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Lost Beagle2 probe found 'intact' on Mars

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Re: Lost Beagle2 probe found 'intact' on Mars

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One time in a interview I got asked "If two robots are lost on mars and can't communicate with one another, how do they find each other? - please write a program outlining your thoughts" I just want to be clear it took an actual space agency 11 years to pull this off and the company I interviewed at just backed up data for people.

If they can't communicate with each other, why would they want to meet? Assuming Mars is featureless (if it has features, they can both climb Olympic mons, for instance, as Mike Ash already said) and they cannot leave Mars (if hey do, they could have agreed before to meet in a bar in, say, Paris), the solutions I can think of all are a bit impractical: - both dig a hole to the center of Mars and wait there for the ot…

It's easier to go to the North or South Pole, instead of the center of the planet, because you don't have to dig so much. As a guide you can use a gyrocompass that don't need a magnetic field for orientation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyrocompass IANARS

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Love the book. Scared about the movie. Matt Damon seems an odd cast for the role. He's not that kind of funny.

You should watch Dogma, I know it's been quite a while but he's absolutely hilarious in it.

The character is a clown who is stuck in a serious situation. He's a funny guy, a joker, and that keeps him alive.

Matt Damon is a serious actor, who can do a serious character. Put a serious character into a funny situation, and it can be very funny. But put a serious character actor into a funny man role, and well... I'm hopeful, but worried.

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