Curiosity Rover Composites on GigaPan

Glitch_Neo wrote:

MSL Curiosity Rover - Sol(s) 2002 & 2003 Composite [Pds]

(Single images are from 2003)

www.gigapan.com/gigapans/210626


MSL Sol 1931 cropped mosaic ............. pds attempt 2 and i'm done with this set of images in such a large set

www.gigapan.com/gigapans/210627

1931 looks familiar. It this the one that Chris says contains a roadway (the streak across the center) and ruined buildings? I looked at his site and couldn't find the video.

Todd wrote:

It's looking better. I almost have something for 1931, it won't be perfect.

I look forward to it Todd - I just about had enough of the "valves" getting hot and popping in my hand crank abacus... *cough* ... PC.... *cough*

RocketDawg wrote:

Glitch_Neo wrote:

MSL Curiosity Rover - Sol(s) 2002 & 2003 Composite [Pds]

(Single images are from 2003)

www.gigapan.com/gigapans/210626


MSL Sol 1931 cropped mosaic ............. pds attempt 2 and i'm done with this set of images in such a large set

www.gigapan.com/gigapans/210627

1931 looks familiar. It this the one that Chris says contains a roadway (the streak across the center) and ruined buildings? I looked at his site and couldn't find the video.

I think it is, it certainly looks as if it could be a "Road" or "Plaza" I'm particularly curious about this feature... (see Pic)

I'll eat my hat if it's not a building with the entrance visible,,,,,

Glitch, you joke about your abacus ... but way back in times past when I was a co-op student, calculators had not been invented and computers took up an entire large room. We had an IBM360 in the basement of our building that was sort of self service (you had to take your cards down and feed them into the machine), or the real computing power was in the "Comp Lab" ... a gigantic area that housed nothing but computers. At that time, the best was a Univac 1108.

Offices typically had Friden (www.google.com/search?q=friden+calculator&client=safari&rls=en&tbm=isch&source=iu&ictx=1&fir=ivdGG8mk0OjUoM%253A%252CWGP1kMMqTk0hlM%252C_&usg=AFrqEzeod6Ko5GIWsguqRqR8giexk3y2Cw&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjxvfuozOzcAhUnWN8KHVw1Ds0Q9QEwAnoECAAQBA#imgrc=ivdGG8mk0OjUoM:) or Marchant calculators (www.google.com/search?q=marchant+calculator&client=safari&rls=en&tbm=isch&source=iu&ictx=1&fir=JSdNuuDMxGxNPM%253A%252CfEE0Y8p0xJhHzM%252C_&usg=AFrqEzfM93KDZpe615v2bwBCHqWZ5J8PsQ&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiI9MbIzOzcAhVMMd8KHTZDBwEQ9QEwA3oECAAQBA#imgrc=DpIf_xVmgwWGDM:), or perhaps both. It was interesting to watch them rattle and basically jump up and down doing there thing ... but they could multiply to 16 digits, and some coud even extract square roots. They were a massive thing, probably weighed about 50 lbs and were about the size of an old-fashioned CRT computer monitor.

But the Saturn V was designed and built, and we went to the moon, using such devices that now seem quite primitive. And it didn't take long. Nowadays our computers have enabled us to run so many options that we never do get to the answer we want ... always got to run ONE more option ... it might be better.

Sometimes simpler things are really better.

RocketDawg wrote:

Glitch, you joke about your abacus ...

*Snip*

Saturn V was designed and built, and we went to the moon, using such devices that now seem quite primitive.

And it didn't take long. Nowadays our computers have enabled us to run so many options that we never do get to the answer we want ... always got to run ONE more option ... it might be better.

Sometimes simpler things are really better.

I whole heatedly agree Rocket Dawg -

Technology for the last 10 years or so has been the bane of my life, Now it's one comparability issue or hot fix after another, driver woes, web site module hiccup etc - and of course badly coded software with no real de-bugging help or company support! other than some random forum in china... It sucks when you know more than the guy at the help desk and your stumped.. lol

I have become (Sadly lol) the go to guy in my social circles for anyone with a technology / hardware / software issue.... Anything from replacing screens to virus removal - recent;y it's been using the ODBII format to get into car ECU's ICU's etc as a cheap diagnostic fro a friend who has just opened a garage onhis own... everythings getting more complicated and computer reliant.... Sometimes I find myself scouring GitHub and the like for fixes that are being ignored by manufactures and developers..... It drives me mad.

I won't shy away from the challenge of learning new things... but the air is blue at times! I have a Sony Laptop to repair at the mo - and this ones filling the "swear Jar" rapidly....

from Credit card terminal to my sons PC's Playstation's / tablets mobiles, laptops i'll try and fix anything...

Now the REAL amazement of the technology and power in the palm of our hand is well often overlooked - A super computer the size of pack of cigarettes or smaller! We went to the moon on the computing power of a "One Dollar" Chinese calculator - And for sure achieved so much with so little - Quite the polar opposite now eh?! the power to compute huge data instantly - and not really reached even half the potential of achievement

I have a phone that has a cache on the cpu bigger then the RAM / Memory on my first SINCLAIR ZX Spectrum - it had a whopping 48k! You can hardly save 600 word in a .doc file now yet the thing, clunky and weird as it was at the time (Tape player as the data medium)

Line 10 "Run"
Line 20 "Load" : "Jet Set Willy"
....... Wait.... Play!


Me and the wife both say quite often how nice it was without the "Matrix" & "Big Brother" all around us - We had freedom, and a lot less of the Social snobbery and keeping up with the Jones's

"Eh, back in the day - when we had 3 TV channels!"

Yep, well said Glitch. I'm a bit older. The town I grew up in only had one television station, and the picked what they though was the best from the three networks in existence then. We got along just fine because we didn't know any better. Now we're strapped to our computers and feel positively naked without our iPhone in our pockets. You gotta wonder what the next few years of technology will bring.

Let's hope we really go to Mars this time. It's been a long time coming. I want to see some of those "manufactured objects" up close and personal. I really hope that's what they are.

from the 40's & 50's onwards, science fiction gave way to science fact in so many ways -
but unfortunately there's so much "We were promised" with regards to certain technologies and ambitions just haven't come to fruition in the way I and my friends at school imagined.

I honestly as a kid in the 80's - Living in India and the UK (My dad worked out in Panjim / Panaji in Goa) watching sci-fy and reading Osbourne books about the wonders to be had in space exploration and colonization - Being told about these amazing stories from the Mahabharata - gods in flying cities and energy weapons like the "Dorje" and "Trishula" - I thought the future held a lot more in the way of exploration and understanding of the cosmos... The tibetans and Hindus have the most fascinating (and believable lol) religious history.

I remember my mom explaining to me Jesus was a space man. maybe even a time traveler - My imagination was wide and open... school kinda quashed a lot by mocking my ideas and insisting God was some white guy sat on a cloud... and how dare I question it etc... Faith is important, no matter if spirtual / scientific / however you get the hope and faith its crucial for the soul. I respect everyone no matter their faith or belief - like I would expect in return - even with a bit of ribbing or questioning! (other than Xenophobic morons lol)

these regimented and non deviating "narrow" minded attitudes suck a lot - the "Smithsonian effect" I like to call it.

I do certainly hope we (humanity) get off our obese and generally arrogant selfish bums, and get out into the solar system with a big push - I agree with Elon - If we don't humanity will die rapidly - certainly sooner than the next 250,000 years even the next 250 years.

Humanity has the curiosity to explore - yet it seems to lack the real desire to stop bickering like kids in a playground.

Feet on the Moon, Feet on Mars please in the next 10 - 20 years...