Second Mars Rover w/ Trouble

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Shockwave

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Yep, shoulda used AMD instead of Intel with that horri dproprietary memory... ;)

Yeah, its still amazing they even got this far. As for spending the money elsewhere... Why? Your talking about a company with a budget of a small percentage of overall government spending. And that small percentage gets ALOT of media. Easy to point fingers at this. But what about all the elderly care? What about foriegn aid? Handouts to unemployed baby makers?
 
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JeffreyLebowski

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Originally posted by: z0mb13
Originally posted by: GTaudiophile
LOL. Next time we should have Toyota build them!
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or honda! :D
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But they want the craft to make it there and drive around sometime in our lifetime. If we sent honda or toyota, the craft wouldn't produce enough torque to get off their platforms.

And we don't need riced out space probes. can you imagine a rover with a 3 foot wing on it, altezza tail lights and indiglo fluid nozzels?
 
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XZeroII

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Originally posted by: z0mb13
Originally posted by: GTaudiophile
LOL. Next time we should have Toyota build them!
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or honda! :D
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Right, we'll have a chunk of plastic with a disposable camera bolted to the side hurled in the air by a giant slignshot. It will be so cheap that they can afford to send a few hundred thousand up there and hope that one of them eventually hits mars and takes a picture.
 
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matt426malm

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These two problems seem workable. Kudos to NASA for their accomplishments with these two rovers. However, if their is some where to throw blame it is NASA and not space exploration. If these two rovers fail giving up and saying we should use NASA's budget to throw a comparitivly small amount of money at some social problem would not be the answer. NASA could possibly use a bit of a fire lit under their a$$ so to speak. But I'm still not giving up on them they have had so many succesfull missions and two with a glitch is no reason to throw your arms up into the air.
 
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StageLeft

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That sucks.

I'm huge on these unmmaned vehicles going to mars and would have no problem with a few billion thrown at them here or there, but I was recently reading Time and the cost to send a manned mission to mars is just astronomical, and frankly a total waste of money unless technology can greatly decrease the costs (how does have a trillion sound to you?). Powerful rovers (that work a bit better) can do what people could do, minus the wow-factor, which I think should be left off until it's going to cost something reasonable like 50 billion ;)

Too bad Europe's beagle didn't work. That thing had ovens on it to analyze rocks!
 
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rufruf44

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For those thats so quick to critizes American craftmanship, the Japanese can't even put a satellite in Mars orbit :p
 
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dxkj

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Originally posted by: rufruf44
For those thats so quick to critizes American craftmanship, the Japanese can't even put a satellite in Mars orbit :p
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That's because all of their eggheads work for NASA?
 
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bozack

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The problem with NASA is their budget, simply they need more money to play with...people bitch and moan about 800 mil for a rover expidition but honestly that is pocket change when compared to other programs...heck I used to work there when the Clinton admin was in control and NASA was last priority, I actually commend the current admin for recognizing the importance and committing some $$ to them, maybe if they had an adequate budget they wouldn't have been relegated to using the same Shuttle for over the past two decades and could build and fly something decent.
 
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Kadarin

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Originally posted by: X-Man
Time to go whoop some Martian ass . . .

"You trying to be a hero!??"
"I just wanna kill some bugs, sir!"

;)
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:D

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bozack

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Originally posted by: Astaroth33
Originally posted by: X-Man
Time to go whoop some Martian ass . . .

"You trying to be a hero!??"
"I just wanna kill some bugs, sir!"

;)
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Where is the brain bug when you need him?
 
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nan0bug

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Originally posted by: bozack
The problem with NASA is their budget, simply they need more money to play with...people bitch and moan about 800 mil for a rover expidition but honestly that is pocket change when compared to other programs...heck I used to work there when the Clinton admin was in control and NASA was last priority, I actually commend the current admin for recognizing the importance and committing some $$ to them, maybe if they had an adequate budget they wouldn't have been relegated to using the same Shuttle for over the past two decades and could build and fly something decent.
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The problem with NASA is they're a beaurocracy, plain and simple. The space industry should be a privatized industry.

However, I do commend NASA for what they do. They do a lot of amazing things, considering all the crap they have to go through to get funding and how much of that funding gets wasted on typical beaurocratic BS.

 
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NickelTitanium

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Why spend the money when it brakes in less than a week?

I wish all the countries united to complete a base on the Moon. Cost of launching from the zero gravity is much cheaper.
 
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JimmyEatWorld

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I guess we tried to do too much with that old design.
anybody see the NOVA special?
All the naysayers in here should watch it, so they can learn to shut their ignorant traps.
Space is the future. Might as well get started now.
 
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