pic: Game Hint GPS on Mars

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After some trial and error, I found out how to map GPS coordinates into Google Mars. Thus, here is the 2008 game hint on Mars.

[strike]Formerly[/strike] water game anyone? :stuck_out_tongue:

#2

notice how there are craters on each side of this streaming ravine area? I wonder if there are going to be circle goals on two sides with some sort of line work/ribbon/pole deco between them.

BTW, best use of game hint ever.

#3

Obviously we’re going to have to build a robot that goes to mars

#4

simple enough.

#5

Hello FEDEX can you ship this crate to Mars? :smiley:

#6

ahem. :slight_smile: I thought of this way back in April!

After many trials and tribulations, including squinting and typing in the URL in the picture – how did you do this? I finally put the picture side-by-side with google and searched ( :ahh: ) – but I found it!

“Bother,” said Pooh, “Eeyore, ready two photon torpedoes and lock phasers on the Heffalump. Piglet, meet me in transporter room three. Christopher Robin, you have the bridge.”

#7

Isn’t the suggested hint of the dry river bed between craters just simply magnificent?

#8

I thought those were caused by Dave’s robots moving back & forth so many times over the same spot… over 1400 Sols and counting.

Good thing NASA didn’t buy the extended warranty.

Don

#9

Yes.

Or rather, **No, **not anymore, since Fed-Ex’s sponsorship of Space Mountain in Walt Disney World ended in 2004/2005. :frowning:

#10

i also found if you reverse the coordinates on planet earth you get to Antarctica
right under Argentina

#11

Indeed you do.

#12

Looks more like a flooding after a dam break, the amount of water (or whatever liquid it may be) overflowing the riverbank and scouring the surrounding plains. I remember seeing something on Nova about this, but I couldn’t find a picture.

Maybe in April if we go to the Finals on Mars I can check this out…

#13

Be sure to take lots of photos!

#14

Field Guess:
http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f242/ErwinTheSketcher/FieldGuess.jpg

#15

I always hated the game Frogger. :rolleyes:
http://www.atariguide.com/ss/frogger.gif

#16

Maybe it’s actually a hit for 2009, when they’ll be having the inaugural Mars regional.

#17

Actually this is plausible. I heard from Robot magazine that NASA is hosting the X-Prize. It’s for anyone who can send a rover to Mars.:slight_smile:

#18

Reminiscence of this thread maybe:http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showthread.php?t=58752&highlight=mars
Could FIRST be in contact with google?:smiley:

Also championships will be pretty expensive to go to if it is on Mars; if its still in Atlanta, we have an issue with the playing field.

#19

Maybe the championship (there is no “Nationals”) playing field will be on Mars, but all the operator stations will be in Atlanta…

#20

Maybe it is slip and slide… You don’t need tanks, but it had better be water-proof.