After Victoria..., .. what next? |
After Victoria..., .. what next? |
May 28 2007, 02:07 PM
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The Poet Dude Group: Moderator Posts: 5551 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60 |
I know we've had rather light-hearted discussions about this before, with most people agreeing that Oppy is likely to end her days inside or on the edge of Victoria Crater, simply because there's nothing else to investigate within reach, but has Steve S got it in his mind that Oppy will head off somewhere else after Victoria? This report could be read in a way that suggests that...
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May 30 2007, 11:53 AM
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The Poet Dude Group: Moderator Posts: 5551 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60 |
Admit it ustrax, you just made that 'old saying' up!
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May 30 2007, 01:28 PM
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Special Cookie Group: Members Posts: 2168 Joined: 6-April 05 From: Sintra | Portugal Member No.: 228 |
Admit it ustrax, you just made that 'old saying' up! I surely did NOT... QUOTE and those years would be filled with day after day after yawning day of almost unchanging scenery... Not if you follow the three Victorias path... Doug...who's talking about leaving right now towards Ithaca? I'm quite aware of the work already done and waiting to be done, about the possiblity of getting back to Erebus, and other possible near targets... But after that? Is Opportunity going to be parked? Or, time and funds permitting so, embark on a new journey untill it stops working for good? You are seing the Ithaca journey scenario discussion in a very linear way, as if we were saying that the rover start moving NOW and not stopping untill it gets there... It's not a journey to Ithaca, it's a journey that might take us there... Is it so idiotic to think that Opportunity may start a new trek on that direction? If it gets there, great, if it doesn't there are interesting targets on the way, like the three Victorias, that could enlarge our knowledge about Meridiani... Let me just add some romantic crap powder and say that this verses will always make an incredible sense to me: "... Keep Ithaca always on your mind. Arriving there is what you are destined for. But do not hurry the journey at all. Better if it lasts for years, so you are old by the time you reach the island, wealthy with all you have gained on the way, not expecting Ithaca to make you rich. Ithaca gave you the marvelous journey. Without her you would not have set out. She has nothing left to give you now. And if you find her poor, Ithaca won't have fooled you. Wise as you will have become, so full of experience, you will have understood by then what these Ithacas mean." K. Kavafis -------------------- "Ride, boldly ride," The shade replied, "If you seek for Eldorado!"
Edgar Alan Poe |
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