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Beagle II Successfully Separates
Control42 writes "After the long journey out, it seems that little Beagle II, the lander of the Mars express mission has successfully separated. If all goes well, the lander should touch down on Christmas Day. Seems that NASA has actually lost the edge in robotic space exploration." Reader chalker writes "In order to build public interest in the Mars Exploration Rovers 2004 missions landing in January, NASA has released a series of movie trailers (Flash enabled page, Windows Media and Quicktime formats) for what they are calling "M2K4". They contain quite amazing animations of the landings, as well as a professional artistic style typically seen in action movie trailers.
Additional videos on the launch, cruise, and landing challenges can be found at the JPL based mission site."
I, for one, welcome our new British overlords.
Only 5 generations 'til we get to the R2 series!
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
See the Mars robot scrape up soil samples. Watch it analyse the atmosphere. Be awed by the movement over harsh landscape.
Welcome to Mars!
-Certified TechnoWeinie
Once, I had to get two beagles to seperate by spraying them with a garden hose.
NASA hasn't lost its edge, it just has a different focus.
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Yeah.. 'cause Beagle 2 will be playing Blur tunes when it lands... it's hip and cool!
British-made spacecraft? Damn, that's gonna be impossible to find parts for.
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M2K4, soon to be shown on MST3K.
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"After the long journey out, it seems that little Beagle II, the lander of the Mars express mission has successfully separated. If all goes well, the lander should touch down on Christmas Day."
Awwww, how cute, we gave Mars an Aibo for Christmas...
ESA has two as well - the part of Beagle that's going to land, and the part that's staying in orbit :-)
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Not Beagles
...none of the ESA's member nations use Imperial measurements for much of anything other than selling beer anymore, so there's no conversions for them to screw up.
I for one welcome our overlords!
M2K4/God_high.mov
M2K4/water_high.mov
M2K4/Sixminutes_high.mov
You need to install an RTFM interface.
So we're now just waiting for the news that the Beagle has landed.
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Ugh. I've lived in England for 15 years now, and the one thing that I know is that 70% of British people speak almost undecipherable English - the accents are very heavy in most (especially) northern palces. In Inner city areas, you would have problems understanding how much a newspaper costs. That's how bad the dialects are - it makes a good ol' Southern accent seem like a tiny difference.
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Precisely. :-)
You see, the Martians are very adaptable, like the aliens in Alien Nation.
And another thing- wait.. is it me, or we arguing over a slur against a nonexistent species?
--- Ban humanity.
So to give equal time to the creationists, will NASA be required to launch a probe called Eden++ or Turbo Ark?
I make my face look like this and concerned words come out.
Well, maybe not yet. I couldn't wait any longer.. :)
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Bloody Southern fairies.... ;-)
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I couldn't find a picture of Colin Pillinger pushing Beagle2 on a shopping trolley, but I found a picture of a beagle pushing a trolley.
Now you know where all those US government research bucks are going...
Instead of spelling?