Spirit Dies? - Page 2

Pie · 12-22-2009, 03:42 PM

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Valles Marineris (MPI) - A spokesthing for Mars Air Force denounced as false rumors that an alien space craft crashed in the desert, outside of Ares Vallis on Friday. Appearing at a press conference today, General Rgrmrmy The Lesser, stated that "the object was, in fact, a harmless high-altitude weather balloon, not an alien spacecraft".

The story broke late Friday night when a major stationed at nearby Ares Vallis Air Force Base contacted the Valles Marineris Daily Record with a story about a strange, balloon-shaped object which allegedly came down in the nearby desert, "bouncing" several times before coming to a stop, "deflating in a sudden explosion of alien gases". Minutes later, General Rgrmrmy The Lesser contacted the Daily Record telepathically to contradict the earlier report.

General Rgrmrmy The Lesser stated that hysterical stories of a detachable vehicle roaming across the Martian desert were blatant fiction, provoked by incidences involving swamp gas. But the general public has been slow to accept the Air Force's explanation of recent events, preferring to speculate on the "other-worldly" nature of the crash debris.

Conspiracy theorists have condemned Rgrmrmy's statements as evidence of "an obvious government cover-up", pointing out that Mars has no swamps.

xoxoxoBruce · 12-22-2009, 03:58 PM

richlevy · 12-23-2009, 07:38 AM

Very well done!

Pie · 12-23-2009, 07:58 AM

Not mine, and quite old -- I think it dates back to 1997 when the Pathfinder mission landed. It had its own rover, Sojourner.

xoxoxoBruce · 12-23-2009, 02:39 PM

You still get credit for bringing it here, sort of a finders fee, if you will.
As a reward, your membership in the Cellar for the next year, is absolutely free.

Griff · 12-23-2009, 04:57 PM

Nice find Pie!

tw · 01-14-2010, 11:09 PM

Things are getting grim on Mars. A rover that cannot move can no longer perform science its instruments were designed to perform.

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Extrication drives were tried on sols 2138, 2140 and 2142 (Jan. 7, 9 and 11, 2010). Each of these drives employed a new technique of steering the wheels back and forth before driving. … However, even with these new techniques, little forward progress has been achieved. And excessive sinkage continues to occur with each attempt.
Both the right-front and right-rear wheel continue to be non-functional.

It just does not have enough horsepower to get out of a place called Troy.

glatt · 01-15-2010, 08:04 AM

Dude, stop being so negative. This thing lived how many years longer than it was expected to? It should be celebrated. It was a huge success. But every mission must end.

Pie · 01-15-2010, 08:32 AM

When I die and they lay me to rest
Gonna go to the place that's the best
When I lay me down to die
Goin' up to the spirit in the sky
Goin' up to the spirit in the sky
That's where I'm gonna go when I die
When I die and they lay me to rest
I'm gonna go to the place that's the best.

classicman · 01-15-2010, 10:28 AM

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Originally Posted by glatt

Dude, stop being so negative.

Thats like telling Rush not to be an asshole.

Not sure thats ever gonna happen.

tw · 01-15-2010, 08:17 PM

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Originally Posted by glatt

Dude, stop being so negative.

Its only negative if you are. Stated was a prediction based in facts. Nothing more.

Now to see negative, classicman just posted another cheap shot attack on Obama and other honest people. He even takes every oppurtunity to brag about the size of his penis - because he can put it in his mouth. See. That is what a negative post looks like - when it is also accurate.

Of the two Rovers, Spirit has been a hard luck story - even when it was in development. Spirit has been operating with a defective front right wheel. Failure of its rear right wheel may be its demise. Nothing but facts.

classicman · 01-16-2010, 07:21 AM

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Originally Posted by tw

classicman even takes every opportunity to brag about the size of his penis - because he can put it in his mouth. - it is also accurate.

I brag about the size of my penis because I can put it in my mouth?

AND thats accurate?

Tom, you gotta lay off the sauce - seriously.

classicman · 01-16-2010, 07:22 AM

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Originally Posted by tw

Things are getting grim on Mars. A rover that cannot move can no longer perform science its instruments were designed to perform. It just does not have enough horsepower to get out of a place called Troy.

All the bold indicate negatives - glatt is 100% correct.

tw · 01-19-2010, 07:26 PM

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Originally Posted by classicman

All the bold indicate negatives - glatt is 100% correct.

Cheapshots and wackoman. Synonymous. Another reality with no emotion connotations. It just is.

classicman · 01-19-2010, 08:32 PM

Its really quite funny - you've said you attempt to post without emotion, but is seethes out of every sentence you write.

Note: my post has no emotion in it either - just fact, yet your response . . .

12-22-2009, 03:58 PM	#17
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	__________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

12-23-2009, 07:38 AM	#18
richlevy King Of Wishful Thinking Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Philadelphia Suburbs Posts: 6,669	Very well done! __________________ Exercise your rights and remember your obligations - VOTE! I have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us so long as we have the courage to keep reaching, to keep working, to keep fighting. -- Barack Hussein Obama

12-23-2009, 07:58 AM	#19
Pie Gone and done Join Date: Sep 2001 Posts: 4,808	Not mine, and quite old -- I think it dates back to 1997 when the Pathfinder mission landed. It had its own rover, Sojourner. __________________ per·son \ˈpər-sən\ (noun) - an ephemeral collection of small, irrational decisions The fun thing about evolution (and science in general) is that it happens whether you believe in it or not.

12-23-2009, 02:39 PM	#20
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	You still get credit for bringing it here, sort of a finders fee, if you will. As a reward, your membership in the Cellar for the next year, is absolutely free. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

12-23-2009, 04:57 PM	#21
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	Nice find Pie! __________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

01-15-2010, 08:04 AM	#23
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	Dude, stop being so negative. This thing lived how many years longer than it was expected to? It should be celebrated. It was a huge success. But every mission must end.

01-15-2010, 08:32 AM	#24
Pie Gone and done Join Date: Sep 2001 Posts: 4,808	When I die and they lay me to rest Gonna go to the place that's the best When I lay me down to die Goin' up to the spirit in the sky Goin' up to the spirit in the sky That's where I'm gonna go when I die When I die and they lay me to rest I'm gonna go to the place that's the best. __________________ per·son \ˈpər-sən\ (noun) - an ephemeral collection of small, irrational decisions The fun thing about evolution (and science in general) is that it happens whether you believe in it or not.

01-19-2010, 08:32 PM	#30
classicman barely disguised asshole, keeper of all that is holy. Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 23,401	Its really quite funny - you've said you attempt to post without emotion, but is seethes out of every sentence you write. Note: my post has no emotion in it either - just fact, yet your response . . . __________________ "like strapping a pillow on a bull in a china shop" Bullitt

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