Re: NASA Claims No Life On Mars and Embargos Mars Rover Data.

From: Thomas Lee Elifritz (cosmic_at_lifeform.org)
Date: 02/19/05 

Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2005 14:58:29 GMT

February 19, 2005

dar7yl wrote:

> "Thomas Lee Elifritz" <cosmic@lifeform.org> wrote in message
> news:4216B0C5.B4ED4C26@lifeform.org...
> > The exploratium site is down :
> > http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/spirit/
>
> Could it be that they are having server problems
> like the error message says?

I'm not getting an error message. Just a timeout.

> They are probably
> aware of it by now, but you could inform them with
> a polite notice instead of jumping up and down
> like a spoiled child.

Probably they are overwhelmed by billions of viewers wanting
to see bizarre alien landscapes in real time, rather than put
up with the hard to use scripted and overdue imagery on the
official NASA Mars Rover website.

> > http://anserver1.eprsl.wustl.edu/
> >
> > "Third data releases for Spirit and Opportunity
> > have been postponed until the end of February.
> > (including raw and derived data from Sols 91-180)"
> >
> > "Fourth data releases for Spirit and Opportunity
> > (including raw and derived data from Sols 181-270)
> > April 22, 2005"
> >
>
> Looks like they may be falling behind in their work.

Actually, no we already demonstrated that the data
is already there, ready to go, captured and displayed
in a highly automated manner, for instance :

http://anserver1.eprsl.wustl.edu/anteam/merA/charts/A/1601/2A160117382EDRA2HPN1419N0M10.png

So clearly your claim is just plain wrong.

> Hasn't it occurred to you that these people
> are very busy with the backlog of images
> and spectroscopy, and don't have time to
> continuously update the web, let alone respond
> to your immature ravings?

I just explained to you, the exploratorium and
workbench are highly automated. Most of the
hard work is done by the rover drivers, and
one of the reasons they are not investigating
apparent fossils is that they don't want to
risk banging the rover, and they have already
publicly admitted they have no intention of
discovering life with this mission, as that will
put all future NASA Mars missions at risk.

> You should be happy that they are releasing
> new information on a practically daily basis.

They aren't, that's what I just explained to you.

> Yes, I have noticed a dwindling of activity,
> which I attribute, not to conspiracy, but to
> simple burn-out after over a year of
> (most excellent IMHO) scientific study.

Only because you are a confirmed idiot.
I've already demonstrated that you are
not actually looking at the data anyways.

Thomas Lee Elifritz
http://elifritz.members.atlantic.net

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