Mars Rovers: Still Trucking...

[Geronimo]

Originally posted by child of Thor
Its cool stuff - and unlike our poor (too cheap)effort recently, shows the way it should and can be done. I think we tend to think Mars is pretty near - i blame games like SMAC . But it gets crazy when you have to think about the communications delay from earth to Mars. Space is big, even near space!

The Viking probes were cool too!

Great! So you aren't a luddite afterall.

[BeBMan]

Bah, my old tv set worked over ten years.

[Ogie Oglethorpe]

Got nothing on the friggin Energizer Bunny.

[child of Thor]

Originally posted by Geronimo


Great! So you aren't a luddite afterall.

well you need to check out Sava's quote after mine - i think he was quoting me for the confused 'loves computers/hates silicon temptress' man i am!

I wrote those lines in a robot thread.

What i like about the space projects is that i really really believe we need to get to other planets and colonise them before we screw this one up and kill all life.

And also money and resoureces spent on space stuff is less money and resources spent on divising wonderfull new sophisticated and extra lethal ways of killing ourselves.

Space exploration
Computers=anti human

I've been stuck at that for 20 odd years


BBC article on the success of those rovers:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4577518.stm

[MikeH]

Originally posted by Arrian
To put THAT in perspective, remember that they're ON FRICKIN' MARS.

[Tattila the Hun]

I would have been mildly amused, if they had managed to crash them both... onto each-other.

[Geronimo]

[edit removed post to more relevant thread]

I think for all the success of these probes i still think it's a shame that we don't have the slighest permanent infrastructure established off planet. We really ought to have a permanent lagrange point station established by now.

[reismark]

Just a guess: I think we'll still be talking about Spirit and Opportunity in these terms next year. If they're not NASA's biggest Mars success yet, then they're gonna be very soon.

[Richelieu]

Three years and counting way to go NASA!

[Arrian]

RAWK!

-Arrian

[gwillybj]

Originally posted by Harry Tuttle
I can't wait till they send a bigger version of these rovers to mars. The next one should be about the size of a VW bug I understand.

Send me with it! I wanna drive it!

[Krill]

They are pretty well engineered peices of equipment...

[Wycoff]

Originally posted by reismark
Just a guess: I think we'll still be talking about Spirit and Opportunity in these terms next year.

Good call, reismark.

[Harry Tuttle]

Originally posted by Richelieu
Three years and counting way to go NASA!

No kidding. We must have done something right.

[Eli]

They'll be dead by next year. There's a limit to everything and the poor little rovers are approaching theirs.