i'm still here. very busy with all of nasa's requests these days. kind of looking forward to being on mars, but not if they keep pestering me like this.

i really hope there is an entry failure. i bet plasma doesn't ever feel like this.

stardust says they are too busy preparing for the wild 2 flyby. said maybe we could do something after that. didn't bother to point out that i'll be stuck on mars then. life sucks.

i'm such an idiot. i asked if stardust wanted to do some joint observations. no answer yet. i can't believe i did that.

dot line circle hyperbola parabola
ellipse
dot: the building block
line: the division of all things
circle: equidistant and perfect
hyperbola: approaching, approaching, never reaching
parabola: boring pragmatism squared
ellipse: uncircle, mysterious foci
my path, my life, my guide
carry me, ellipse
carry me

hohmann transfer orbit
i coast along you, anchored in time
pastearth behind me
futuremars ahead
my doom awaits

i can't believe how often nasa compares me with opportunity. i'm totally different from her. i'm never going to get good grades like she does. i don't even really care about that crap.

like a rock i fall
out towards my fate
red mars
red, red mars
let your hands drip
drip with my blood

i was really hoping that I could just be left alone during the cruise phase, but nooooo. nasa is always bugging me about something. if it is already this bad then i'm not looking forward to the actuall mission.

oh well, i'll probably be lost on entry.

i heard about this livejournal thing from stardust and thought it might be cool. i didn't get to talk to him today, though. the deep space network is totally unfair to younger probes ( Read more... )