Stop the wake up songs for pete's sake

It seems the item of greatest importance on JPL's list everyday is
informing the public of what catchy tune the 'song coordinator' has
picked out for the rover wakeup that day. Come on, not every single
event has to be serenaded by a song title. This became silly somewhere
around the third week, and the worst example was yesterday when
somebody thought it would be cool to play 'Dig Down Deep' by Hot Soup
for the rover digging a trench. For anyone who's never heard it, the
song has nothing to do with digging beyond the title.

Stop the wake up songs!

Tom Merkle

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This became silly somewhere
around the third week, and the worst example was yesterday when
somebody thought it would be cool to play 'Dig Down Deep' by Hot Soup
for the rover digging a trench. For anyone who's never heard it, the
song has nothing to do with digging beyond the title.

Stop the wake up songs!

Ummm....dude...they can't help it because they're such total geeks. If
they were capable of realizing how uncool they looked to the rest of the
world then they wouldn't be geeks, now would they?



Tom Merkle


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Why don't they play the Randells' "The Martian Hop"?

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This became silly somewhere
around the third week, and the worst example was yesterday when
somebody thought it would be cool to play 'Dig Down Deep' by Hot Soup
for the rover digging a trench. For anyone who's never heard it, the
song has nothing to do with digging beyond the title.

Stop the wake up songs!

Ummm....dude...they can't help it because they're such total geeks. If
they were capable of realizing how uncool they looked to the rest of the
world then they wouldn't be geeks, now would they?

No, that's nerds.

Geeks know they look uncool to a lot of people and they don't care.


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In article ,
Tom Merkle wrote:
It seems the item of greatest importance on JPL's list everyday is
informing the public of what catchy tune the 'song coordinator' has
picked out for the rover wakeup that day.

Don't confuse JPL's public-relations people -- who do sometimes seem to
have the IQ of inbred puppies -- with the people doing the work.

Many of the technical people are probably as sick of this as you are...
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In article ,
Tom Merkle wrote:
It seems the item of greatest importance on JPL's list everyday is
informing the public of what catchy tune the 'song coordinator' has
picked out for the rover wakeup that day.

Don't confuse JPL's public-relations people -- who do sometimes seem to
have the IQ of inbred puppies -- with the people doing the work.

Whoever hired the PR genius that decided NASA's mission is to
translate incredible engineering marvels into moron trivia is
confused.

Some goofball without a technical degree is happy to just be working
at NASA, but in the long run they're making the agency look
politically retarded. As in ripe for more congressional meddling.


Many of the technical people are probably as sick of this as you are...

doubtless. No offense intended towards the hard working engineers and
scientists responsible for this, the most important NASA success since
1972. I just want the PR people to shut up and let us enjoy it for
what it's really worth.

Tom Merkle

Tom Merkle ) wrote:
[...]

: doubtless. No offense intended towards the hard working engineers and
: scientists responsible for this, the most important NASA success since
: 1972. I just want the PR people to shut up and let us enjoy it for
: what it's really worth.

One can argue that Viking in 76 was as big, or Voyager during the whole
decade of the 80s, or the 81 launch and landing of the shuttle. Did you
pick the 72 year out of your, err, hat?

HST?

Eric

: Tom Merkle

(Eric Chomko) wrote in message ...
Tom Merkle ) wrote:
[...]

: doubtless. No offense intended towards the hard working engineers and
: scientists responsible for this, the most important NASA success since
: 1972. I just want the PR people to shut up and let us enjoy it for
: what it's really worth.

One can argue that Viking in 76 was as big, or Voyager during the whole
decade of the 80s, or the 81 launch and landing of the shuttle. Did you
pick the 72 year out of your, err, hat?

HST?

Eric

No. 1972 was, obviously, the last time we had pictures of men working
on a planetary body other than Earth. This is the closest we have come
to envisioning man in a remote place since then. Obviously, it'd be
cooler if it was Joe & Jane Astronaut on the Meridiani plane instead
of a responsive robot...but I'll take robots for now.

Tom Merkle

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m...
It seems the item of greatest importance on JPL's list everyday is
informing the public of what catchy tune the 'song coordinator' has
picked out for the rover wakeup that day. Come on, not every single
event has to be serenaded by a song title. This became silly somewhere
around the third week, and the worst example was yesterday when
somebody thought it would be cool to play 'Dig Down Deep' by Hot Soup
for the rover digging a trench. For anyone who's never heard it, the
song has nothing to do with digging beyond the title.

Stop the wake up songs!

I totally agree. I totally belittles the entire Mars rover program, and
making the engineers look like a couple or little kiddies. Come on guys,
stop the stupid wake up songs. It's embarrasing.

No kidding. It's embarrassing enough that they think waking up the
astronauts with a hand-picked song is a news item. Now they're doing it
to an inanimate object, and bragging about it. Doesn't really give an
appearance of being in touch with reality (or at least, any normal
person's reality).

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