Old friend turns up unexpectantly, ...and in one unexpected place! |
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Old friend turns up unexpectantly, ...and in one unexpected place! |
| Guest_Myran_* |
 Dec 7 2006, 01:24 AM
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I had reason to visit Trondheim (Norway) a few days ago.
The biggest movie theater in this city covers most of a city block with entrances on both sides of the building, and no less than 3 floors of viewrooms! Interestingly they have named them after the planets, plus earths Moon the four galilean ones around Jupiter and a few others. But not ordered by size or place in the solar system. When there's no film showing the LCD screen display a small information about the planet or moon in question. So I took a walk around to see how they presented our solar system, and when I found Mars on the third floor I noted one old friend. 
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Dec 7 2006, 04:57 AM
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 Senior Member  Group: Members Posts: 1281 Joined: 18-December 04 From: San Diego, CA Member No.: 124 |
Cool - but why is MER being attacked by X-Wing fighters?
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"Zis is not nuts, zis is super-nuts!" Mathematician Richard Courant on viewing an Orion test |
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Dec 7 2006, 10:12 AM
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This, of course, is why MSL is being equipped with a laser
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Dec 7 2006, 10:27 AM
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What are you talking about : it's Mars 6.
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Dec 7 2006, 11:37 AM
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QUOTE (lyford @ Dec 7 2006, 05:57 AM)  but why is MER being attacked by X-Wing fighters? The Force is strong with this one... -------------------- |
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Dec 7 2006, 03:58 PM
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QUOTE (climber @ Dec 7 2006, 02:27 AM) What are you talking about : it's Mars 6. No its not. 
-------------------- If Occam had heard my theory, things would be very different now.
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Dec 7 2006, 04:02 PM
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QUOTE lyford wrote: Cool - but why is MER being attacked by X-Wing fighters? Well its a cinema after all, so they've added smaller images or rather icons from various known films. And first I though they were dragonflies, but you are right in this case its spaceships from the first Star Wars movie. The connection with the smaller images for each planet or moon was not always obvious, as in this case. The one for Europa showed one stylisized image of the cracks in the ice, one that must be hard to interpret for most people. Though the image for the Moon, Luna got Neil Armstrongs footprint was a striking and nice one. Whoever made these images certainly was a space buff. QUOTE climber wrote: What are you talking about : it's Mars 6. QUOTE ElkGroveDan replied: No its not. Please have a look at my image again - it reads 'Mars 6' there. What climber were referring to.
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Dec 7 2006, 09:19 PM
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Senior Member Group: Admin Posts: 4763 Joined: 15-March 05 From: Glendale, AZ Member No.: 197 |
QUOTE (Myran @ Dec 7 2006, 08:02 AM) Please have a look at my image again - it reads 'Mars 6' there. What climber were referring to. I agree that the words say Mars 6, but the graphic image certainly isn't a Soviet-era lander. It looks a whole lot like a MER sporting a few odd appendages. Here's another image of "Mars 6."  and Here's one of the Mars 3 lander alone, which would have looked very simlar to Mars 6. 
-------------------- If Occam had heard my theory, things would be very different now.
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Dec 8 2006, 05:26 PM
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QUOTE (ElkGroveDan @ Dec 7 2006, 10:19 PM) I agree that the words say Mars 6, but the graphic image certainly isn't a Soviet-era lander. It looks a whole lot like a MER sporting a few odd appendages. For sure! I'm just joking! I guess all of us here would made the difference between Mer and Mars Soviet lander. I mean, if by coincidence the words "Toilets or Exit or ..." were on the image I'd said that. BTW I like the way they draw a Mer as if it'd been a giant one on the red planet. -------------------- |
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Dec 8 2006, 06:51 PM
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QUOTE (climber @ Dec 8 2006, 05:26 PM) For sure! I'm just joking! I guess all of us here would made the difference between Mer and Mars Soviet lander. What's a Mer?...  Got a new Xmas present today...an anticipated one...The complete Sagan's Cosmos in DVD... Great!!! Lots of ours to go back and forth in time! I just LOVE Xmas!
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Dec 8 2006, 07:55 PM
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QUOTE (ustrax @ Dec 8 2006, 07:51 PM) What's a Mer?... We'd better stop it! All replies are OT! Sorry with the discovery of water I wrote Mer instead of MER
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Dec 8 2006, 08:13 PM
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Senior Member Group: Admin Posts: 4763 Joined: 15-March 05 From: Glendale, AZ Member No.: 197 |
QUOTE (climber @ Dec 8 2006, 11:55 AM) Sorry with the discovery of water I wrote Mer instead of MER Of course. There's a big difference between "a notion of water" and "an ocean of water".  (since we are playing with words today)
-------------------- If Occam had heard my theory, things would be very different now.
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Dec 11 2006, 11:38 PM
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QUOTE (climber @ Dec 7 2006, 10:27 AM) What are you talking about : it's Mars 6. That is an MER. It is Mars, and probably exhibit 6. Its shape is nothing like any soviet probe. -------------------- |
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Dec 11 2006, 11:43 PM
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I'm about as positive as I can be that the sign was over the door to theatre 6 of the cineplex, and was dedicated to Mars. Hence, "Mars" and "6" on the sign. No intentional reference was made, I'd wager, to any Soviet probes to Mars...
-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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Dec 12 2006, 09:06 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2920 Joined: 14-February 06 From: Very close to the Pyrénées Mountains (France) Member No.: 682 |
Just can't believe you didn't get I was joking.
Actualy the simplest the joke the more it works! Myran, I appologize for all the mess I put on you topic -------------------- |
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