Mars Spirit incommunicado

[SCO]

The Spirit is not doing what it is supposed to be doing for the past 24 hrs. It is not sending data. All they have gotten is a confirming beep that data transmitted from earth was received. They thought it might come back online after the normal powerdown at dusk and restart at dawn. Sounds like my computer. Did they forget the reset switch? Were they using the first edition of Windows 98?

 

[Elmer Fudge]

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Oh!ooh! It seems like those darn little green men caught us at it again

 

[gaugeguy]

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Another multi-million dollar space anchor. Maybe one of NASA's engineers forgot to carry the 1 again.

 

[boatingfool]

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Darn!!!<br /><br />Now we dont get to find out that those rocks on mars are made out of rocks!!<br /><br />These are just baby steps though.<br /><br />It may seem like a waste of time & money now but you have to crawl before you can walk.<br /><br />Does the rover seem like a waste of money??<br /><br />Sure.<br /><br />But the technology we are building on may take us places we never dreamed of.

 

[bomar76]

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Marvin the Martian needed some parts off it....

 

[Link]

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I wonder if the Martians have a area 51 where they keep all of our stuff that we send there ??

 

[Ralph 123]

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ctrl-alt-del

 

[bomar76]

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I wonder if the Martians have a area 51 where they keep all of our stuff that we send there ??

And reverse engineering it like we did with the flying saucers we have

 

[Jack Shellac]

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That's why George W. is in New Mexico now. He's at Roswell to start the negotiations with the Martians to give it back.

 

[OBJ]

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It's gotta be my cuzin...JimmyBoBob. Ain't seen him fer months since he left with his little green buddies. He's probly messin' with the darn gizmo. Never could keep his hands offin' stuff like that.

 

[ndemge]

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640K should be enough for anyone......

 

[Homerr]

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Yes, it's true...<br /><br />Osama Bin Laden was on board and is frantically trying to make another video tape.<br />The rover isn't broke, it's just trying to upload all that video.<br /><br />LOL!<br /><br />H.

 

[NOSLEEP]

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Mars explorer problem found<br /><br /> <br /><br />Ya just cant go anywere.

 

[mattttt25]

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for all you haters, the nasa geeks won and got it back up and running (for now).

 

[NOSLEEP]

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Whats a hater ?

 

[SCO]

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This is just a little pessimistic humor Mattt Personally, I am all for the Mars program. Even downloaded the big panaromic pic of the surface. It is fantastic what we are doing but I certainly can understand the point of view of those that think this is an 800 million dollar boondogle. <br />A loss of this robot could hurt the space exploration effort.

 

[SpinnerBait_Nut]

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Man I'm glad they got it back.<br />I told them little buddies of mine to put it's battery back in so they could start it back up.<br /><br />Them guys. They are such a hoot some times. <br />You guys really need to have a talk with them, they can teach you not to be haters, whatever that is.

 

[LadyFish]

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This just in.<br /><br />The Mars Rover-Spirit has recently been "off line". The reason has<br />just been discovered. It seems that there was a previously undetected<br />"bug" in the rovers programming.<br /><br />The bug shut the rovers communication down, with NASA, while the rover<br />made numerous forays and did experiments looking for oil and minerals. <br />It is believed that this bug was planted by Haliburton in an attempt to<br />get first rights to any raw materials that Mars may hold. The rover<br />resumed communications with NASA, at JPL, once the secret download to<br />Haliburton was completed. It is uncertain as to extent that Pres.<br />George W. Bush or VP **** Cheney were involved.