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LEGO came out with a a Mindstorms set called "Exploration Mars" the same year that Mindstorms itself came out. Lego Mindstorms' ActiveX control is called SPIRIT.OCX. NASA's latest Mars rover is named Spirit. Does anyone else find this to be a freaky (...) (21 years ago, 15-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Uhmm... coincidence, or no?
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Would you like your tin foil hat now? :p Seriously, it would be neat if everything tied in intentionally. (...) (21 years ago, 15-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Wasn't that because the Sojourner robot was out and about on Mars at about that time? I also had some vague recollection that someone involved in the NASA robot had worked on Mindstorms....I could be wrong about that part though. (...) Well, (...) (21 years ago, 15-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) No, but NASA let LEGO name them (sort of). (URL) Jürgen Stuber <stuber@loria.fr> (URL) (21 years ago, 15-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Have you noticed how names and concepts developed in 'Star Trek' have been transferred to NASA's space program? Do you doubt there is top-secret work to develop a food-replicator? (This is really going off-topic...?! My apologies.) Jerry (21 years ago, 15-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) So perhaps the kids that suggested Spirit as the name associated the word with mars via an unintential subliminal reference to spirit.ocx in one of the windows applications? I dunno... Maybe I'm reaching. I'm not generally a conspiracy (...) (21 years ago, 15-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) It's just a coincidence. I was working at LEGO at the time and it had nothing to do with NASA. Also, as others have pointed out, the name Spirit came from a contest for schoolkids, and is one of a pair of rovers, the other being Opportunity. (21 years ago, 21-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics)
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