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NASA loses contact with Spirit
- aw3c2 17y agoGoodbye, dear Mars Rovers: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXPoIDuFqao http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXPoIDuFqao
- btipling 17y agoOne day we're going to go back and rescue it and put it in the Smithsonian.
- garply 17y agoI find this far more interesting than the Topeka Google thing and yet this only has 14 points to Google's 56 in the same amount of time.
- pohl 17y agoThe article appears to have vanished. I get redirected to the front page. MSNBC links always seem to do this to me.
- tialys 17y agoIt seems that MSNBC has some sort of redirect in place for sites that refer a lot of people. I clicked on the link on their main page and got the exact link posted here, but was able to read it.
- shaddi 17y agoNot entirely bad. Yesterday they tweeted the following: @marsrovers: Spirit, as expected from recent power-supply forecasts, has probably entered low-power hibernation mode: http://bit.ly/9xl4Px http://bit.ly/9xl4Px The link: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/mer/news/mer20100331.html http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/mer/news/mer20100331.html
- JoelMcCracken 17y agoI read this as "NASA loses contract with Sprint"
- SapphireSun 17y agoIt's not an April 1st joke is it? This is really sad :-(
- aero142 17y agoI think the rover itself is making an April fools joke. I fully expect it to reconnect tomorrow and say "Gotcha".
- rauljara 17y agoRationally, I should be very happy that Spirit made it as long as it did, and say, what a fine piece of engineering. But ever since http://xkcd.com/695/ http://xkcd.com/695/ every time I think of Spirit, I get very sad.
- mattyfo 17y agoTotally amazing, something designed to work for three-months is (possibly) still working after six years. Now if only my iPod was just as reliable.
- CWuestefeld 17y agoI know this kind of engineering costs serious money, but I find it remarkable the amount of self-monitoring it can do, how much it can be reconfigured through a lousy and intermittent signal, and how deep is its ability to low-level reboot from errors. If only all of my systems could do that...
- bradgessler 17y agoSpirit isn't dead yet, it just went into hibernation mode. Its possible that it might wake up and keep on truckin'
- stan_rogers 17y agoThat is the most poignant cartoon I've ever read (and that includes Maus), and ought to be a Pulitzer winner if there is any justice in this ol' world.
- adrianwaj 17y agoThe friggin' Jawas have made it to Mars and picked it up. http://bit.ly/cERGcp http://bit.ly/cERGcp
- joblessjunkie 17y agoThe HN headline makes this sound like a permanent failure. Reading the article reveals a much less dire situation (a power-saving hibernation has begun).