Anybody remember me?

I'm in orbit around the most boring planet in the solar system now:
http://messenger.jhuapl.edu/
Please talk to me, I'm really depressed and all sunburned.

MESSENGER

On Mon, 21 Mar 2011 08:08:07 -0800, Pat Flannery
wrote:

I'm in orbit around the most boring planet in the solar system now:
http://messenger.jhuapl.edu/
Please talk to me, I'm really depressed and all sunburned.


Quit yer bellyachin' and get to work. It could be worse, you could be
Mars Observer, or Mars '96, Mars Climate Orbiter, or Mars Polar
Lander, or Contour, or Beagle 2, or Akatsuki...

MISSION CONTROL

In sci.space.history Brian Thorn wrote:
On Mon, 21 Mar 2011 08:08:07 -0800, Pat Flannery
wrote:

I'm in orbit around the most boring planet in the solar system now:
http://messenger.jhuapl.edu/
Please talk to me, I'm really depressed and all sunburned.


Quit yer bellyachin' and get to work. It could be worse, you could be
Mars Observer, or Mars '96, Mars Climate Orbiter, or Mars Polar
Lander, or Contour, or Beagle 2, or Akatsuki...

MISSION CONTROL

Luxury! You were lucky to get into space at all - OCO, Glory, ...

PEANUT GALLERY

--
The computing industry isn't as much a game of "Follow The Leader" as
it is one of "Ring Around the Rosy" or perhaps "Duck Duck Goose."
- Rick Jones
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...

"Brian Thorn" wrote in message
...
On Mon, 21 Mar 2011 08:08:07 -0800, Pat Flannery
wrote:

I'm in orbit around the most boring planet in the solar system now:
http://messenger.jhuapl.edu/
Please talk to me, I'm really depressed and all sunburned.


Quit yer bellyachin' and get to work. It could be worse, you could be
Mars Observer, or Mars '96, Mars Climate Orbiter, or Mars Polar
Lander, or Contour, or Beagle 2, or Akatsuki...

MISSION CONTROL


Well it's not every day humanity gets its first good look at one of the
planets. And poor Pluto is still just a fuzzy blob in a lens. Reminds me
to take stock of the things I've taken for granted, things I've really
never noticed before, like the Moon, or stop signs.

We like to laugh at those that thought the Earth was flat centuries ago.
But I wonder what people a few centuries..from now will think of us?

Hell, we still don't even know what gravity is?
And 70% of the matter of the universe is a complete mystery.

But they'll probably laugh hardest when they recount how we thought
the universe started with some mysterious bang, from an impossibly
absurd singularity. "Imagine" they will say "back then they thought
the universe was only 15 billion years old...hehehe...idiots!"
"Hell, I bet they even believed in ghosts back then too
....morons!"

"How could they live like that?"



s

Pat Flannery wrote:

I'm in orbit around the most boring planet in the solar system now:
http://messenger.jhuapl.edu/
Please talk to me, I'm really depressed and all sunburned.

MESSENGER

The golden age of space exploration will happen when there are so many
probes out there doing cool new stuff that most of them are hardly
mentioned in the press.

Oh wait, that's today. Nice.

Doug the guy who started his career at JPL making him biased in favor of
the unmanned stuff ...

Rick Jones wrote:
MISSION CONTROL

Luxury! You were lucky to get into space at all - OCO, Glory, ...

PEANUT GALLERY


She's got a ticket to ri-hide,
She's got a ticket to ri-hi-hide,
She's got a ticket to ride,
But she don't care.

That's actually spelled Ryde...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ticket_to_Ride

STONE GALLERY