UH oh..

[docwebster]

(AP) - NASA's Spirit rover has stopped transmitting data from Mars in an ominous turn that baffled engineers and sent them scrambling desperately Thursday to figure out what brought the mission to a potentially calamitous halt. NASA received its last significant data from the unmanned Spirit early Wednesday, its 19th day on the surface of Mars. Since then, the six-wheeled vehicle has sent either random, meaningless radio noise or simple beeps acknowledging it has received commands from Earth.

"'The chances of anything coming from Mars, are a million to one', he said. 'The chances of anything coming from Mars, are a million to one', but still they come." - Jeff Wayne's rock opera of "War Of The Worlds", 1978

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[yobadself.livejournal.com]

You're so awesome. I read your stuff and never comment. I'm a ho.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Someday I must re-acquire Jeff Wayne's magnum opus.

Selling my turntable and vinyl was probably a Bad Idea, especially considering that after shipping costs and never getting paid the final installment, I basically broke even on the deal. In other words, I effectively gave them away.

Sigh.

[stypica.livejournal.com]

it amazes me how many people actually know about war of the worlds... currently my only copy is on 8track (and no 8track player :/ ) - but it has the album-sized liner notes:) oooolaaaa

[siliconshaman.livejournal.com]

I heard they thought it was software problem, it's OS crashed...

Apparently it's a custom version of Windows.

[drake57.livejournal.com]

I blame Marvin.