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FYI, MRO was able to find useful information about the cause of the Beagle 2 failure.

Any bit of data can potentially help in pinpointing failure causes.

History is an interesting subject, you should look into it some time. Here, I'll get you started:

New Finds Suggest Biblical Kings David and Solomon Actually Existed
King David’s Palace was Uncovered in the Judean Shephelah (July 2013)

Siege of Jerusalem (AD 70) (Roman)

You're confused. Humans *are* great apes (aka hominids, a taxonomic family). Our common ancestor with other apes was itself a great ape. Chimpanzees are more closely related to humans than either are to Gorillas, even though all three are great apes, because the common ancestor between Chimpanzee and Human is a descendant of the common ancestor between the three and Gorilla.

Look here: http://www.evolutionarymodel.c...

Here's the study on what the last common ancestor between humans and extant non-humans probably looked like: http://www.sci-news.com/others...

The early images of Ceres' "bright spots," which generated a lot of excitement, had extremely high contrast.

The latest images, as expected, have much higher resolution. What's unexpected is, the contrast is not as striking.

What do Slashdotters think... was the contrast of the early images exaggerated just to generate buzz for the Dawn mission?

http://www.sciencemag.org/cont... This came out earlier this month. See http://www.sci-news.com/physic... for a summary.

Yes, I assume you've read about the recent creation of NaCl3, NaCl7, Na3Cl2, Na2Cl, and Na3Cl at high pressures, compounds not possible in standard chemistry.

‘Impossible’ Sodium Chlorides Challenge Foundation of Chemistry

Dmanisi Human: Skull from Georgia Implies All Early Homo Species were One | Anthropology | Sci-News.com