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Spirit Sends First Photo Since Troubles Began
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| Jan 29 2004
| By Robert Roy Britt
Posted on 01/29/2004 9:04:51 AM PST by Dog
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Spirit is back..
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posted on
01/29/2004 9:04:52 AM PST
by
Dog
To: ambrose; Phil V.; leadpenny
fyi..
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posted on
01/29/2004 9:05:41 AM PST
by
Dog
To: Dog
Spirit Sends First Photo Since Troubles Began...and it is quite ominous...
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posted on
01/29/2004 9:08:29 AM PST
by
StriperSniper
(Mine the borders)
To: Dog
Well, sort of.
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posted on
01/29/2004 9:08:43 AM PST
by
Blood of Tyrants
(Even if the government took all your earnings, you wouldn’t be, in its eyes, a slave.)
To: Dog
Spirit must have taken the WayBack machine ;)
http://www.spaceflightnow.com/mars/mera/040126spirit.html "Then, as we were getting ready to send the next beep command, the vehicle decided to communicate with us in one of its nominal communications windows at which point we got a little bit of data that had very little information in it. In fact, originally we started to decode it and it was from the year 2053 and we thought 'this is not good!' Eventually we found out the data was corrupted, and we were all cheering at that point because there weren't a lot of scenarios that would put us in 2053 on Mars."
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posted on
01/29/2004 9:09:22 AM PST
by
LRS
To: Dog
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posted on
01/29/2004 9:11:25 AM PST
by
Slicksadick
(Miserable failure = http://www.michaelmoore.com/ put it in your tagline too)
To: Phil V.
Spirit regains it's senses, sends back image.
Seems to be sitting right where it was last before it barfed it's brains out.
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posted on
01/29/2004 9:11:59 AM PST
by
Darksheare
(Responsible for killing more threads than anyone else. Considered armed & weird. Use caution.)
To: Dog
"Engineers have since determined that the problem appears to involve too many files overloading the onboard computer memory."
From what I have read on the NASA website, Spirit has 128 MB of RAM. You think they would have put more on it with RAM being so cheap these days.
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posted on
01/29/2004 9:33:07 AM PST
by
ryanjb2
To: ryanjb2
The RAM is radiation hardened, so is a little more expensive than your average RAM.
To: LRS
...there weren't a lot of scenarios that would put us in 2053 on Mars. :^) He needs to read more science fiction.
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posted on
01/29/2004 9:38:12 AM PST
by
Samwise
(There are other forces at work in this world, Frodo, besides the will of evil.)
To: StriperSniper
you have made me very angry!
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posted on
01/29/2004 9:38:15 AM PST
by
the invisib1e hand
(do not remove this tag under penalty of law.)
To: Dog
Engineers have since determined that the problem appears to involve too many files overloading the onboard computer memory.
I just
knew it. Spirit's running under Windows.
.
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posted on
01/29/2004 9:51:47 AM PST
by
Coyote
(the opposite of RIGHT is NOT left....it's WRONG!)
To: Coyote
More likely Slowlaris since it's using Java, even though Java runs better under windows.
To: Dog
Engineers have since determined that the problem appears to involve too many files overloading the onboard computer memory.Ruh Roh! Somebody downloaded some porn and didn't cleanup after themself.
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posted on
01/29/2004 10:15:57 AM PST
by
Professional Engineer
(NASA bumper sticker: My other Rover is a FORD too.)
To: Dog
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posted on
01/29/2004 10:30:02 AM PST
by
frithguild
("W" is the Black Ice President - underestimated until the left completely loses traction.)
To: Dog
Just wait! The memory will fill up again with Penis & Breast Enhancement Ads along with Advanced Degrees for $49.95.
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posted on
01/29/2004 10:33:12 AM PST
by
DoctorMichael
(Thats my story, and I'm sticking to it.)
To: RockyMtnMan
Are they really running Java on an embedded system?
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posted on
01/29/2004 10:54:44 AM PST
by
randog
(Everything works great 'til the current flows.)
To: randog
Not sure if the rover itself has a VM but the ground control software is:
http://news.com.com/2100-1007_3-5142220.html?tag=nefd_top My lego mindstorm (32k) can be flashed to use a Java VM and the JavaCard technology is ultra low footprint as well. There are a few cell phones that run a VM and I can think of a few other devices that use Java as well.
To: Dog
Abort, Retry, Fail?
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posted on
01/29/2004 4:10:48 PM PST
by
Imal
(Heed the need to read my screed. imal.blogspot.com)
To: Dog
the problem appears to involve too many files overloading the onboard computer memory. Martian kid having a little "fun" with us Earthlings no doubt.
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posted on
01/29/2004 5:41:16 PM PST
by
Indie
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