Obviously, the rovers were not made by the big 3 automakers.

Waaaahhhlll eeeeee

I just hope Obama sees the worth in this great program after all.

It was the one small worry I had about voting for him. I mean, if we're going to waste tax dollars, let's at least use it on something educational and totally awesome.

I thought there was a story not long ago about them having finally bitten the dust. Or maybe it was just them losing contact for a while, I don't remember.

So we sent the rovers to Mars to play Tetris?

Cinletharwi

The sun was in the way for a while last month so they were out of touch.

EEeeevv AAaahhh

nacker: Waaaahhhlll eeeeee

+1

nacker: Waaaahhhlll eeeeee

Damn you! I came in here to say that!

nacker: Waaaahhhlll eeeeee

MO

PacersJAM3s: I just hope Obama sees the worth in this great program after all.

It was the one small worry I had about voting for him. I mean, if we're going to waste tax dollars, let's at least use it on something educational and totally awesome.

At least the talk of Obama having the Pentagon oversee NASA operations makes good sense. Hopefully NASA can use some military technology.

Wasted on me as I couldn't sit through that damned movie.

/'it's all a bunch of tree-hugging hippie crap!'

ttc2301: Wasted on me as I couldn't sit through that damned movie.

/'it's all a bunch of tree-hugging hippie crap!'

But it was extremely cute tree-hugging hippie crap (:

It's just following its directive.

Yep that's the government for you alright! Leave it to them to make a 90 day project take 5 years.

When they were sent to Mars the engineers & scientists thought they would last about 90 days... happy 5th birthdays rovers!

/Now if only the polar lander would 'wake up' when winter is over, that would be awesome!

I never get tired of watching this (ker-pops)

ttc2301: Wasted on me as I couldn't sit through that damned movie.

/'it's all a bunch of tree-hugging hippie crap!'

From The American Conservative:

The real tragedy of these callous conservative critics (say that three times fast) is that they are missing the real lessons of the movie, ones I found immediately attractive to a traditional conservative. In the film, it becomes clear that mass consumerism is not just the product of big business, but of big business wedded with big government. In fact, the two are indistinguishable in WALL-E's future. The government unilaterally provided it's citizens with everything they needed, and this lack of variety led to Earth's downfall.

Another lesson missed is portrayed perfectly in Coffin's claim that WALL-E points out the "evils of mankind." The only evils of mankind portrayed are those that come about from losing touch with our own humanity. Staples of small-town conservative life such as the small farm, the "atomic family," and old-fashioned and wholesome entertainment like "Hello, Dolly" are looked upon by the suddenly awakened humans as beautiful and desirable. By steering conservative families away from WALL-E, these commentators are doing their readers a great disservice.

Damn dirty California hippies.

Great job guys. Let's earmark another 100 billion for this super important work.

Blue Summer Union: Great job guys. Let's earmark another 100 billion for this super important work.

Try $820 million. Robotic exploration is the most cost-effective science NASA does.

Guma

That is the coolest thing I've seen all year...if not in a year! Thanks for that!

I think I actually aged one year by sitting through that movie. The most boring movie, I think I actually heard snoring in the movie cinema.

Sir Vanderhoot: nacker: Waaaahhhlll eeeeee

MO

Mo?

Guma: I never get tired of watching this (ker-pops)

Holy fark that is a cool video.

AWESOME!

=D

yagottabefarkinkiddinme: I think I actually aged one year by sitting through that movie. The most boring movie, I think I actually heard snoring in the movie cinema.

So what you're saying is...you have the attention span of a gnat? Because my three year old and I sat through it just fine. Granted, it was here at home, but she only got up once, to go to the bathroom.

Lumpmoose: ttc2301: Wasted on me as I couldn't sit through that damned movie.

/'it's all a bunch of tree-hugging hippie crap!'

From The American Conservative:

The real tragedy of these callous conservative critics (say that three times fast) is that they are missing the real lessons of the movie, ones I found immediately attractive to a traditional conservative. In the film, it becomes clear that mass consumerism is not just the product of big business, but of big business wedded with big government. In fact, the two are indistinguishable in WALL-E's future. The government unilaterally provided it's citizens with everything they needed, and this lack of variety led to Earth's downfall.

Another lesson missed is portrayed perfectly in Coffin's claim that WALL-E points out the "evils of mankind." The only evils of mankind portrayed are those that come about from losing touch with our own humanity. Staples of small-town conservative life such as the small farm, the "atomic family," and old-fashioned and wholesome entertainment like "Hello, Dolly" are looked upon by the suddenly awakened humans as beautiful and desirable. By steering conservative families away from WALL-E, these commentators are doing their readers a great disservice.

Damn dirty California hippies.

Really, the problem is that people were looking for such messages at all. The hippies want to see how consumerism destroyed the earth, the conservatives want to hears about how it is rediscovering the wholesome stuff regained it.

Pixar just said that all that stuff was nothing more than a vehicle to explain the two robots' existence. The movie isn't a parable about environmentalism or anything else. It's an animated love story that happens to be about robots, and if you take it for that, I found it to be one of the better Pixar films.

5 years of actual exploration and science for less than a shuttle launch?

No wonder NASA hates that rover program so much, it's got a bang:buck that makes everything else look pathetic.

Seriously, they're on the verge of finding life on another planet, for less than it costs to answer such pressing questions like "how do kittens like space flight?"

/kill the shuttle
//keep the rovers

yagottabefarkinkiddinme: I think I actually aged one year by sitting through that movie. The most boring movie, I think I actually heard snoring in the movie cinema.

My high school had an annual honors banquet for high achieving students. It was a rural high school with bad teachers, so a lot of morons (including myself) managed honors. The speaker for my Junior year was a former student who was then in his mid-60s. After graduating, he got math and engineering degrees and went on to work for the jet propulsion laboratory doing major stuff. Everyone but me thought he was sooooooo boring and the lamest speaker the event ever had. The next year they got a girl who had graduated 3 years earlier who was studying elementary ed at a crappy local college who told us how totally awesome college life was. *sigh*

yagottabefarkinkiddinme

Fail troll is fail

Came here for pictures of Decepticons stacking energon cubes, and was mildly disappointed.

Whatever. It's still litter. (new window)

Cinletharwi: I thought there was a story not long ago about them having finally bitten the dust. Or maybe it was just them losing contact for a while, I don't remember.



Your thinking of the Mars Phoenix "lander" not the rover.

It powered down operations back at the end of november with very little likelihood that they'll be able to restart it again in the "warm" season.


It landed 2008.... and finished in 2008.


The Rovers landed for what was originally a 90 mission. They have been running pretty near continuously (though they have lost much of their original design function) for nearly 5 years.

@BlankIdea

I came here to say word for word what you just said.

/Bonus would be a pic of a empty energon cube coming out of Soundwave's chest.

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WAHL-EEEEEE!!!
Wahhhhl-EEEEE E E!

The script writers really got to take the day off on this one.

Oh wait, one more line...
"Directive..?"

ZAZ : The sun was in the way for a while last month so they were out of touch.



You're out of touch
I'm out of time
But I'm out of my head when you're not around

Reaching out for something to hold
Looking for a love where the climate is cold
Manic moves and drowsy dreams
Or living in the middle between the two extremes
Smoking guns hot to the touch
Would cool down if we didn't use them so much
We're soul alone
And soul really matters to me
Too much

ttc2301: Wasted on me as I couldn't sit through that damned movie.

/'it's all a bunch of tree-hugging hippie crap!'

No one likes you.

ttc2301: Wasted on me as I couldn't sit through that damned movie.

/'it's all a bunch of tree-hugging hippie crap!'

Your loss.

To me there was a lot of it that was obviously ridiculously impossible (including the level of garbage) that it really didn't seem to have a politcal agenda as ttc seems to believe. It was just cute little kids movie.

Once their missions are over, NASA will flip the switch and cause all the rovers to battle one another in a pay-per-view event: Rumble on the Red Planet!

Aw, man. I was hoping subby was going for the Martian Odyssey (new window) reference.

When Georgie came out with his pie-in-the-sky Mars program in 2003 or so, I told a friend that I would vote Republican for life if Bush would just give me a dedicated berth on the first manned mission. Alas, that didn't work. The offer still stands, Obama, but we could negotiate what I'd have to do for you, since I don't think you want me voting Republican.

buzzvert: Obviously, the rovers were not made by the big 3 automakers.

NASA has had it's share of failures and mistakes. Remember the imperial vs. metric screwup with the Mars Climate Orbiter?

Link (new window)

Oznog: nacker: Waaaahhhlll eeeeee

WAHL-EEEEEE!!!
Wahhhhl-EEEEE E E!

The script writers really got to take the day off on this one.

Oh wait, one more line...
"Directive..?"

Script writers still obviously had to write a script. They just didn't have to include much actual dialog. However, the Captain and the Autopilot had quite a bit.

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+1 again.

Guma: I never get tired of watching this (ker-pops)

Thanks!!

Still waiting to make contact with...

Lumpmoose: Blue Summer Union: Great job guys. Let's earmark another 100 billion for this super important work.

Try $820 million. Robotic exploration is the most cost-effective science NASA does.

Not bad for two little robots that were slated to last only 90 days.

Oznog: nacker: Waaaahhhlll eeeeee

WAHL-EEEEEE!!!
Wahhhhl-EEEEE E E!

The script writers really got to take the day off on this one.

Oh wait, one more line...
"Directive..?"

Smotto: Script writers still obviously had to write a script. They just didn't have to include much actual dialog. However, the Captain and the Autopilot had quite a bit.

The entire script transcribed:
Wall-e! (competes with "INUYASHA!!" for the most times yelled)
Directive?
Ta-da!
Classified!
Name?
EV-A
Plant!
NO!

I thought the Mars rover project was said to have been lost in a crash landing, but actually had transmitted 18 seconds...?


/ that's gonna rust

I am so gonna sue their asses!

/Wouldn't You Like To Be A Pepper Too?