Re: Mars Rover Not Responding
From: Alan Balmer (albalmer_at_att.net)
Date: 01/23/04
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Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 11:10:16 -0700
On Thu, 22 Jan 2004 17:24:19 -0800, Uncle Al <UncleAl0@hate.spam.net>
wrote:
>"Michael N. Christoff" wrote:
>>
>> "This is a serious problem. This is an extremely serious anomaly," said Pete
>> Theisinger Spirit project manager.
>> "There is no single fault that explains all the observables."
>>
>> "...but Spirit was only transmitting "pseudo-noise", a random series of
>> zeroes and ones in binary code and not anything the scientists could
>> decipher."
>>
>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3421071.stm
>
>NASA is renowned for its antenna failures - the Hubble space
>telescope, Ulysses at Jupiter, and now their little radio-controlled
>go-cart on Mars.
Since they're getting good signal, but meaningless data, the antenna
is not likely to be the problem, is it?
>
>Uncle Al eagerly anticipates a Hummer-2 advert beginning with the $240
>million pigmy brain fart that couldn't call home. Anticipating that
>its working life would be less than 90 days because of dust
>accumulating on its solar panels is also precious. Hey NASA, "blow
>job."
>
>One presumes the same engineering glitch is in the other rover.
I wouldn't "presume" anything without considerably more data.
Actually, I would - I presume that NASA has people working on the
problem that are at least as competent as you are ;-)
-- Al Balmer Balmer Consulting removebalmerconsultingthis@att.net
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