What I have never understood is that the device is supposed to land ± flat on the surface, so that the transmissions are sent out normal to the surface. What if a small rock tilts it?
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Brian (the devil incarnate)
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The single gets broadcast in the wrong direction which was one of the problems mentioned on the BBC article. Looks like it's a gonna though.Originally posted by Brian Ellis
What I have never understood is that the device is supposed to land ± flat on the surface, so that the transmissions are sent out normal to the surface. What if a small rock tilts it?Comment
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The world's tax money at good use.Despite more than 30 missions launched to the Red Planet since the 1960s, only three landers have ever reached the Martian surface successfully.
Jammrock“Inside every sane person there’s a madman struggling to get outâ€
–The Light Fantastic, Terry PratchettComment
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Two of those were the Viking Landers in 1976, back when NASA was still worth a damn. If you are going to do something, you might as well do it right.Comment
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And as I erlier stated:
Marvin must be up there with a mobile SAM station
If there's artificial intelligence, there's bound to be some artificial stupidity.
Jeremy Clarkson "806 brake horsepower..and that on that limp wrist faerie liquid the Americans call petrol, if you run it on the more explosive jungle juice we have in Europe you'd be getting 850 brake horsepower..."Comment
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Perhaps they have more success with a manned mission.Comment
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Let me be the first to volounteer, this planet is boring me.
Yeah, well I'm gonna build my own lunar space lander! With blackjack aaaaannd Hookers! Actually, forget the space lander, and the blackjack. Ahhhh forget the whole thing!Comment
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If they had the funding. Don't forget that Viking was a billion dollar project. They never get that kind of money these days.Originally posted by KvHagedorn
Two of those were the Viking Landers in 1976, back when NASA was still worth a damn. If you are going to do something, you might as well do it right.Gigabyte P35-DS3L with a Q6600, 2GB Kingston HyperX (after *3* bad pairs of Crucial Ballistix 1066), Galaxy 8800GT 512MB, SB X-Fi, some drives, and a Dell 2005fpw. Running WinXP.Comment
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It's way more than funding.. it's attitude. But yes, they need the money to do it right.Comment
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Still have to figure out that damn pesky radition problem they have when they leave earthOriginally posted by The PIT
Perhaps they have more success with a manned mission.
Why is it called tourist season, if we can't shoot at them?Comment
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I think it's great if it failed.
Why?
Because we try it again...
and again.....
and again.....
and again.....
and again.....
and again.....
and again.....
and again.....
Why?
Well, that just what's great about it.
I can't explain it.
But it is.
chuckChuck
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