Launching and landing

Posted on May 16, 2008 by Justin Dolske

Today we launched the first Release Candidate of Firefox 3 (yay!). 7 days from now, NASA will be landing a spacecraft on Mars. I thought it might be interesting to compare the two…

The browser The spacecraft
Original name: Phoenix Mars Surveyor 2001 Lander
Current name: Firefox Phoenix
Mission: Make kick-ass software, promote the open web Study water, soil, weather at northern polar region of Mars
Cost: Free! $420 million
Performance: Fast! Twelve 293-Newton thrusters
Powered by: Mozilla Solar panels
Takes flames: Alex Faaborg Ablative heat shield
Management: Mike Mike
Special powers: Robot and laser Robotic arm and laser
News updates: Twitter Twitter
Disaster plan: RC2 :-(

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4 Responses to Launching and landing

  1. Blair McBride says:
    May 17, 2008 at 12:29 am

    Haha, that’s awesome.

    I like Firefox’s disaster plan better…

  2. Mossop says:
    May 17, 2008 at 6:46 am

    Hahahaha excellent.
    One of your facts is flawed though. While Firefox may be free to users I don’t think you can claim it cost nothing to develop it. If that were true, well you and I would be out of a job :)

  3. Tomcat says:
    May 17, 2008 at 1:56 pm

    Awesome Post !!

  4. Havvy says:
    May 18, 2008 at 8:32 am

    Hey, I found a post by Mossop…

    Nice comparison.

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