Re: Got It!
 

But its for the two. Is the oppurtunity another Mars Rover. If it is, and the two refers to the two Mars Rovers then why is this season for them? Would they be good at performing the game? What exactly are they good at doing?

Re: **FIRST EMAIL**/FRC Game Hint #2
 

Maybe it refers to the fact that they were built to roam, manipulate, take pictures, and collect data from Mars?

Re: **FIRST EMAIL**/FRC Game Hint #2
 

Hmmm... All of our robots "roam" and "manipulate", thats been part of the game from the beginning. But taking pictures, that would refer to a importance of the vision system (the season is for them, they are good at taking pictures, so we do to). Could the robots collect data (IR board maybe)? and use that in some way?

Re: Got It!
 

How much time have you got?

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Basically - continuing to survive and perform tasks that continue to help our awesome folks at NASA in their exploration of different areas of Mars. Spirit and Opportunity are, indeed, the names of the robust rovers.

http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/home/index.html

Re: Got It!
 

Opportunity is the second of the two still active Mars Rover it is the brother of Spirit, well I know that Spirit landed on Mars on January 3rd (was part of the FLL during "Mission To Mars")and that isn't far off from the game kick-off for this year and I believe opportunity landed twelve days later, and they are only good at picking up rocks and digging holes and that rovering about thats pretty much it.

Re: **FIRST EMAIL**/FRC Game Hint #2
 

342.242026 is the speed of sound in m/s @ 65' F

Re: **FIRST EMAIL**/FRC Game Hint #2
 

Amazing that's a cool find:)
So far I've heard about the third number as bearing, speed of sound, IP address, frequency, temp(in Kelvins), and who knows what else. So what's left?:confused:

Re: **FIRST EMAIL**/FRC Game Hint #2
 

There's no good way to get the speed of sound to so many decimal places, but that's close enough for me anyway. The number of decimal places is also troubling for bearing and temperature as well. As for IP address, since the highest number is limited to 255, having a 342 is right out.

Wow, the speed of light as compared to the speed of sound (acoustic sensors, anyone?) could be an element, and even if it's not, that would be cool for the future. Maybe the speed of dark?

Don

Re: **FIRST EMAIL**/FRC Game Hint #2
 

Hey, my thoughts about the speed of dark is that it is as fast or faster than light(and maybe not even that).
As for the IP address check it out for yourself. I don't know how I found it so easily (even when the highest address is 255 :confused:http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?...3 42.24.20.26

Re: **FIRST EMAIL**/FRC Game Hint #2
 

Has anyone though to just add and subtract

42.349905
-71.076072
+342.242026
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313.515859... I don't know what it could be used for but its a simple ideal that most people may have overlooked and it could be important...I don't know just throwing my ideal out there.

Re: **FIRST EMAIL**/FRC Game Hint #2
 

I googled the number 313.515859 out of curiosity, and all I got was this thread. Oh well, back to the speculation.

Re: **FIRST EMAIL**/FRC Game Hint #2
 

I think it just represents an UltraSonic Sensor like this

-71.076072 could be an angle?

Re: **FIRST EMAIL**/FRC Game Hint #2
 

Good find. :)

From this data, I conclude that we must build robots cabable of surviving a 65' drop and maintain functionality. :p

Wow. That'd be a really precise angle.

Re: **FIRST EMAIL**/FRC Game Hint #2
 

Dave's had the "My other car is still on Mars" as part of his signature for several years now.

Re: **FIRST EMAIL**/FRC Game Hint #2
 

Brain attack! OK, not really, but what about radians?

A conversion into radians yields:
0.73914528
-1.240511476
5.973250192

Into degrees from rads:
2426.470819=266.470819 on a circle
-4072.35895=-112.35895
308.017238234

I don't have Google Earth, so these are fair game for searching.

And, just for grins, as fractions (idea from ChrisH):
42 183/523
-71 55/723
342 84/347