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 Jun 6 2005, 09:48 PM
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"To The MER Team - They Always Knew Where Their Trowel Was"
42! -------------------- Remember: Time Flies like the wind - but Fruit Flies like bananas!
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Jun 6 2005, 10:26 PM
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QUOTE (Bob Shaw @ Jun 6 2005, 01:48 PM) "To The MER Team - They Always Knew Where Their Trowel Was" 42!   I really can't think of any pithy bon mots - these poor attempts I must blame on Monday-ism: "4 wheels good, 6 wheels better." "When in doubt, back it out." "Autonav? We don't neeed no stinkin' autonav!!!" or "Extended mission? I thought you said extended layover!" I apologize for the inconvenience. 
-------------------- Lyford Rome
"Zis is not nuts, zis is super-nuts!" Mathematician Richard Courant on viewing an Orion test |
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Jun 7 2005, 12:55 AM
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QUOTE (RedSky @ Jun 6 2005, 02:41 PM) "When Opportunity got stuck, they dug in, and dug it out" Of course that's not really the mechanics of it... but it does tie in with the trowel metaphor. It also states the action and the happy outcome, whereas without the final "dug it out"... it leaves the end of the story uncertain. To add another metaphor, perhaps... "When Opportunity got stuck, they dug in and plowed on." ("...plowed forward"? - nahhh) 
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Jun 7 2005, 01:49 AM
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How about just....
"When Opportunity got stuck, they dug in and got it out" or "When Opportunity dug in, they dug in and got it out" Not too clever, but maybe a combo with voracs above... "When Opportunity dug in, they dug in and plowed on" |
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Jun 7 2005, 07:06 AM
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How about this:
"To the MER Team -- when Opportunity needed to be dug out, they dug in!" -the other Doug -------------------- “The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.” -Mark Twain
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Jun 7 2005, 10:19 AM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14432 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
 That is a picture of the actual trowel - but not quite finished - the handle needs a smidge more work The spade end looks fantastic, and actually - the handle does as well, but it's had another two coats since that pic. I've found somewhere that sells backing wood and will do the engraving as well I think there may have to be a Golden Hammer award for the science team at some point Doug |
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Jun 7 2005, 12:12 PM
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Looks great, Doug.
How about this for the tag line: "No slope too steep, no dune too deep" A bit of a groaner, but not too bad
-------------------- --O'Dave
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Jun 7 2005, 12:56 PM
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"...and the unmannedspacecraft.com forum Doug in"?
-------------------- Jonathan Ward
Manning the LCC at http://www.apollolaunchcontrol.com |
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Jun 7 2005, 12:58 PM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14432 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
Oh..oh...very droll
 Doug(las) i.e. no spade on my head 
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Jun 7 2005, 05:46 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1281 Joined: 18-December 04 From: San Diego, CA Member No.: 124 |
I vote for odave's line:
"No slope too steep, no dune too deep" Unless you want to leave Spirit out of this... and I can't believe I missed "Doug in." It was right in front of us all along -good call ilbasso! Doug - the spade looks mighty fine! -------------------- Lyford Rome
"Zis is not nuts, zis is super-nuts!" Mathematician Richard Courant on viewing an Orion test |
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Jun 7 2005, 06:09 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 510 Joined: 17-March 05 From: Southeast Michigan Member No.: 209 |
I figured Spirit's scrabble up Husband Hill is covered under the "slope" part.
Note that I do not favor either rover - just like my kids, I love each of them for who they are
-------------------- --O'Dave
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Jun 7 2005, 06:17 PM
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"No slope too steep, no dune too deep"
Nice one odave - get's my vote too. It gets a lot in a slick tag line without being sounding cheesy to me. Well not too cheesy but it's more than snappy enough to pull it off. One minor nit pick - dunes generally aren't "deep" even though the probelm with this dune\drift was that it actually was deep. If you know what i mean. I'd still vote for this despite that though and it does cover both Spirit and Oppy's recent succes in extreme robotic geology. And to echo Lyford's comment Very nice trowel work Doug.
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Jun 7 2005, 06:36 PM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14432 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
'No slope too steep, no dune too deep'
Cracking. Doug |
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Jun 7 2005, 06:46 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3419 Joined: 9-February 04 From: Minneapolis, MN, USA Member No.: 15 |
QUOTE (lyford @ Jun 7 2005, 12:46 PM) I can't believe I missed "Doug in." It was right in front of us all along I noticed it, but I was assiduously trying to avoid saying anything about it, having had to deal with that particular maligning of my own name for pretty much my whole life...  -the other Doug -------------------- “The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.” -Mark Twain
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Jun 10 2005, 04:12 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 242 Joined: 17-February 04 From: Ohio, USA Member No.: 34 |
Or, perhaps, even more succinctly,
"When Opportunity dug in, they dug her out." |
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