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#290682 - 22/11/2006 18:48 Isn't this how 2001 started
Redrum old hand Registered: 17/01/2003 Posts: 998	http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15832979/ I'm getting worried
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#290683 - 22/11/2006 18:57 Re: Isn't this how 2001 started [Re: Redrum]
music addict Registered: 25/06/2002 Posts: 456	Quote: I'm getting worried I'm a bit confused here. How is it that a spaceprobe which exceeded its projected lifespan by almost 400% is in any way a cause for concern?
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#290684 - 22/11/2006 19:16 Re: Isn't this how 2001 started [Re: music]
Redrum old hand Registered: 17/01/2003 Posts: 998	Just breaking is one thing but they can't find it. Once in orbit it should stay there unless its obit decays or it gets abducted by aliens. We are doing a lot poking around up there. It’s probably inside of a black rectangle that’s full of stars.
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#290685 - 22/11/2006 19:22 Re: Isn't this how 2001 started [Re: Redrum]
Robotic pooh-bah Registered: 06/04/2005 Posts: 2026 Loc: Seattle transplant	I thought 2001 started (well, the modern end of the movie) with the TMA discovery on the moon. The trip to Jupiter was organized in response to the target of the TMA/obelisk signal. Was there a missing probe at some point? I can't remember. /SF nerd-mode off _________________________ 10101311 (20GB- backup empeg) 10101466 (2x60GB, Eutronix/GreenLights Blue) (Stolen!)
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#290686 - 22/11/2006 19:24 Re: Isn't this how 2001 started [Re: Robotic]
Redrum old hand Registered: 17/01/2003 Posts: 998	I can't remember either. Maybe 2010 started that way
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#290687 - 22/11/2006 20:11 Re: Isn't this how 2001 started [Re: Redrum]
music addict Registered: 25/06/2002 Posts: 456	Quote: It’s probably inside of a black rectangle that’s full of stars. OK, I understand now. ...One by Four by Nine. You are talking about the movie 2001, not the year 2001. I thought you were referring to the spacecraft which (a few years ago) we inadvertently used as a ballistic missile against the previously peaceful Martians when we got furlongs and hogsheads confused with centimeters and hectoliters or something like that. For some strange reason, this discussion has now brought KSR's "Stonehenge" book back into my mind, although I read it so many eons ago that I recall the plot not at all.
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#290688 - 22/11/2006 20:33 Re: Isn't this how 2001 started [Re: music]
Redrum old hand Registered: 17/01/2003 Posts: 998	Quote: For some strange reason, this discussion has now brought KSR's "Stonehenge" book back into my mind, although I read it so many eons ago that I recall the plot not at all. And that reminds me of some book I read years where all the Martians went on vacation (or something) and left mars. We, of course, moved to mars and into their houses. However they had a cool way of locking up. All their "stuff" was put into some kind of a dimensional shift that prevented anything from being moved/ripped off. We even tried a nuclear bomb on one house and it did nothing. Anyways they came back and I forget the rest. I just wish I could lock my stuff with a dimensional shift device.
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#290689 - 23/11/2006 00:11 Re: Isn't this how 2001 started [Re: Redrum]
gbeer carpal tunnel Registered: 17/12/2000 Posts: 2665 Loc: Manteca, California	Wasn't that Ray Bradbury's - The Martian Chronicles. Me go look now. Edit: Done looking. Well maybe not but it has similarity's. Edited by gbeer (23/11/2006 00:17) _________________________ Glenn
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#290690 - 23/11/2006 06:22 Re: Isn't this how 2001 started [Re: Redrum]
Roger carpal tunnel Registered: 18/01/2000 Posts: 5682 Loc: London, UK	Quote: Just breaking is one thing but they can't find it. Once in orbit it should stay there ... Orbit's a big place to be looking for something that's probably no bigger than a fridge. Particularly when it's around a completely different planet. One where we don't have radar stations looking up into the sky. Basically, the only way we knew where it was before was because it was telling us. Now the radio's broken, it could carry on going round for thousands of years, and we'll probably never find it. Until we move to Mars and put up those radar stations. _________________________ -- roger
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#290691 - 23/11/2006 15:07 Re: Isn't this how 2001 started [Re: Roger]
gbeer carpal tunnel Registered: 17/12/2000 Posts: 2665 Loc: Manteca, California	"Find it" In this case most likely means the transmitter can't be seen by the local recievers. _________________________ Glenn
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