BREAKING NEWS NASA says Spirit rover has failed to transmit data from Mars for 24 hours

[GoodToGo]

On CNN.com

 

[dquan97]

wow...waiting for details

 

[jfall]

That'd be a hugh waste of money

 

[dartworth]

 

[Nitemare]

Marvin has taken it hostage

 

[GoodToGo]

MSNBC Link has little more details.

 

[bubbadu]

All the cats on mars hijacked the thing....

 

[MovingTarget]

Well it appears they have made contact now. Nothing major, but at least the rover has communicated back to earth. More likely than not all is not lost, so given time they will figure this one out. From Space.com

 

[SunnyD]

A report also said that Spirit may be out of communications due to a large storm in austrailia over the long range radio transmission antennas down there.

 

[MystikMango]

It's a good opprotunity for Opprotunity.

 

[dartworth]

"It was sending a random pattern of zeroes and ones," deputy project manager Richard Cook said. "What it means is that the radio was on but the computer wasn?t sending information over to it."

AMD inside!:evil:

 

[y2kc]

great... more money wasted.. gotta love the (useless) space program.

 

[MacBaine]

Originally posted by: y2kc
great... more money wasted.. gotta love the (useless) space program.

Oh no! Things didn't work perfectly! We better give up!

Asshat

 

[dartworth]

Originally posted by: y2kc
great... more money wasted.. gotta love the (useless) space program.

 

[loup garou]

Originally posted by: y2kc
great... more money wasted.. gotta love the (useless) space program.

 

[Murpheeee]

must be Al-Queda

 

[EyeMWing]

Software glitch. Well, if it took out the first one, they have until the second one lands to reflash it (They actually planned to do that)

 

[ggavinmoss]

That sucks. Hopefully they can wake it up.

-geoff

 

[MoobyTheGoldenCalf]

Originally posted by: y2kc
great... more money wasted.. gotta love the (useless) space program.

I nominate this for the "stoopid-post-of-the-day" award!

 

[Nitemare]

Originally posted by: y2kc
great... more money wasted.. gotta love the (useless) space program.

Kids, you tried your best, and failed miserably...
The lesson is, NEVER TRY


Thanks, Homer

 

[SunnyD]

Originally posted by: y2kc
great... more money wasted.. gotta love the (useless) space program.

I'd rather waste money exploring space than watching soldiers die daily in a useless war that accomplishes nothing and drains money away from progress and problems within our country.

 

[MacBaine]

Originally posted by: EyeMWing
Software glitch. Well, if it took out the first one, they have until the second one lands to reflash it (They actually planned to do that)

The second one is landing on the opposite side of Mars...

 

[rudeguy]

Originally posted by: SunnyD

Originally posted by: y2kc
great... more money wasted.. gotta love the (useless) space program.

I'd rather waste money exploring space than watching soldiers die daily in a useless war that accomplishes nothing and drains money away from progress and problems within our country.

great...when the next building blows up, and 300+ people die, we can all say, "hey, at least we know that the martian soil has traces of salt in it"

the space program is a waste of money. Lets fix things on this planet before we worry about mars

 

[Passions]

It's all a ploy to ride the emotions of the American public in order to get Bush re-elected.

 

[MoobyTheGoldenCalf]

Originally posted by: SunnyD

Originally posted by: y2kc
great... more money wasted.. gotta love the (useless) space program.

I'd rather waste money exploring space than watching soldiers die daily in a useless war that accomplishes nothing and drains money away from progress and problems within our country.

Wait! I change my nomination to this stupid post instead!