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- BMNB1tches, on 06/08/2008, -6/+178They should have sent the PS3, it's a great dust collector.
- SkippyDoorknob, on 06/08/2008, -2/+131The Easy-Bake Oven lightbulb burned out
- inactive, on 06/08/2008, -10/+116Galactic Fail.
- DeePsix501, on 06/08/2008, -1/+102The little Aliens knocked it out of the tray
- Loonacy, on 06/08/2008, -4/+100You know they actually tested it, they're just trying to cover up the results.
Where'd I put my tinfoil hat? - nojingoist, on 06/08/2008, -10/+106***** thing sucks!
- mrsteveman1, on 06/08/2008, -1/+68I tried to put my tinfoil hat on, but it never reached my head.
I am investigating now - gerrylazlo, on 06/08/2008, -1/+59Makes a mild case for human exploration. I'm pretty sure a human can successfully scoop up dirt in less than a week.
- canyonblue, on 06/08/2008, -0/+56summary guys:
the "oven" has 8 doors for baking soil. each door is a 1 shot use oven, with no second chance once they turn it on. they opened door 1 but it didn't open fully but they dumped soil on it anyway thinking it should be open enough but what do you know, no soil got into the oven slot which is as thin as pencil lead. since they didn't actually turn it on they can try to dump more soil on it in the hopes some gets in, or they can write off door #1 and try with the next 7 doors, hopefully some of which open. the other problem may be systemic to ALL the doors and that is that ovens themselves only allow very small particals of dirt/ice in and the soil in this area of mars is much more clumpy then they thought it would be so that could be the problem. - renegadeafk, on 06/08/2008, -4/+54WE'LL DO IT LIVE! ***** IT!
- hadak, on 06/08/2008, -0/+41So, our probe has a vibrator?
- subliminalurge, on 06/08/2008, -0/+40It's lonely up there.
- verbose, on 06/08/2008, -0/+38To be fair, it does take some coaxing to get dirt on your instrument.
- parkamark, on 06/08/2008, -0/+38Someone forgot to remove the cling film?
- UKsHaDoW, on 06/08/2008, -3/+32D'oh
Should of made the hole bigger... - wonderchemist, on 06/08/2008, -0/+29Today we have thwarted an attempt by the dastardly probe from Earth to steal our precious Martian soil! It is likely that this probe will make additional attempts to attack our homeland. Martian High Command stands ready to defend it's people.
- Mohdoo, on 06/08/2008, -4/+31Either that or it is actually there but unreadable by our equipment!!
- Dundasbro, on 06/08/2008, -6/+33That's what she said.
- FreeTalkLIve, on 06/08/2008, -3/+26Macgyver could fix it with that CD, USA patch, and a little martian ice.
- nojingoist, on 06/08/2008, -2/+25They can keep trying -- it's not like that "grab an animal" robot arm in arcades where you have one chance for a quarter.
- Pfkninenines, on 06/08/2008, -0/+23If you've got a tinfoil hat, it's probably on your head.
- Frost9999, on 06/08/2008, -0/+22Wait until Japan sends a robot to Mars. It'll scoop up the dirt and do a little dance before flipping it into the smiley-face shaped oven opening.
- subliminalurge, on 06/08/2008, -0/+20Alcohol helps.
- Sh0rtcake, on 06/08/2008, -2/+21probably didn't convert centimeters to inches again. way to go, nasa!
- vspazv, on 06/08/2008, -3/+21You can't do it live. There's a 10 minute time delay.
- m0laria, on 06/08/2008, -1/+18I DON'T SEE ANY DIRT IN THERE!
- spacester, on 06/08/2008, -1/+17Whenever I look into the team that puts these probes together, I see nothing but Scientists. I rarely see Mechanical Engineers. I don't know about this team, at some point I quit looking into things that I know are going to piss me off.
I HATE bashing NASA, but this has been going on for years: the Scientists think they are superior to Engineers and the failures are ALWAYS things that quality engineers would have caught. That's what we Engineers do: make things that work. A person trained in spectroscopy and analytical chemistry and orbital mechanics just might not be the right person to design a soil sifter. Such equipment has been around for decades and it's just possible that the vaunted Scientists could have learned something from existing technology, but based on experience, I can almost guarantee that they 'reinvented the wheel' from scratch.
If all the doors are the same size, they are idiots. Why have redundancy if there is an obvious common failure mode in each case?
Good luck to them, I hope they find the problem and I end up looking like just another ranting digger. - LysolSCG, on 06/08/2008, -0/+15They should have also sent the 360 as the oven.
- Ninjab3ar, on 06/08/2008, -4/+17Should've, or for the grammar Nazis, should have.
- tidu, on 06/08/2008, -0/+13there's a rogue pack of Tom Cruises up there meddling in NASA's plans
- kilt42, on 06/08/2008, -0/+12Martian High Command stands ready to defend its people and to peek through windows at crazy people.
- CanadianRealist, on 06/08/2008, -1/+13I remember a reading last week that there was a problem with the oven door not opening fully They said at the time that they didn't think it would be a problem. Maybe it's time to rethink that one.
Or it might just be that the Martians are interfering, not wanting us to be able to do our experiments and learn that they have oil. - FeloniusMonkey, on 06/08/2008, -0/+12Compare to CVS-brand 256-bit Game-O Deluxe Gaming System. Save $56!
- subliminalurge, on 06/08/2008, -1/+13Not much, really. NASA's budget is tiny.
- Hello1024, on 06/08/2008, -0/+11nah they'd need too many solar panels to power it.
- marx2k, on 06/08/2008, -0/+11Sounds like me after a rushed programming project
- Frost9999, on 06/08/2008, -0/+9That would actually be ***** hilarious. "A close up photo of the oven door/opening has shown a shiny later of plastic originally designed to guard against contamination before the lander left earth." Doh!
- FeloniusMonkey, on 06/08/2008, -0/+9Armadillo shells work better.
- IVIrMP3, on 06/08/2008, -0/+9Windows ME is a better dust collector
- blast_flame, on 06/08/2008, -4/+12During all the excitement I guess I forgot NASA is just another government agency like FEMA and the military...
- bokep, on 06/08/2008, -1/+8the soil was sticky
- ThrowDirt, on 06/08/2008, -2/+9send Wall•E instead?
- freqk, on 06/08/2008, -1/+8***** thing SUCKS
- SquigglyP, on 06/08/2008, -0/+7knock off the retarded console war *****. If you can afford one of these overpriced piles of ***** you can probably afford both of them and a Wii to top it all off. 95% of the games come out for both, and no one really gives a ***** if one console runs it at a marginally higher resolution with a marginally better framerate. As much 'fun' as these console games might be, they're basically the exact same basic ***** that was out for the PSone with better graphics and neat physics. The only difference is that there' no more art direction anymore. Yeah there's a ***** of poly's but there' no style. Everything's brown and gray and way too shiny. The characters no longer have character. In a decade no one will remember most of these piece of ***** games.
In effect, aside from a few games that have been worth the purchase, I'd say that my 360 was ultimately a waste of cash, and the ps3's only saving grace is the fact that it plays Blu-ray. I'm greatly disappointed with both.
I'd take a SNES and 100 games over both the 360 and PS3 and their entire libraries any day, cause games are better when they're fun. - carpeclunes, on 06/08/2008, -0/+6Physics class: prerequisite to being able to talk about video games?
- NodOfficer, on 06/08/2008, -3/+9***** thing SUCKS!
- Professr, on 06/08/2008, -0/+6The maglev story is further down, nubcake.
- cgruber, on 06/08/2008, -1/+7That's not what she said :(
- newstart, on 06/08/2008, -0/+6I like your point that its better to first study existing technology instead of reinventing the wheel from scratch. It applies to every field including programming.
- Skooma714, on 06/08/2008, -0/+5They'd just another MALP through the gate.
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