…Strong signal is being received from the Rover, carrier is locked
by Goldstone, and the Rover finally settled right-side up. Landing bag
retraction will commence in ~2 mins.

And yes, the JPL folks are all over themselves with joy, and
deservedly so!

                                OM

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 poor dumb bastard die for his country."    | Human O-Ring Society

        – General George S. Patton, Jr

I was quite anxious when they lost the carrier signal, but when
everyone jumped around in JPL at 2355 EST, I couldn’t hold back
smiling! Let’s hope Opportunity follows the Spirit!

We’ve got Signal.

All our [Mars] Bases belong to us!

–
—
Greg D. Moore
President Green Mountain Software
Personal: http://stratton.greenms.com

…Damn, it never fails. Right in the middle of triumph, we get a bit
of tragedy:

http://www.montereyherald.com/mld/montereyherald/news/local/7556088.htm

…For those not aware of who Wah Minh Chang was, he was responsible
for quite a number of props on the original "Star Trek" series,
including the original Tricorder, the Romulan Warbird, and the
original 500 Tribbles. Chang was also an accomplished and reknown
sculptor, and among his credits are work on "The Outer Limits", and
some of George Pal’s "Puppetoon" shorts.

…The man was extremely talented, and probably the best recognition
his talent could have gotten was the fact that the scumbag unions out
in Hollyweird refused to let Chang join because it would have kept
several union members from getting future work because their work was
nowhere near what Chang was capable of in quality and delivery time.

Considering all the TOS talent that’s gone on beyond,
God/Yahweh/Jehovah/Whatever must be enjoying all those new episodes of
the "Dr. McCoy" show…

                                OM

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 his country. He won it by making the other | Sergeant-At-Arms
 poor dumb bastard die for his country."    | Human O-Ring Society

        – General George S. Patton, Jr

I’m looking for diagrams of high-power (hudreds of kW is good,
multi-megawatt is better) *modern* space nuclear power reactors. Don’t
need to be high detail, but I need something that I can use for getting
in the ballpark on dimensions, shapes, etc.

Print references are good, links are better, scans are best. Any help
would be appreciated.

–
Scott Lowther, Engineer
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Well, what a day!

Quick question: Does anyone know if they’ll work 24/7 shifts for the
MER support? Since both will land on opposite sides of the planet, and
with 2 (TWO) relays passing over quite frequently, plus the direct
Earth-Mars links with DSN, how are they going to manage to keep up
with the continuous opportunities for data and interaction?

I just hope that they won’t let them sit in the dirt idle for hours at
a time because they can’t afford the staffing. I’d volunter any time
to do the driving freely, anytime of the day! (Would look good on a
resume and/or a driver’s license )

Okay, just kidding, I know that every thing is planned and
preprogrammed and you can basically tell the rovers to "Go that way
and then if you don’t hear from us, take the opportunity to do some of
those things, in the spirit of science." (See how I got the two
rover’s name in there ;-P)

And when you come back to the office you just anaylyse strategic data
and lay out the next couple of day’s targets and upload it… I figure
that automation has progressed a lot from Pathfinder/Sojourner…

some pictures are here:
http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/home/index.html

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The NASAtanists and Earth pickers and enviro-satanists have done it
again thinking they no more about the Godly universe than He Himself
as said in the Holy Book. Matthew 24:29 says "the stars will fall from
the sky" so how can Mars even be big or far away? Mars is no bigger
than other lights when I look up there. The stars are really inside
the topisphere above us. Pictures can be faked in this digitalage more
than ever.

All we get from them are pictures and Lucas could have done them, he
was alive in the 60s too! They launch it last summer and dont even
tell where it’s going until yesterday so how do we know really? The
Mars Rover is another hoax to make us think we are not Central to Him
and His Creation. Same with environmental global warming and all the
other specilation by the spectacles and beards crowd. Moses and the
Son Of Man were the only proud wearers of beards. Science is Godless
and nature is not to be understood except by Him.

Steve

http://www.dragg.net/users/pennywitt/marvin/marsprobe.jpg

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On Sun, 04 Jan 2004 14:20:43 -0700, Sam Seiber

<Sam.Seiber1…@sbseiber.com> wrote:
>I still can’t beleive that so many things went right. While there
>is more reporting of the rover health due in today, it looks like
>things have been checking out fine.  The terrain at the landing
>zone is almost exactly what the scientists wanted.

…There is one thing that they’re keeping an eye on, and that’s the
initial high temp reports being about 10 deg higher than expected.
Since MER-A – and MER-B, for that matter – are a bit overinsulated
with regards to the cold conditions, there’s the concern of
overheating in the later afternoon hours. It’s not a big concern right
now as MER–A is not mobile and generating its own excess trapped
heat, but as the mission progresses it will be something to watch out
for.

…On a side note, I got a call from one of my website clients about
an hour ago. Specifically, three of the entertainers there were
talking to one of the managers about one particular aspect of the MERs
that…well, I’ll just quote one of them verbatim:

"Why didn’t they send up some sort of brush device to clean off those
solar panels when they get covered in dust?"

Out of the mouths of dancers – two of which didn’t even finish high
school – comes the Wisdom of Solomon…

                                OM

–

"No bastard ever won a war by dying for     | http://www.io.com/~o_m
 his country. He won it by making the other | Sergeant-At-Arms
 poor dumb bastard die for his country."    | Human O-Ring Society

        – General George S. Patton, Jr