Mars Endurance Racing, 10 (or more) reasons why Oppy is like Le Mans |
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Mars Endurance Racing, 10 (or more) reasons why Oppy is like Le Mans |
 Jun 18 2006, 07:20 PM
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After watching the Le Mans 24 hours race today, dotdk and I came to the conclusion that Oppy is a lot like racing at Le Mans:
-------------------- PDP, VAX and Alpha fanatic ; HP-Compaq is the Satan! ; Let us pray daily while facing Maynard! ; Life starts at 150 km/h ;
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Jun 18 2006, 07:31 PM
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Let me add:
-------------------- "I want to make as many people as possible feel like they are part of this adventure. We are going to give everybody a sense of what exploring the surface of another world is really like"
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Jun 18 2006, 08:02 PM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14434 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
Don't talk about Le Mans....I am a fan of Radical and Aston Martin....and neither did too well
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Jun 18 2006, 08:45 PM
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 Interplanetary Dumpster Diver Group: Admin Posts: 4404 Joined: 17-February 04 From: Powell, TN Member No.: 33 |
Not sure what Le Mans is...NASCAR is the only kind of racing I really follow.
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Jun 18 2006, 10:32 PM
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QUOTE (tedstryk @ Jun 18 2006, 10:45 AM)  Not sure what Le Mans is...NASCAR is the only kind of racing I really follow. Attaboy, Teddy-Bob! 
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Jun 19 2006, 08:31 AM
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QUOTE (tedstryk @ Jun 18 2006, 09:45 PM) Not sure what Le Mans is...NASCAR is the only kind of racing I really follow. If we get any more stuck steering actuators we might be doing that too... |
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Jun 19 2006, 08:50 AM
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"Le Mans 24h" will turn to be called "Le Meridianii 24h32 minutes"
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Jun 19 2006, 03:39 PM
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QUOTE (djellison @ Jun 18 2006, 10:02 PM) Don't talk about Le Mans....I am a fan of Radical and Aston Martin....and neither did too well At least the Astons made it across the finish line. Both Spykers retired with techical problems  and Alex Yoong crashed the Racing for Holland Dome-Judd Still I enjoyed the entire race Can't wait for next year's event with Peugeot also running a diesel powered car. And the good bit is that it's probably is going to be a closed top car  QUOTE (tedstryk @ Jun 18 2006, 10:45 PM) Not sure what Le Mans is...NASCAR is the only kind of racing I really follow. Le Mans is an edurance race. Instead of driving a certain distance it's a race around the clock. The car that covers the biggest distance in 24 hours wins. Cars they race range from souped up production Ferrari's and Porsches to sportcar prototypes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/24_Hours_of_Le_Mans -------------------- PDP, VAX and Alpha fanatic ; HP-Compaq is the Satan! ; Let us pray daily while facing Maynard! ; Life starts at 150 km/h ;
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Jun 19 2006, 04:00 PM
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I can understand the excitement of being *in* such a race,
but watching cars circle each other for hours on end, relieved only by the occassional crash? I'm not a sports fan (now there's something that way too much money, time, and resources are spent on!), so maybe I just don't have the proper perspective. And what with the price of gasoline these days.... -------------------- "After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined,
and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance. I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard, and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft." - Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853 |
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Jun 19 2006, 06:35 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2922 Joined: 14-February 06 From: Very close to the Pyrénées Mountains (France) Member No.: 682 |
[quote name='DEChengst' date='Jun 19 2006, 05:39 PM' post='58925']
Le Mans is an eNdurance race! Oppy is an Endurance explorer -------------------- |
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Jun 20 2006, 02:45 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1636 Joined: 9-May 05 From: Lima, Peru Member No.: 385 |
The MER are so resistant for the marathon race. Well, who are the drivers! there were three turn per sol during 90 days and there is only one turn per sol or sometime every two soles. So the drivers is getting tired and the goal is so close with the flag "Beacon" on the view.
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Jun 20 2006, 11:45 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2454 Joined: 8-July 05 From: NGC 5907 Member No.: 430 |
Perhaps a robot race on the Moon or Mars would entice the public,
though I think it would just cheapen space exploration. Let this stuff happen when we have established colonies there and it is part of the local culture. Of course there was the famous solar sail race story by Arthur C. Clarke. It is actually online in graphic format, which you can find by Googling. -------------------- "After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined,
and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance. I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard, and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft." - Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853 |
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Jun 20 2006, 12:38 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2922 Joined: 14-February 06 From: Very close to the Pyrénées Mountains (France) Member No.: 682 |
[quote name='ljk4-1' date='Jun 19 2006, 06:00 PM' post='58928']
I'm not a sports fan (now there's something that way too much money, time, and resources are spent on!), so maybe I just don't have the proper perspective. And what with the price of gasoline these days.... ljk4-1, If you want the general public on your side, they'd better be interested in what you do. This is true for sport, this is true for Space Exploration. What you're saying remind me the neverending fight between manned versus unmmaned spacefligth. I'm sure unmanned spaceflight would be much much less developped if manned spaceflight never occured. -------------------- |
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Jun 20 2006, 01:06 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2454 Joined: 8-July 05 From: NGC 5907 Member No.: 430 |
Monster Truck Rallies on the Moon and Wrestling on Mars?
No thank you. -------------------- "After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined,
and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance. I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard, and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft." - Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853 |
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Jun 20 2006, 02:10 PM
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Interplanetary Dumpster Diver Group: Admin Posts: 4404 Joined: 17-February 04 From: Powell, TN Member No.: 33 |
Sounds interesting. I am originally from Bristol, Virginia/Tennessee (the town is literally split in half down the middle of its main street), home to Bristol Motor Speedway, one of the top NASCAR tracks. For reference, Bristol is a town of 42,000, but for every major race, the track sells out all of its 160,000 seats (at about $200 a piece!). It surprises most people that I like it, but when you grow up there, you kind of take it in by osmosis.
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