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Re: Uhmm... coincidence, or no?
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lugnet.robotics
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Thu, 15 Jan 2004 04:04:45 GMT
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Andy Gombos <gombos_2000@SAYNOTOSPAMearthlink.net>
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Would you like your tin foil hat now? :p
Seriously, it would be neat if everything tied in intentionally.
Mark Tarrabain wrote:
> LEGO came out with a a Mindstorms set called "Exploration Mars" the same
> year that Mindstorms itself came out.
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> Lego Mindstorms' ActiveX control is called SPIRIT.OCX.
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> NASA's latest Mars rover is named Spirit.
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> Does anyone else find this to be a freaky coincidence? Or were the
> people at LEGO who designed Mindstorms in the know about what NASA's
> lander launched only last year was going to be called?
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> > > Mark
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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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| 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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