know -I'm partial to the little green guy one. Does this mean I'm not a geek? :-D

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              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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                  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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                  :bob:

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                    :bob:

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

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                          :bob:

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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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                                        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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                                          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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