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King of the Hobos  Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 2,117 Joined: 26-February 02 Member No.: 127  |
Well despite some missed deadlines, Mars seems determined to keep to its part of the Shadowrun timeline. First Beagle goes MIA, and now Spirit seems to be having a bad case of BSoD. Well, can't have anyone finding anything early. :) Was there ever anything else about Mars and the situation there mentioned, or is it still just what's in Missions?
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Jan 24 2004, 03:42 AM
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Prime Runner Group: Members Posts: 3,577 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Gwynedd Valley PA Member No.: 1,221 |
There's a thread about this in Woodchuck's site, but yeah, they've got the rover back on line but it's the first probe in a long time not to screw up. All this helps if you've got a space based line, adding to mystery on Mars with a long history of failed missions there.
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Jan 24 2004, 03:42 AM
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Great Dragon Group: Members Posts: 6,748 Joined: 5-July 02 Member No.: 2,935 |
Just some missions and the secret Ares base in Target: Wastelands.
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Jan 24 2004, 03:56 AM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,428 Joined: 9-June 02 Member No.: 2,860 |
Last I read on-line (as of 10:45 PM EST, 23 January 04), it was not so much as "back on line" as "sending garbled nonsense on request." Beeps and Nonsense Frustrated Engineers |
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Jan 24 2004, 08:09 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 283 Joined: 30-September 03 From: Kenmore, NY, USA Member No.: 5,663 |
AH what part of Target Wastelands does it reference a Secret Mars Ares base. I kinda remember it, it doesn't say anything to definite about it right?
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Jan 24 2004, 08:20 AM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,362 Joined: 3-October 03 From: Poway, San Diego County, CA, USA Member No.: 5,676 |
NEWS FLASH: MARS PROBE CRASHES INTO DEBRIS FROM PREVIOUS PROBE
CYDONIA FACE WANTED FOR QUESTIONING 2/3 of all mars missions fail before they can do anything useful. This rover is one of the best simply for managing to land and roll off the lander. Personaly, I think that the government is just telling the public that their mars missions fail so that they don't have to tell us what the probes find. It works a lot better than saying that the probe found stuff that they can't tell us. |
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Jan 24 2004, 09:54 AM
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Runner Group: Members Posts: 3,066 Joined: 5-February 03 Member No.: 4,017 |
[cospiracy theorist rant]
Obviously, this is a case of outside signal interference. Where? From that European satelite in orbit. Their Beagle broke, so they want to make sure no one else can get any useful data. [/rant] It's hard to do maintenance at that distance, and there are plenty of places in the treck that could damage the more delicate components. There should be more hardware and software redundancy, but it already has some very impressive diagnostic systems, and a full secondary control system brings its own problems. |
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Jan 24 2004, 01:21 PM
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Dragon Group: Members Posts: 4,065 Joined: 16-January 03 From: Fayetteville, NC Member No.: 3,916 |
Isn't that the supreme April Fool's joke?
Intercept the Mars Rover signal and splice it with images of your own? Maybe little green men in Hawaii tourist shirts and cameras waving? :grinbig: -Siege |
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Jan 24 2004, 02:48 PM
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Great Dragon Group: Members Posts: 6,748 Joined: 5-July 02 Member No.: 2,935 |
252: No, just one of those shadowy rumors.
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Jan 24 2004, 03:14 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 731 Joined: 25-March 02 From: Rye, New York Member No.: 2,470 |
You mean in SR or RL? It would be interesting. Some technician looknig at the broadcasts, see..."Holy S***!" then his screen goes blank and his boss explains to him he a) saw nothing b)his security cklearance just went up. c) if he violates A&B he will have a fatal traffic accident within 3 hours. the probe has been heard from but it's crippled, they don't know if it's a program they can reboot or a hardware problem that's fatal. O course the picture of a martian street gang stripping it for parts... I think it's sad to think of the probe, rolling accross the martian landscape, chirping along, and no one will ever hear from it again. |
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Jan 24 2004, 03:37 PM
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Shooting Target Group: Members Posts: 1,759 Joined: 11-December 02 From: France Member No.: 3,723 |
The same happened on Earth to Mark Hamill after the Return of the Jedi, and nobody moaned about it :grinbig: |
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Jan 24 2004, 07:02 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 731 Joined: 25-March 02 From: Rye, New York Member No.: 2,470 |
Actually he does a lot of cartoon voice overs.
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