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Old November 11th 11, 03:24 AM posted to sci.space.history,sci.space.policy
Matt Wiser
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Default 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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Old November 11th 11, 02:46 PM posted to sci.space.history,sci.space.policy
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Default Great Martian Ghoul: chances of feasting on Curiousity?


"Matt Wiser" wrote in message
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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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Old November 11th 11, 03:54 PM posted to sci.space.history,sci.space.policy
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On Nov 11, 8:46*am, "Val Kraut" wrote:
"Matt Wiser" wrote in message

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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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Old November 11th 11, 04:51 PM posted to sci.space.history,sci.space.policy
Brian Thorn[_2_]
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Default 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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Old November 11th 11, 06:39 PM posted to sci.space.history,sci.space.policy
Glen Overby[_1_]
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Default 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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Old November 11th 11, 07:45 PM posted to sci.space.history,sci.space.policy
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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
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Old November 14th 11, 02:15 PM posted to sci.space.history,sci.space.policy
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Default 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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Old November 14th 11, 03:36 PM posted to sci.space.history,sci.space.policy
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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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Old November 14th 11, 05:22 PM posted to sci.space.history,sci.space.policy
David Spain
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Default 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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Old November 15th 11, 08:46 PM posted to sci.space.history,sci.space.policy
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Default 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?

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