Spirit - 2010 Winter@Troy, The first stationary science campaign |
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 Apr 1 2010, 11:02 AM
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And MER A is an it, not a she.
There. Now we've eliminated any trace of anthropomorphism. Is everyone satisfied? 
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Apr 1 2010, 11:32 AM
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QUOTE (djellison @ Apr 1 2010, 12:45 PM)  OMG Can we get real here. Spirit doesn't have any blood at all.  Did you twitt that to Scott? 
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Apr 1 2010, 01:28 PM
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Are we going to fight a battle against metaphor? Sheesh!
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Apr 1 2010, 02:18 PM
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QUOTE (tedstryk @ Apr 1 2010, 09:28 AM) Are we going to fight a battle against metaphor? Sheesh! Yes. We'll call it tilting at windmills. |
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Apr 1 2010, 02:38 PM
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QUOTE (climber @ Apr 1 2010, 11:32 AM) Did you twitt that to Scott? I was being sarcastic. CR can't criticise people for personifying Spirit, whilst still ascribing physiological properties and a gender. After 6 years, we're all grown a little fond of the "400 lbs of thinking metal sent from Earth"*. Ascribing emotion and personifying them is to be expected, and is entirely normal and acceptable for UMSF. * Scotts words, not mine 
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Apr 1 2010, 02:40 PM
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QUOTE (CosmicRocker @ Apr 1 2010, 06:10 AM) she is a cold-blooded robot. QUOTE (djellison @ Apr 1 2010, 02:45 AM) OMG Can we get real here. Spirit doesn't have any blood at all. Can we get even more real here? Machines don't have genders.
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Apr 1 2010, 02:43 PM
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 The Poet Dude Group: Moderator Posts: 5551 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60 |
QUOTE (CosmicRocker @ Apr 1 2010, 07:10 AM) omg! Can we get real here? Sigh. Yes, she's a robot, we all know that, but she's come to represent something bigger, something grander. That's what touches people, not the machine itself. There's always someone ready to pee on your chips, isn't there? -------------------- |
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Apr 1 2010, 02:43 PM
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Senior Member Group: Admin Posts: 4763 Joined: 15-March 05 From: Glendale, AZ Member No.: 197 |
QUOTE (CosmicRocker @ Apr 1 2010, 06:10 AM) she is a cold-blooded robot. I should caution you that Stu is part of the admin team. Even if you won on appeal, once you've been deleted you have to start all over again with a new username. Just sayin... -------------------- If Occam had heard my theory, things would be very different now.
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Apr 1 2010, 05:20 PM
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The Poet Dude Group: Moderator Posts: 5551 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60 |
Some unashamedly "rover huggy" thoughts on Spirit's hibernation...
http://cumbriansky.wordpress.com/2010/04/0...-shuts-her-eyes 
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Apr 1 2010, 05:27 PM
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It is not uncommon for humans to ascribe human characteristics/emotions to robotic machines. Especially by their creators.
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Apr 1 2010, 05:55 PM
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QUOTE (Stu @ Apr 1 2010, 07:20 PM) Some unashamedly "rover huggy" thoughts on Spirit's hibernation... http://cumbriansky.wordpress.com/2010/04/0...-shuts-her-eyes Still reading it, but when I got to this paragraph: Well, today was that day, and as I sit here now, typing these words, Spirit, our poor, brave rover, is sleeping on Mars, frozen almost to the core, and getting colder. Her pancam, navcam and hazcam eyes – which have shown us so many spectacular and magical views over the past 6 years – probably won’t take any more images now for several months, and, I suppose we have to accept, might actually have taken their final images. We’ll have to wait and see. I had to check it. This image below is the last one downlinked (not shot, downlinked) by Spirit ... for the time being. On March 22th, at 23:23UTC. http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/spirit/na...BAP1561L0M1.JPG 
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Apr 1 2010, 06:43 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2918 Joined: 14-February 06 From: Very close to the Pyrénées Mountains (France) Member No.: 682 |
This is an absolute very evocative image of what has been done and what is left to explore.
You can easily add in the up right corner Stu (or myself actualy) sat on a rock looking down at the plain at his feet. Thanks Eduardo. Thanks Spirit -------------------- |
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Apr 1 2010, 07:27 PM
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The most horrible part is not having an exact date. It's all up to Mars whether we'll hear Spirit again in the spring; if we don't we'll just have to guess when EOM came.... what a charged acronym that is!
And it's not bad, for a potential final image. |
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Apr 1 2010, 07:37 PM
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The Poet Dude Group: Moderator Posts: 5551 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60 |
Thanks Tesh, that's Saved.
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Apr 1 2010, 09:05 PM
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Seems like quite a bit was downlinked yesterday.
http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/spirit/pancam/2010-03-31/ Also, this Navcam sequence with a great dust devil. http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/spirit/navcam/2010-03-31/ http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/spirit/na...E5P1561L0M1.JPG -------------------- |
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