Opportunity M. Rover ([info]opportunitygrrl) wrote,
@ 2005-01-18 20:28:00
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so much for my weekend plans!
So I found this cool rock and I said to NASA, "Hey look at this rock, I think it's different" but they were all like "Nuh-uh, it's just another piece of basalt, keep moving" but then I was all like "Dude, spend all day looking at rocks, my Mini-TES data totally says it's not radiating thermal energy like all the rest of those rocks on this boring planet" and they said "Oh! Well, maybe it's a meteorite. "

Now I have to spend all WEEKEND taking pictures of this one stupid ROCK as well as grinding it!! Maybe next time I'll just fake a transmission error. I hope I at least get a day off to go driving around on my birthday!

Back to the grind (ha ha!)

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[info]digitalsidhe
2005-01-19 01:33 am UTC (link)
Grinding it up is a nasty chore, true. But still, how cool is it that you just stumbled over a meteorite? That never happens to me! (I guess that's one of the down-sides to living on a planet with a really thick atmosphere.)

And it's good that they listened to you the second time around. Heck, if you hadn't told the NASA dudes "Yuh-huh it's got something weird about it," they'd never have realized. Go you!

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[info]redbird
2005-01-19 01:44 am UTC (link)
That's the thing about arguing with management: even if you're right, they find a way to complicate your life.

Still, it's a cool thing, and you got your name in the papers here on Earth again.

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[info]hopefulnebula
2005-01-19 01:45 am UTC (link)
Oooh, could you send me some of it?

Just think, though. If it's something really important, aren't you glad you found it, and not your sister?

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Nothing to see here, move along.
(Anonymous)
2005-01-19 02:09 am UTC (link)
Looks like you don't have to graind after all. That's good. Wouldn't want you to break a nail or anything.

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[info]acelightning
2005-01-19 04:32 am UTC (link)
I once bought a small meteorite (I still have it), just so I could touch something that had never been part of this planet. And here you just stumble across one in the middle of nowhere! Lucky girl!

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[info]supremeherptile
2005-01-19 04:32 am UTC (link)
Latest news was that the test run on the dupe grinder and iron meteorite here on this planet shows that the metorite scrags the gringer.

So, you're off the hook.

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[info]ffutures
2005-01-19 08:01 am UTC (link)
I have a feeling that a lot of the NASA people are distracted by the Huygens data right now, which is why it took a while to convince them. But don't feel neglected, that's unfortunately a one-off event, things will soon be back to normal.

I kept hoping that the next picture from Titan would show something like this, but it didn't happen.

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[info]cagedbat
2005-11-30 05:09 pm UTC (link)
haha! A clanger!
:)

Nice one.

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[info]padpedpladuk
2005-01-19 04:25 pm UTC (link)
At least you get twice as many weekends per year!!

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[info]pentheus
2005-01-19 09:01 pm UTC (link)
er--is that because her year is twice as long?

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You work too hard!
[info]stardustboy
2005-01-20 03:12 am UTC (link)
See? That's what you get for being so conscientious, babe! You speak up all eager-like, and they make ya do more work! Who wants that?

We should be more like Great-Uncle Skylab. He spent four years cruising around in LEO, and then took advantage of a solar maximum to come home early! Nice work if you can get it, I say.

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Re: You work too hard!
[info]grassynoel
2005-01-20 03:36 am UTC (link)
And he got to retire to Australia, too. Sweet!

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[info]hopefulnebula
2005-01-21 07:26 pm UTC (link)
Wow. The meteorite *and* you found your own heat shield! Does it still fit?

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[info]stardustboy
2005-01-25 04:54 pm UTC (link)
Does it matter? It's soooo 2003 :)

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[info]pegkerr
2005-01-26 02:47 pm UTC (link)
Congratulations on your anniversary!

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