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Re: Uhmm... coincidence, or no?
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lugnet.robotics
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Thu, 15 Jan 2004 12:08:50 GMT
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Mark Tarrabain <markt@lynx.SPAMBLOCK.net> writes:
> 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?
No, but NASA let LEGO name them (sort of).
http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/newsroom/pressreleases/20030114a.html
Jürgen
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Jürgen Stuber <stuber@loria.fr>
http://www.loria.fr/~stuber/
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 | | Re: Uhmm... coincidence, or no?
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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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| | Uhmm... coincidence, or no?
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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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