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Aug 7 2012, 01:33 PM
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Senior Member Group: Admin Posts: 3108 Joined: 21-December 05 From: Canberra, Australia Member No.: 615 |
Not yet. I still have every one one of them on the harddrive and backup drive though.
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Sep 13 2012, 04:31 AM
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#137
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Administrator Group: Admin Posts: 5172 Joined: 4-August 05 From: Pasadena, CA, USA, Earth Member No.: 454 |
Astro0, I just noticed the ghost of Spirit in the current banner and had a sad. She's still missed!
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Sep 13 2012, 04:45 AM
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Senior Member Group: Admin Posts: 3108 Joined: 21-December 05 From: Canberra, Australia Member No.: 615 |
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Sep 13 2012, 05:29 AM
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Administrator Group: Admin Posts: 5172 Joined: 4-August 05 From: Pasadena, CA, USA, Earth Member No.: 454 |
Someone on Twitter (astronomer Alex Parker) just HAD to point out that if Spirit is incorporeal, so should Sojourner be. Unless it's a zombie Sojourner. Interesting thought.
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Sep 13 2012, 08:02 AM
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Senior Member Group: Admin Posts: 3108 Joined: 21-December 05 From: Canberra, Australia Member No.: 615 |
Hmm, we know that the Pathfinder mother station stopped working, but no one knows if Sojourner gave up the ghost! Just sayin'
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Sep 14 2012, 03:35 AM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8785 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
All hail Zombie Sojourner!!!
Yeah, I had a sad too for Spirit, Astro0. But, wow, your work just knocks my eyes out, every time. Good thing I keep a spare set in my chest compartment... -------------------- A few will take this knowledge and use this power of a dream realized as a force for change, an impetus for further discovery to make less ancient dreams real.
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Sep 14 2012, 05:46 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 470 Joined: 24-March 04 From: Finland Member No.: 63 |
LOL at Phil-o-vision and Zombie Sojourner. I can imagine her still roaming the Ares Vallis for CPU brains.
Also mention of the far away hills brought to mind Twin Peaks and how we would never even try to get there. How have the scales of the distances and ambitions changed. -------------------- Antti Kuosmanen
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Oct 11 2012, 11:31 PM
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Senior Member Group: Admin Posts: 3108 Joined: 21-December 05 From: Canberra, Australia Member No.: 615 |
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Oct 12 2012, 03:02 AM
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Member Group: Admin Posts: 976 Joined: 29-September 06 From: Pasadena, CA - USA Member No.: 1200 |
I second your salute to the DSN stations. I don't know where *I* would be without them but surely all the BUDs of SoCal would have been horded and assembled by JPL to talk to our probes. Sort of like a VLABUD (very large array of big ugly dishes) ;-)
Paolo -------------------- Disclaimer: all opinions, ideas and information included here are my own,and should not be intended to represent opinion or policy of my employer.
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Dec 2 2012, 09:12 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 205 Joined: 14-April 06 From: Seattle, WA Member No.: 745 |
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Dec 2 2012, 10:23 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2105 Joined: 13-February 10 From: Ontario Member No.: 5221 |
Yes, it looks very nice; though technically it all began with the Luna probes in the late 1950s. A trip to the Moon counts as 'unmanned spaceflight'!
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Dec 2 2012, 11:10 PM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8785 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
Mariner 2 was the first successful interplanetary mission. Who said anything about it being the first successful UMSF?
That would be Sputnik I, if you want to be completely pedantic about it. -------------------- A few will take this knowledge and use this power of a dream realized as a force for change, an impetus for further discovery to make less ancient dreams real.
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Dec 3 2012, 12:31 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2105 Joined: 13-February 10 From: Ontario Member No.: 5221 |
True, and with all those 50 year commemorations on the first couple pages of the thread, they're represented well.
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Dec 3 2012, 04:27 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 808 Joined: 10-October 06 From: Maynard Mass USA Member No.: 1241 |
Thanks Astro0, for the Mariner 2 logo... it made me remember...
I remember the newspapers describing the launch in the summer of '62. My Dad (a WWII Big-Red-One vet and ham radio guy) would always make sure we read the 'space' articles. We would sit around the kitchen table after dinner, and since we all couldn't read it at the same time, one of us (5 kids) would be tasked to read 'the interesting news' out loud (as Dad called it). That night, the interesting news was that "we where actually going to Venus!". Then later in that winter, I remember that we were reading about what Mariner 2 had found. The big news was that the surface was scorching! No life there, we all concluded. (no images either, that would have to wait for Mariner 10, I think) Its kind of quaint (in this fast paced internet age) how we depended upon the newspapers back then for our 'real time' space info. Our huge kitchen table was the center of our life. We had a 5x3 blackboard on one wall of the kitchen, with chalk and erasers so that any one of us could explain or develop a problem or just draw. It was where we shared meals, read the papers, did our homework, debated everything, and learned about the world...and all the while Dad's old Hallicrafters SB-40 radio was always on, softly audible from its shelf in the "pantry/Ham Radio Shack" off the kitchen, tuned to WBZ news. Those 50 years have really zipped by... I miss Dad, he would have loved the news from all the space craft 'out there' today. -------------------- CLA CLL
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Dec 18 2012, 01:26 PM
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Senior Member Group: Admin Posts: 3108 Joined: 21-December 05 From: Canberra, Australia Member No.: 615 |
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