Martian Planetary Defence Forces strike again

[drplokta]

Nasa has lost contact with the Spirit rover. Bugger.

Comments

[sbisson.livejournal.com]

Ack.

Let's hope they find out what's wrong soon...

[animoose.livejournal.com]

Beagle hit it with a hammer!

[drpete.livejournal.com]

How does that song go?

"You're not singing, you're not singing, you're not singing anymore...."

Hopefully they'll now wheel out the mission controller from Beagle II to look all contrite and give 'em the finger.

[animoose.livejournal.com]

BTW, this: http://www.kohala.com/start/papers.others/pathfinder.html is a good read. It recounts a software problem with Mars pathfinder which was fixed because they accidentally left debug code in. The last paragraph of the story is lovely.

[numbat.livejournal.com]

The chances of hearing anything from Mars are a million to one he said...