treatment Posted January 22, 2004 Posted January 22, 2004 http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/space/01/22/s...tact/index.html Quote
1st Border Red Devil Posted January 22, 2004 Posted January 22, 2004 Yea...too bad too. However...some Macross/Robotech fans should get a kick out of this video... Look! Quote
pfunk Posted January 22, 2004 Posted January 22, 2004 I told them not to run windows2000, but they wouldnt listen Quote
the white drew carey Posted January 22, 2004 Posted January 22, 2004 Tim Robbin's frozen corpse finally broke orbit and crashed down on it. My sucker fish, Pretty Bird, died yesterday as well. Coincidence? Quote
F-ZeroOne Posted January 22, 2004 Posted January 22, 2004 I suggest we all catch colds in one big hurry... I told ya the Martians were coming... ...the chances of anything coming from Mars were a million to one, they said... ...but still... Quote
Angel's Fury Posted January 22, 2004 Posted January 22, 2004 I suggest we all catch colds in one big hurry... I told ya the Martians were coming......the chances of anything coming from Mars were a million to one, they said... ...but still... WHEN MARS ATTACK! Quote
Druna Skass Posted January 22, 2004 Posted January 22, 2004 It got destroyed by a pack of disorder units... Quote
Angel's Fury Posted January 22, 2004 Posted January 22, 2004 The first was EU's "Beagle 2", second was NASA's "Spirit" rover. Hmm........ Quote
ComicKaze Posted January 22, 2004 Posted January 22, 2004 Tim Robbin's frozen corpse finally broke orbit and crashed down on it.My sucker fish, Pretty Bird, died yesterday as well. Coincidence? That was pretty freaky in that movie. Far more so than the hilarious results of broken face-shields in Total Recall. His suicide was insanely freaky. Quote
Montarvillois Posted January 22, 2004 Posted January 22, 2004 Gee wiz, I'd be a little bit worried if I was part of President Bush's manned initiative on mars... Cannon fodder anyone ? Quote
ComicKaze Posted January 22, 2004 Posted January 22, 2004 Yea...too bad too. However...some Macross/Robotech fans should get a kick out of this video...Look! OMG!!! Officer's Battlepod! Somebody @ NASA is a fan. Quote
Skull Leader Posted January 22, 2004 Posted January 22, 2004 It's gotta be the radiation... since it has almost no atmosphere, there's nothing to protect from radiation levels... and the best shielding we have will only work for so long. Quote
1st Border Red Devil Posted January 22, 2004 Posted January 22, 2004 OMG!!! Officer's Battlepod! Somebody @ NASA is a fan. You can thank rtsurfer for pointing this out. I thought it was funny as heck. Either they like Macross?Robotech or they are Battletech fans. Quote
Effect Posted January 22, 2004 Posted January 22, 2004 Sucks about losing contact but cool movie. Quote
Wabbit Posted January 22, 2004 Posted January 22, 2004 (edited) Martians Deny UFOs In Their SkyFrom our correspondent at Fok!: Gusev Crater (MPI) - A spokesthing for Mars Air Force denounced as false rumors that an alien space craft crashed in the desert, outside of Ma'adim Vallis on Friday. Appearing at a press conference today, General Rgrmrmy The Lesser, stated that "the object was, in fact, a harmless high-altitude weather balloon, not an alien spacecraft". The story broke late Friday night when a major stationed at nearby Ma'adim Vallis Air Force Base contacted the Gusev Daily Record with a story about a strange, balloon-shaped object which allegedly came down in the nearby desert, "bouncing" several times before coming to a stop, "deflating in a sudden explosion of alien gases". Minutes later, General Rgrmrmy The Lesser contacted the Daily Record telepathically to contradict the earlier report. General Rgrmrmy The Lesser stated that hysterical stories of a detachable vehicle roaming across the Martian desert were blatant fiction, provoked by incidences involving swamp gas. But the general public has been slow to accept the Air Force's explanation of recent events, preferring to speculate on the "other-worldly" nature of the crash debris. Conspiracy theorists have condemned Rgrmrmy's statements as evidence of "an obvious government cover-up", pointing out that Mars has no swamps. Edited January 22, 2004 by Wabbit Quote
the white drew carey Posted January 22, 2004 Posted January 22, 2004 Just watched the video. The beginning's hilarious! Somebody better tell HG that NASA's bustin' in on their copyrights with the Glaug-thingamabob-Teacher-Bot!!! Oh wait... HG doesn't go after big fish! Quote
Californium Posted January 22, 2004 Posted January 22, 2004 (edited) That's hilarious Wabbit Edited January 22, 2004 by Californium Quote
GreenGuy42 Posted January 22, 2004 Posted January 22, 2004 First off.... that's a real pity. I was REALLY proud of how the rover was doing... Secondly.. the Glaug... was.. scary.. ...looks like it's from the Zentran "Alternate Lifestyle" Battalion.... Quote
the white drew carey Posted January 23, 2004 Posted January 23, 2004 Secondly.. the Glaug... was.. scary.. ...looks like it's from the Zentran "Alternate Lifestyle" Battalion.... It does suck about the rover. But Humanity has to play catch-up with it's own destiny. It was the public's waning interest, even disinterest, in the Apollo program which sucked a lot of the energy out of the space program. What the world, not just the United States, needs is a strong space program. Every time something new happens, no matter who does it, the world gets excited. That excitement needs to be harnessed with the realistic promise of lofty goals, not just words to placate the masses or, as some might say, get re-elected. Instead of the forthcoming "space cold war" against China that's being hinted at, all countries with their eyes set on space should join together and achieve these goals layed before us. The Int'l Space Station was a good start, but it's obvious the U.S. and Russia planned and wanted to have the lead role. The space-race of the cold war was as much, if not more so, a tool of nationalistic pride rather than true exploration. It's time to shed that weak premise and do exactly what a majority of people want to do. Conquer the "unconquerable". Nationalistic pride is not conducive to acheiving these goals. A true space-race only has one opponent: Humanity vs. Itself. OK... I've been long-winded. Time to let this thread get back on track. Quote
Apollo Leader Posted January 23, 2004 Posted January 23, 2004 (edited) When you have this robot driving itself (with a several hour delay between inputs from JPL/NASA here on Earth) around on a planet millions of miles away, it could have hit a rock and flipped over, a storm could have came up... anything could have happened. Other then this snag, this most recent attempt to put an unmanned lander and rover on Mars seems to have been going quite well. BTW, for those who are interested, Space.com is a great source for space exploration related news and topics. Edited January 23, 2004 by Apollo Leader Quote
ComicKaze Posted January 23, 2004 Posted January 23, 2004 One has to wonder why the Viking missions were so robust and successful. The Viking landers operated from 1976-1982. Spirit and Opportunity are only expected to survive a few weeks to a few months. Could it be with all our new technology, that there are simply just more things to go wrong? Then again, the Vikings were nuclear. Sure beats the new kids on the block -driving 5 feet and then recharging your batteries for 12 hours and driving another 5 feet. Then you have to cycle your energy overnight to keep the parts warm or else the things would just lock up and permanently die overnight. Quote
Zentrandude Posted January 23, 2004 Posted January 23, 2004 ya successfull if you consider everything going to mars breaks down 2/3 of the time. Quote
ComicKaze Posted January 23, 2004 Posted January 23, 2004 ya successfull if you consider everything going to mars breaks down 2/3 of the time. Just all the new stuff. All the old stuff with good ol'plutonium made it. Then there was the Mars Polar Lander which crashed because NASA mixed up metric with standard. When are you guys going to switch to metric??? Quote
Zentrandude Posted January 23, 2004 Posted January 23, 2004 (edited) you have to remember during the viking project was running nasa had a way bigger budget than it is now. Edited January 23, 2004 by Zentrandude Quote
Isamu Atreides 86 Posted January 23, 2004 Posted January 23, 2004 (edited) all these worlds are yours except Mars. attempt no landings here. use them together. use them in peace. Edited January 23, 2004 by Isamu Atreides 86 Quote
ogami Posted January 23, 2004 Posted January 23, 2004 ya successfull if you consider everything going to mars breaks down 2/3 of the time. Just all the new stuff. All the old stuff with good ol'plutonium made it. Then there was the Mars Polar Lander which crashed because NASA mixed up metric with standard. When are you guys going to switch to metric??? haha... SI is the way to go. get rid of pounds, use grams! F=ma Quote
JB0 Posted January 23, 2004 Posted January 23, 2004 ya successfull if you consider everything going to mars breaks down 2/3 of the time. Just all the new stuff. All the old stuff with good ol'plutonium made it. Then there was the Mars Polar Lander which crashed because NASA mixed up metric with standard. When are you guys going to switch to metric??? You think the Polar Lander was first? http://www.bio.aps.anl.gov/~dgore/fun/mars...sscorecard.html Current score is Mars 20, Earth 16. Sure the Russians really ran the score up,. but we had our share of goofs. Heck, Japan even got in on the action with Nozomi. Quote
EXO Posted January 23, 2004 Posted January 23, 2004 Tim Robbin's frozen corpse finally broke orbit and crashed down on it. Don't worry, Val Kilmer and the guy he came out with in Heat will find it and use it to contact Earth right before they get attacked by that Karate dog robot. Quote
kanata67 Posted January 23, 2004 Posted January 23, 2004 I'm sure this is the reason: but I wanna watch the angry monkey channel Quote
F-ZeroOne Posted January 23, 2004 Posted January 23, 2004 all these worlds are yours except Mars. attempt no landings here. use them together. use them in peace. "NASA today denied claims that, shortly before communications with the Spirit rover were lost, it transmitted a picture of what appeared to be a large, featureless, completely black free-standing structure... " At least your (astro)-boy got to Mars in one piece. My own nations effort, designed as usual on the back of a postcard and built from spare bits of string and loose screws from DIY furniture kits, only managed to achieve a very limited terraforming experiment... ...its pretty likely it drilled itself a new crater on the surface... Still, at least the ISS is in good hands - Michael Foale survived the Mir, I doubt he'd be fazed even if someone tapped on the outer airlock cover muttering "Ackackackackackack... " Quote
gnollman Posted January 23, 2004 Posted January 23, 2004 According to this, contact has been reestablished..... Quote
Gerwalker Posted January 23, 2004 Posted January 23, 2004 I'm sure this is the reason: but I wanna watch the angry monkey channel Gir: -It's broken!! I think the marzoids destroyed it... The angry monkey channel rules!! Quote
bsu legato Posted January 23, 2004 Posted January 23, 2004 but I wanna watch the angry monkey channel [Zim] Ooooh, that monkey......[/Zim] Quote
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