Lost contact with the Mars Rover

[PyRo]

Duracell is better than energizer

[p8ntball1016]

They regained contact with the rover.

http://spaceflightnow.com/mars/mera/status.html

[Southpaw]

I think the best part of that link is the 3-D glasses so you can see 3-D pic from mars 80's Style what will the nerds at NASA think up next

[Warewolf50]

Originally posted by PissedGodzilla
ACK ACK ACK!!!! ACK ACK ACK ACK!!!!! (Hopefully you have seen the movie "Mars attacks" to get this one)

"we copme in peace" hehe I have seen the movie one to many times.

[Brak]

copied directly from that status checking site:

"we don't know what's broke"

im glad to know we have only the best and brightest working in this project

[Rooster]

"im glad to know we have only the best and brightest working in this project"

Maybe you should inform them about what is wrong. Oh wait, this is from a guy who doesn't know the first word in a sentence is capitalized.

[Warewolf50]

Originally posted by Brak
copied directly from that status checking site:

"we don't know what's broke"

im glad to know we have only the best and brightest working in this project

Hmm well i couldnt care less if these guys knew highschool grammar from english. They are geniouses in math and science, grammar dosent really relate to their field of work.

[Automaggin2]

Wow another one down the drain. Pathetic. I like that Microsoft picture. It wont surpise me if Microsoft gets into the space game Microsoft Space Edition 2004.

[impostal22]

Originally posted by Automaggin2
Wow another one down the drain. Pathetic. I like that Microsoft picture. It wont surpise me if Microsoft gets into the space game Microsoft Space Edition 2004.

try to keep up with the news..it regained contact w/ NASA

[cphilip]

Yea. It sounds now like things are looking up. Seems they have way of communicating. And some limited ability to use it. Maybe not as well as they had hoped but at least some way to boot it up every day and make it do some stuff. They at this point feel like they will be able to develop a way to start taking it for a drive in a few weeks. Using flash memory and stuff. Sounds like the main stored memory is corupt or something. But they seem to be able to get it to do what they want booting it up to volitile memory each day. Can't just send a tech up there with a new hard drive can they?

[Lohman446]

So.. its kinda like when my computer freezes and press the reboot button.. great

[cphilip]

No not realy. It's totaly different than that. Almost the opposite from that. Its like you had a bad hard drive sector and you windows would not load but you could still boot up in Dos and run some programs from your RAM and such.

[Latchkey]

Why would they send up such limited amounts of memory, only a few more ounces and a few hundred dollars more and they could have trippled what they are already using. Heck they spend $800+ million and thats all they have on board, they should have had a back up or something. It's not like they dont have the technology. I mean if they sell this http://www.go-l.com/desktops/machl38/features/ to the public, for a fraction of what they spent.

I just dont get NASA somethimes, there has to be a reason, but still. Like Muzikman said about the comp with less processing power than most calculators today, what has happened to them.

[Lohman446]

Originally posted by cphilip
No not realy. It's totaly different than that. Almost the opposite from that. Its like you had a bad hard drive sector and you windows would not load but you could still boot up in Dos and run some programs from your RAM and such.

Hmm... time to call my buddy and get that one translated (jking, I think I got it all)

[Will Wood]

We got new image! There is lifeforms on the planet!

Sorry.. I couln't resist