Re: NASA should send many SMALL Mars rovers to survey

On Wed, 7 Dec 2005 17:08:16 GMT, henry@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (Henry Spencer)
wrote:

>In article <s29dp1pqbok5kl5v24e8rdvpgaauf6imfn@xxxxxxx>,
>OM <om@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>...still going to cling to my vision of Sojourner having dug a dry moat
>>around Pathfinder when it went into "circle the wagons" mode after
>>Pathfinder died, and did so until it got below the surface level
>>enough to block off enough sunlight to keep it from powering up :-)
>
>Alas for the moat, the Sojourner operations crew expected that it probably
>wouldn't even make one lap around Pathfinder before encountering a rock
>big enough to make it stop and await further instructions.

....Dammit, Henry, you are *not* going to spoil my dream. The rock will
turn out to be sentient, and simply moved out of the way :-P

OM
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