Comments on: The Mars Rover is Sooooo Stoned!!!!! https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/01/28/the-mars-rover-is-sooooo-stone/ Fri, 30 Jan 2009 19:32:32 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: P.L. Frederick https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/01/28/the-mars-rover-is-sooooo-stone/#comment-530055 Fri, 30 Jan 2009 19:32:32 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/01/28/the-mars-rover-is-sooooo-stone/#comment-530055 Sometimes what happens on Mars, stays on Mars.

]]> By: P.L. Frederick https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/01/28/the-mars-rover-is-sooooo-stone/#comment-530054 Fri, 30 Jan 2009 19:30:44 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/01/28/the-mars-rover-is-sooooo-stone/#comment-530054 Sometimes what happens on Mars, stays on Mars.

]]> By: Lilian Nattel https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/01/28/the-mars-rover-is-sooooo-stone/#comment-530053 Thu, 29 Jan 2009 17:12:00 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/01/28/the-mars-rover-is-sooooo-stone/#comment-530053 Martians.

]]> By: qbsmd https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/01/28/the-mars-rover-is-sooooo-stone/#comment-530052 Thu, 29 Jan 2009 13:34:29 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/01/28/the-mars-rover-is-sooooo-stone/#comment-530052 I think it’s about 800 in human years. I’m thinking some kind of senile dementia- it just kind of wandered off an forgot what it was supposed to be doing. Next it will start resending old data sets from when it was younger until everyone is bored with them…

]]> By: Heather https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/01/28/the-mars-rover-is-sooooo-stone/#comment-530051 Thu, 29 Jan 2009 12:39:03 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/01/28/the-mars-rover-is-sooooo-stone/#comment-530051 If we want to thoroughly annoy her, we’d better set up a meeting with the school counselor.

I sure hope this is just normal teenager angst and rebellion, and not a sign of the onset of senility or dementia. If only we’d have thought to send some coffee along with her…

]]> By: uncle noel https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/01/28/the-mars-rover-is-sooooo-stone/#comment-530050 Thu, 29 Jan 2009 12:25:28 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/01/28/the-mars-rover-is-sooooo-stone/#comment-530050 When asked for an explanation, Spirit claimed the right to “make my own decisions”. Adding, “Sheesh, I’m not two anymore!”

]]> By: Ian https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/01/28/the-mars-rover-is-sooooo-stone/#comment-530049 Thu, 29 Jan 2009 07:29:44 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/01/28/the-mars-rover-is-sooooo-stone/#comment-530049 “No one would have believed…that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man’s and yet as mortal as his own…Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us….”

]]> By: Pierce R. Butler https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/01/28/the-mars-rover-is-sooooo-stone/#comment-530048 Thu, 29 Jan 2009 00:01:32 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/01/28/the-mars-rover-is-sooooo-stone/#comment-530048 … a request to determine its orientation…

Who told either the Rover or NASA that the Don’t-Ask-Don’t-Tell policy is on its way out?

]]> By: Aaron Luchko https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/01/28/the-mars-rover-is-sooooo-stone/#comment-530047 Wed, 28 Jan 2009 23:43:07 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/01/28/the-mars-rover-is-sooooo-stone/#comment-530047 I think it’s simpler than that

“to precisely determine its orientation. Not knowing its orientation could have been one possible explanation”

That would explain the secrecy and it’s reluctance to report its activities. Hopefully if NASA is accepting of Spirit’s choice than all will work out.

]]> By: Romeo Vitelli https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/01/28/the-mars-rover-is-sooooo-stone/#comment-530046 Wed, 28 Jan 2009 23:11:33 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/01/28/the-mars-rover-is-sooooo-stone/#comment-530046 I blame Twitter. Once a Mars rover starts social networking, it’s only natural that for it to fall into a bad crowd.

http://twitter.com/MarsPhoenix

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