So I was looking at the status logs for the Spirit lander, and this part amused me:
0436 GMT (11:36 p.m. EST)
SPIRIT IS BOUNCING ON MARS!
Ah, science. :)
*Boing!* *Boing!* *Boing!*
Update: Here's the full animated video of the mission. It's even there in DVD-quality! The only catch is that the site itself is pretty dead, and you have to use BitTorrent to get it, really.. (BitTorrent is a system that automatically serves up your partially downloaded files to other people as you download them.) But that worked great for me once I set up port forwarding on my NAT. :P (And be sure to grab the app from some place other than that site.)
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As with so many other things, Bill Watterson (through Calvin and Hobbes) said it best: "Scientific progress goes 'boink'".
Posted by Juliana | January 7, 2004
Posted on January 7, 2004