David Spain wrote:
Well, I'd suggest a landing technology similar to that used for
the Mars Exploration Rovers would work well....

;-)


I never saw that movie, which was supposed to suck.
Ever notice three odd things about "Robinson Crusoe On Mars"?
1.) They abandon the Eleanor M because it's decaying out of orbit... but
somehow after they land it goes right on orbiting, with an perigee that
appears to be around 2,000 feet.
2.) At the end of the movie they are dying of thirst while walking
around in a snowstorm. Unless that's CO2 snow they could just eat it.
3.) Christopher Draper never makes the slightest attempt to determine if
the alien Friday might have a vagina rather than a penis. If "he" was
actually sort of a "she" this could change the whole timbre of the
movie. Don't knock this concept; if that had been Commander William
Riker, that's the _first_ thing he would have checked. :-)

Pat