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Great Martian Ghoul: chances of feasting on Curiousity?
Anyone here care to hazard a guess as to whether or not The Great
Martian Ghoul will feast on Curiousity? JPL's had a good record at Mars, so I'm willing to say 75/25 the rover gets to the surface. |
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Great Martian Ghoul: chances of feasting on Curiousity?
"Matt Wiser" wrote in message ... Anyone here care to hazard a guess as to whether or not The Great Martian Ghoul will feast on Curiousity? JPL's had a good record at Mars, so I'm willing to say 75/25 the rover gets to the surface. Does the Ghoul get credit for sucking capabillity out of the RTG pre-launch? |
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Great Martian Ghoul: chances of feasting on Curiousity?
On Nov 11, 8:46*am, "Val Kraut" wrote:
"Matt Wiser" wrote in message ... Anyone here care to hazard a guess as to whether or not The Great Martian Ghoul will feast on Curiousity? JPL's had a good record at Mars, so I'm willing to say 75/25 the rover gets to the surface. Does the Ghoul get credit for sucking capabillity out of the RTG pre-launch? no since RTG problem was known pre launch, and the idiots at nasa decided to send it anyway...... the most expensive probe launched forever but known bad RTG will cripple its travels and science return |
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Great Martian Ghoul: chances of feasting on Curiousity?
On Thu, 10 Nov 2011 18:24:42 -0800 (PST), Matt Wiser
wrote: Anyone here care to hazard a guess as to whether or not The Great Martian Ghoul will feast on Curiousity? JPL's had a good record at Mars, so I'm willing to say 75/25 the rover gets to the surface. I'll say 75% chance that cockamamie winch landing system goes haywire and we never hear from Curiosity again. Brian |
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Great Martian Ghoul: chances of feasting on Curiousity?
Matt Wiser wrote:
Anyone here care to hazard a guess as to whether or not The Great Martian Ghoul will feast on Curiousity? JPL's had a good record at Mars, so I'm willing to say 75/25 the rover gets to the surface. JPL has had it's share of mistakes at Mars: Mars Polar Lander for one, and the orbiter (whose name escapes me at the moment) that was mis-programmed and cooked it's batteries. Then there was the whole mess up with metric vs english units. When I first saw the trapeeze landing design, I was thinking lithobraking. I'm wondering if they tested the system on earth (obviously using a lighter payload to compensate for the difference in gravity and atmosphere). Glen |
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Great Martian Ghoul: chances of feasting on Curiousity?
In sci.space.history Matt Wiser wrote:
Anyone here care to hazard a guess as to whether or not The Great Martian Ghoul will feast on Curiousity? JPL's had a good record at Mars, so I'm willing to say 75/25 the rover gets to the surface. I thought it was the Great Galactic Ghoul?-) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explora...ars#Mars_Curse Being the Great Galactic Ghoul would certainly have given it free reign to reach-out beyond Mars' orbit to gobble-up Grunt in LEO. We can only hope that in thinking it was about to get a great big helping of caviar and borscht from consuming Grunt it gets indigestion from the fuel it ate instead and won't be interested in Curiosity. That or it considers the fuel fine Russian vokda and will be sleeping it off during Curiosity's mission. Of course, if it eschewed the Russian fare and went straight to the Chinese probe it will no doubt already be hungry and wondering how Curiosity might taste. rick jones -- I don't interest myself in "why". I think more often in terms of "when", sometimes "where"; always "how much." - Joubert these opinions are mine, all mine; HP might not want them anyway... feel free to post, OR email to rick.jones2 in hp.com but NOT BOTH... |
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Great Martian Ghoul: chances of feasting on Curiousity?
Matt Wiser wrote:
Anyone here care to hazard a guess as to whether or not The Great Martian Ghoul will feast on Curiousity? JPL's had a good record at Mars, so I'm willing to say 75/25 the rover gets to the surface. I still don't get why they gave it the same name as the current MER already on Mars. Reminds me of that Bob Newhart series on TV (the 2nd one): "Hi, my name is Larry and this is my brother Daryll and that one is my other brother Daryll." Dave |
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Great Martian Ghoul: chances of feasting on Curiousity?
On 11/14/2011 07:15 AM, David Spain wrote:
Matt Wiser wrote: Anyone here care to hazard a guess as to whether or not The Great Martian Ghoul will feast on Curiousity? JPL's had a good record at Mars, so I'm willing to say 75/25 the rover gets to the surface. I still don't get why they gave it the same name as the current MER already on Mars. Reminds me of that Bob Newhart series on TV (the 2nd one): "Hi, my name is Larry and this is my brother Daryll and that one is my other brother Daryll." Huh? The MERs are named Spirit and Opportunity. |
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Great Martian Ghoul: chances of feasting on Curiousity?
Jorge R. Frank wrote:
On 11/14/2011 07:15 AM, David Spain wrote: Matt Wiser wrote: Anyone here care to hazard a guess as to whether or not The Great Martian Ghoul will feast on Curiousity? JPL's had a good record at Mars, so I'm willing to say 75/25 the rover gets to the surface. I still don't get why they gave it the same name as the current MER already on Mars. Reminds me of that Bob Newhart series on TV (the 2nd one): "Hi, my name is Larry and this is my brother Daryll and that one is my other brother Daryll." Huh? The MERs are named Spirit and Opportunity. Oops! Yup. Brain gears stripped. Recalled this later this AM. You caught me before I could correct it. Oh well. I have to learn not to post until I finish my morning coffee.... Dave |
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Great Martian Ghoul: chances of feasting on Curiousity?
On Nov 14, 10:22*am, David Spain wrote:
Jorge R. Frank wrote: Huh? The MERs are named Spirit and Opportunity. Oops! Yup. Brain gears stripped. Recalled this later this AM. You caught me before I could correct it. Oh well. I have to learn not to post until I finish my morning coffee.... But then what would you do while drinking your morning coffee? Stare at the walls? -- "There's darkness inside everyone's head-- | Bill Higgins well, except during trepanning!" | Fermilab --Jo Walton | | http://beamjockey.livejournal..com |
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