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Topic: Intelligent life on Mars
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DownTheRoad
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posted 08 November 2004 09:05 AM
Read about it here. quote: LOS ANGELES (AP) _ As NASA's Mars rovers keep rolling past all expectations of their useful lives, scientists have a happy mystery: For some reason one of the vehicles has actually gained power recently. Opportunity recently experienced an unexplained rejuvenation from what can so far be described only as two or three significant "cleaning events,'' said Jim Erickson, the rover project manager at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena. "Now we're assuming they're cleaning, but all we can really say is that overnight the solar panels produced between 2 and 5 percent additional power immediately,'' he said. "We're surmising that for some reason dust is being removed from the solar panel and that's increasing the efficiency of the sunlight being converted to electricity.'' The rover team has been bandying about theories, but hasn't figured out the cause. "One favorite is that a dust devil happened to pick the vehicle to go through and go over the surface of it and clean it off a little bit,'' Erickson said.
Dust devils? Bah. I say little green men and a government coverup.
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radiorahim
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posted 08 November 2004 09:12 PM
quote: LOS ANGELES (AP) _ As NASA's Mars rovers keep rolling past all expectations of their useful lives, scientists have a happy mystery: For some reason one of the vehicles has actually gained power recently.
Something like this happened to the ham radio satellite "Oscar 7". It was originally launched in 1974, was operational till 1981 and then died. All of a sudden in 2002 the thing came back to life and became operational again. Apparently a short circuit in the battery system "unshorted" and the satellite was able to use its solar panels. Oscar 7
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fuslim
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posted 09 November 2004 05:03 AM
quote: Gotta love how science overlooks more realistic possibilites and move right to a "accidental dust devil" theory.
Let's see, I wonder what other possibilities there may be.... Intelligent life on Mars, but not too intelligent. They think God has landed, and they worship him/her and feel bad 'cause he's dusty. Intelligent life from somewhere other than Mars who just happened to be there, and dusted the thing off because they're naturally neat and tidy. A quantum vortex sucked the dust up into a mini black hole. The machine itself has evolved to the point where it's worried about personal hygiene. Deepak Chopra willed the dust away. There never was any dust, the machine was just tired. Jimmy Hoffa... The dust is the intelligent life, and got bored hanging around.
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