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« on: August 06, 2012, 10:19:38 AM »
If you don't get it, I'm sorry, you're just not a geek.

http://xkcd.com/1091/

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Re: MSL
« Reply #1 on: August 06, 2012, 12:09:54 PM »
also, for you C programmers, here are the rules:

http://lars-lab.jpl.nasa.gov/JPL_Coding_Standard_C.pdf

They'd probably kick me off the project as I am infamous for writing bad recursive functions :D
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« Reply #2 on: August 06, 2012, 02:11:57 PM »
I tried to explain the excitement to Mrs Herself as akin to a woman giving birth, "I can see...a wheel!". She was not impressed. :(

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« Reply #3 on: August 06, 2012, 02:13:11 PM »
I really tried to stay up last night, but ended up falling asleep before 1. :(
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Re: MSL
« Reply #4 on: August 06, 2012, 02:20:22 PM »
Shame on you. But then I dimly recall my dad waking me up after I fell asleep on the couch to see the first grainy pictures of the 1969 moon landings on a monochrome tv the size of a curiosity rover.
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Re: MSL
« Reply #5 on: August 06, 2012, 02:35:29 PM »
we went to mars again? My pills put me out hard
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Quote from: ober on September 18, 2012, 10:27:09 PM
hey ethic if you and i were both courting lily allen..... oh wait, which one of us has a relationship that lasted more than the bus ride home?

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« Reply #6 on: August 06, 2012, 04:51:43 PM »
Aww... man. You mean we could watch it live? It might have been difficult but I would have tried to be in front of the TV or computer if I knew that.
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Re: MSL
« Reply #7 on: August 06, 2012, 09:47:49 PM »
NASA had a live stream, but it was mostly just watching geeks celebrate in the control room followed by some grainy thumbnails of dusty rover wheels... in other words, completely awesome.
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Re: MSL
« Reply #8 on: August 07, 2012, 07:45:13 AM »
tnpr had a cool story about the lead engineer behind the crane system a few days ago. I'm glad it all worked out :)
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Re: MSL
« Reply #9 on: August 07, 2012, 01:19:11 PM »
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« Reply #10 on: August 08, 2012, 03:27:48 PM »
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« Reply #11 on: August 08, 2012, 03:45:05 PM »
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Re: MSL
« Reply #12 on: August 08, 2012, 04:04:33 PM »
>>it really does look like you could just go outside and be alright.

that's what I thought too!

I wonder what the next step will be? A one way trip for a human being and just keeping them resupplied?
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Re: MSL
« Reply #13 on: August 08, 2012, 04:57:35 PM »
Those solar panels need some Pledge.
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Re: MSL
« Reply #14 on: August 08, 2012, 05:32:53 PM »
Quote from: ethic on August 08, 2012, 04:58:43 PM
I think we should build a prison there.

I support this
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Quote from: ober on September 18, 2012, 10:27:09 PM
hey ethic if you and i were both courting lily allen..... oh wait, which one of us has a relationship that lasted more than the bus ride home?
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