Mars Rover Spirit Falls Silent ...

[MrFun]

So THAT was the problem.

[Paul Hanson]

It probably ran into the wreck of Beagle 2 and damaged itself beyond all repair.

[Zopperoni]

Originally posted by Japher
The ultimate Robot War on Mars!!!

Beagle vs. Spirit, who will win?!!!

That reminded me of this comic from Real Life Comics:

[yavoon]

Originally posted by bfg9000
NASA officials work around the clock to get this problem fixed, costing taxpayers $$$ in overtime.

In a related story, old person freezes to death in a rundown innercity dwelling without heat in the Northeast because of insufficient funding of social programs to reach her and give assistance.

maybe she should have gotten a job at NASA.

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by bfg9000
NASA officials work around the clock to get this problem fixed, costing taxpayers $$$ in overtime.

In a related story, old person freezes to death in a rundown innercity dwelling without heat in the Northeast because of insufficient funding of social programs to reach her and give assistance.

Yes, because we know for certain if we hadn't spent the money at NASA, we would have a full social safety net. Spend your tax cut yet?

[Brundlefly]

Do you remember that cable show where people would build these killer robots and then compete against each other trying to destroy each others robot and avoid dangerous obstacles by remote control? I think the winner of this contest is qualified to go to Mars. Did NASA ever enter their pvssy bot in this contest? I dont think so.

[Brundlefly]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara


Yes, because we know for certain if we hadn't spent the money at NASA, we would have a full social safety net. Spend your tax cut yet?

Well, since you're fond of making wild assumptions about the usage of federal tax money without Bush's guidance, I'll make a wild assumption of my own: Since Bush's proposed Mars exploration initiative includes people walking on the red planet , maybe your suggestion is that we take the old woman in my example and put her on a spaceship to Mars. That way we dont have to think about her anymore, right?

The money that would have been available if NASA wasnt using it would go a long way towards building a social safety net.

No I didnt spend my tax cut. I'm middle class - I didnt get one.

[yavoon]

Originally posted by bfg9000


Well, since you're fond of making wild assumptions about the usage of federal tax money without Bush's guidance, I'll make a wild assumption of my own: Since Bush's proposed Mars exploration initiative includes people walking on the red planet , maybe your suggestion is that we take the old woman in my example and put her on a spaceship to Mars. That way we dont have to think about her anymore, right?

The money that would have been available if NASA wasnt using it would go a long way towards building a social safety net.

No I didnt spend my tax cut. I'm middle class - I didnt get one.

yes lets abolish a program that accomplishes something and replace it w/ a program that gives money to ppl who accomplish nothing.

I bet thats how all great nations are built.

[Brundlefly]

Originally posted by yavoon


yes lets abolish a program that accomplishes something and replace it w/ a program that gives money to ppl who accomplish nothing.

I bet thats how all great nations are built.

Yeah lets just take the old, the feeble, the indigent and put them on a barge, send it out into the ocean, and fire a torpedo into it. Who do they think they are for being too sick or too dumb or too unskilled to support themselves. We're better off without them.

[yavoon]

Originally posted by bfg9000


Yeah lets just take the old, the feeble, the indigent and put them on a barge, send it out into the ocean, and fire a torpedo into it. Who do they think they are for being too sick or too dumb or too unskilled to support themselves. We're better off without them.

yes because obviously since I don't want to scrap NASA and revert all funding from something that has given us innumerable technological advances and is leading the way towards our invariably future(if we have one) which is outside the planet earth. I obviously must want to slaughter all poor ppl.

u pegged me good.

[Sprayber]

Originally posted by yavoon


yes lets abolish a program that accomplishes something and replace it w/ a program that gives money to ppl who accomplish nothing.

I bet thats how all great nations are built.

What exactly is NASA accomplishing???? So far they have only managed to litter the Martian landscape with expensive toys.

[yavoon]

Originally posted by Sprayber


What exactly is NASA accomplishing???? So far they have only managed to litter the Martian landscape with expensive toys.

obviously u r grossly uninformed.

[Sprayber]

Originally posted by yavoon


obviously u r grossly uninformed.

Well inform me ole mighty one


How has this little trip to Mars helped me

[Brundlefly]

Originally posted by yavoon


yes because obviously since I don't want to scrap NASA and revert all funding from something that has given us innumerable technological advances and is leading the way towards our invariably future(if we have one) which is outside the planet earth. I obviously must want to slaughter all poor ppl.

u pegged me good.

I dont think that you want to "slaughter all poor ppl", but you obviously dont place much value in them. That we would make tech advances from manned flight to Mars is presumptuous. Do you really feel we urgently need to put a man on Mars for any reason? We are one of the most populous countries in the world and it is more important to tend to our infrastructure than go on some nationalistic tromp into space. Lets face it - this is all political posturing by Bush. He wants to paint himself as a pioneer in an election year because young voters would closely identify with that image.

[yavoon]

Originally posted by bfg9000


I dont think that you want to "slaughter all poor ppl", but you obviously dont place much value in them. That we would make tech advances from manned flight to Mars is presumptuous. Do you really feel we urgently need to put a man on Mars for any reason? We are one of the most populous countries in the world and it is more important to tend to our infrastructure than go on some nationalistic tromp into space. Lets face it - this is all political posturing by Bush. He wants to paint himself as a pioneer in an election year because young voters would closely identify with that image.

it will always be important to attend to our infrastructure and our poor. I'm sure its political posturing by bush.

NEVERTHELESS if we ignore space, spend all our time building bigger apartment buildings to cram more ppl while feeding them all rice and paying ppl not to work. we will be utterly pathetic failures as a species.