Life on Mars?

And they are having some real problems with their computers. We got this picture of one of their comps on the last bounced signal.

 

And here's our new "technical assistant's taxi"!
Would you bigc or Bj be the first one to go up there?
And then tell me afterwards if it's "safe" for me to go.



Uguel

 

Sure it's safe. It's kind of like a roller coaster.

 

I would but being science officer I still have a lot of data to check on my comp. If I finnish soon enough I will be glad to.

 

well... the safety of a roller coaster sorta depends on what you've had for lunch... I'd rather not take too many chances


Uguel

 

You deffinatly don't want to puke in a space helmet.

 

I think it's going to take you longer than you think. I traced the id signal from that burning computer and well, sorry to say this big c, but it's yours. You didn't by chance tap into the signal bounce did you?

 

I might have forgotten to get the last virusscan update

 

got the fire out but it still has a few bugs.

 

All the necessary data is on reply 135!

 

Is that what you call magic fingers?

 

Definitely not!


Uguel

 

That is the offical microsoft salute

 

Just in case we do run into aggressive aliens I have installed a new targeting computer that never misses.

 

Nighty nite!


Well I gotta go to bed now...
I'm sure i'm going to have happy dreams...maybe new gifs...


Uguel

 

See you after your refreshing sleep. happy dreams

 

It seems as though the trip to mars may be put on hold or canceled. So I think I will see if an ex spaceship science officer can get unemployment insurance

 

Well I found out why the mars rover didn;t phone home for a while. It dislocated a hip and was having a hard time for a while.

 

I thought it was phoning Haliburton about all of the Oil and Gassssss on Mars.

 

Well it does have haliburton colors

 

From Goonman

hee, hee, hee.


Okay. You can see Mars TV's coverage of the Opportunity landing at this link:

http://www.nasa.gov/ram/35037main_portal.ram

Takes a couple of minutes to start off


Uguel

 

Cool! I'm watching it now! Early indications are that no faults occured on landing

 

I would have thought the broadcast would have been longer but it didn't take too much time in the end.


Uguel

 

it seems.... Mars has lots in store for us... not only in terms of unknown things but also problems

 

Hi SUb! Hope you are doing better!



But they have resurrected "Spirit" and given birth to "Opportunity."

Theisinger and other NASA officials expressed relief that their roller-coaster ride had taken a sharp turn for the better, with Spirit on the mend and Opportunity in the middle of what one researcher called a "scientific jackpot."

"I came here prepared for a funeral, basically," Ed Weiler, NASA's associate administrator for space science, observed during the news conference. "Instead … we resurrected one rover and saw the birth of another today."

NASA sent Spirit to Gusev Crater, a broad depression believed to once have contained a lake. Opportunity's new home, Meridiani Planum, is a flat, smooth region that abounds in a type of iron oxide mineral called gray hematite, which typically forms in marine or volcanic environments rich in water."

from: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4042603/

Another interesting page: http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/home/index.html

Here's the biggest picture of Mars up to now.
Quite fascinating!

http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/press/opportunity/20040125a/Pancam_Sol1_Postcard_part.jpg



Uguel