[ale] [OT] Mars Lander!

[Michael H. Warfield]

On Mon, 2012-08-06 at 10:32 -0400, Jim Kinney wrote:
> Once again, America has enforced it's view of all things our way by
> depositing an SUV on Mars as a harbinger of the impending urban sprawl
> on Earth.

Yup...  Cheated Mars out of its latest crater and managed to put six
wheels on the ground in one piece.  Totally awesome.  You can just
envision this thing coming down, rockets blasting and, just as it
hovers, lowering the rover before rocketing off to crash.  Wild...

> I was up late at GaTech for the landing party and got so see this live
> (well, with a 7 minute delay from Mars and an apparent 2 minute delay
> from NASA).

> 7 minutes of terror was an apt name for the decent.
> 
> Need to find out how much Linux there was involved in this thing.
> 
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> James P. Kinney III
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