Comments on: Mars news: good and bad

By: skeptigirl

skeptigirl — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 07:26:35 +0000

I thought the landing site was more flat. Looks quite different in these images.

By: A Ler…-- Rastos de Luz

A Ler…-- Rastos de Luz — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 14:29:58 +0000

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By: Lorne Ipsum

Lorne Ipsum — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 01:34:45 +0000

Sheesh, BA — don’t you EVER read your email?

The running theory isn’t that a bad software update took out MGS, it was a parameter update (McNamee apparently repeated a somewhat mangled version of things). More details here:

http://geekcounterpoint.net/files/GC052B.html

On an unrelated note, today (1/12/2007) would be the 100th birthday of Sergey Korolyov — the brains behind the Soviet space program. So if you like space exploration, toss back a cold shot of vodka for Sergey (you could make the case that he pretty much started the “space race” all by himself).

Lorne
(podcast episode on Korolyov on my site, too…)

By: tom sheepandgoats

tom sheepandgoats — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 22:35:44 +0000

Too bad for the Surveyor. It was a workhorse.

You can’t send bad software to computers. GIGO.

Look what happened to HAL! It wasn’t sent bad software. It wasn’t told to lie. It was merely told to withhold truth. And that was enough to fry its circuits and turn it homicidal!

By: The Bad Astronomer

The Bad Astronomer — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 19:56:01 +0000

Oops! Fixed. Thanks!

By: ruidh

ruidh — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 19:32:21 +0000

URL problem under that topo map from Pathfinder. Delete the extra ‘l’ in “.htmll”