:DVery amusing Attilio.
Rob.
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:DVery amusing Attilio.
Rob.
I wonder if the guilt thing shouldn't take over from the Turing test...
...and fortunately has not run much more common risks on our planet
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Then, like Liverpool there are several cities around the world!:lol:
Somewhat back to the original thread - Is it only me, or is it kind of mind blowing to see a a daylight pic from another planet?
/Niclas
Yes Niclas it's only you!
Bet you can't get a decent G&T there.:lol:
Kyte.:FOK:
Us old farts remember the same stuff from 1976 and the Viking lander :DQuote:
Somewhat back to the original thread - Is it only me, or is it kind of mind blowing to see a a daylight pic from another planet?
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Good stuff guys!
And yes, it is pretty damn cool to see pics from another planet!
Of course its "cool" but the mission isn't about pictures (they are really about publicity and future funding - if NASA wasn't putting out the odd photo every now and then the vast majority of the public would have forgotten about this days ago). The really cool stuff involves things you won't see pictures of.
Looking forward to hearing about the ice cold bits (one of my uni friends from years ago has experiments on the rover)
Yes, the ice clouds are very interesting.
The place where Curiosity landed is now entitled to Ray Bradbury the author of "The Martian Chronicles".
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So now into SiFi. My favorite is Starship Troopers/Armour and the Foundation series. Such great minds and great literature.
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Well to show you where my mind is here is another book in my library. Note the price so it will tell you how old this book is.
I love the Odyssey. Kind of Scifi if we think about it... :)
My Scifi favourites ever are: Dune (the first 3 books are awesome), The Dispossessed, The Demolished Man, Tiger, Tiger, Startide Rising and Martian Chronicles.
But at the time of 1st Edition it was more expensive than 75cents, I guarantee you that, Niclas.
I miss when books were cheap in Portugal. I was able to buy a lot of books. Now books are extremely expensive and the translations seem to be made by ignorant fools.
Hey its a paperback I bought years ago. Not written by Homer. I ment the price tells you how long I have had the book. A summer reading when in High School (maybe 1968).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulysses_31
They already thought of that one. :)
I have the distinct notion that I saw that animation series when I was a kid, but I can't completely recall it. But I much prefer this re-telling of the Odyssey:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZtgZ...eature=related
Good news! Curiosity moved: 4 .5 meters forward, then a steering angle of 120 degrees and then again another 2.5 meters, all in 5 minutes. It's not exactly as fast as Bolt but it is a first great success.
Bad news! One of the two meteo probes (used to analyze the martian wind) is physically broken.
It always struck me as one of those books doomed to lose its soul in translation, so I've never even tried reading it in Swedish.
Homer, on the other hand, is apparently much closer to the original in the latest translation than any English rendition. Though I'm not able to tell myself - Since the original text is all Greek to me.
/Niclas
Put like that, Curiosity moving slowly across the surface of a distant planet suddenly becomes potent poetic image.
In fact, curiosity moving at all speaks to me as a concept - I might try to work that into a lyric...
Something like this, perhaps
Curiosity stumbled
like drunk or half awake
from shadow to shadow
unable to slake
or still, its wistful longing
/Niclas
my job requires high availability to ensure continuity of service I hope that the second probe will be able 'to ensure data I would be surprised to the contrary. :confused:
About the speed is an Italian proverb that tells something like this: those who go slow and steady wins the race ;)
Lose 1d10 sanity...
Thanks Attilio. It all depends. The fun factor in a work can be measured in three pivot points: Pertinence of the work, Work atmosphere and Curiosity level. Two of these high and one low and you will have a funny work, even if a very mundane one. Of course that I'm not measuring working distance and personal factors (good health, etc.)
But I had in the past a work of my dreams with a terrible working atmosphere and the feeling that I was working for nothing and it was awful. So sending probes to Mars might be a fantastic thing, but...