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Jodrell Bank Telescope Gets No Signal From Beagle
tipiyano writes "Continuing the story of Beagle 2 from earlier today it seems like the hope for Beagle 2 surviving the landing at Mars is reducing as the Jodrell Bank telescope didn't receive any signal from Beagle. In the words of a mission manager, 'I wasn't too worried about the missed link with Odyssey, but it starts getting serious if Jodrell Bank cannot get a signal either'."
Looks like the Martians got another one...
Boycott everything - they're all trying to fuck you one way or another
forgot the double-A's again this Christmas...
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But what about the Beagle's problems? It's all alone on Mars and probably can't signal back it's existence.
Poor thing.
I have been pwned because my
1. The Europeans are as incompetent as the Americunts (naaaaaah!)
2. There is something on Mars which hates space probes!
Flight managers ... said they had narrowed Beagle-2's likely landing area to an ellipse just 30 kilometers wide and 5 kilometers long
Yes. All over that area.
The coolest voice ever.
for the Martian Air Defenses!
(Wonder if they buy their flying-saucer fuel from Halliburton?)
1. I think Martians found out what happened to American Natives (American Indians). So they figured they don't want to be annihilated the same way. So they are shooting down the probes. Intelligent life will not try to contact humans. The probes that landed had their cameras pointed to desolate areas to deter humans from thinking about trying to colonize Mars.
.. better... cheaper etc.. I think?
2. Perhaps building space probes should be outsourced to India
Maybe it's suffering from the BSOD and no one is there to hit ctrl-alt-del?
Seems like the Beagle team should have coughed up the cash for a Monster Cable surge protector.
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> I bet you're all virgins.
Shhhh.... Don't tell my kids.
KHAN:
Goodbye, Admiral. Oh, and don't
count on the Beagle. She can't
move. My next act will be to blow
her out of the heavens.
KIRK:
KHAAAN!
(Obscure Star Trek reference craves moderation of the Funny type from hip Gen-Xer with a softspot for nostalgia.)
Michael.
Linux : Mac
...of simply crossing their fingers and hoping everything works out for the best.
~Philly
Yeah, and we could teach them a thing or two about grammar too.
It is now official - Jordell Bank has confirmed: Beagle2 is dying
Yet another crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered Mars exploration community when recently ESA confirmed that Beagle2 accounts for less than a fraction of 1 percent of chances for survival. Coming on the heels of the latest Jordell Bank signal analysis which plainly states that Beagle2 has lost radio contact, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Beagle2 is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent radiotelescope comprehensive signal search.
You don't need to be a Aldrin to predict Beagle2's future. The hand writing is on the wall: Beagle2 faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Beagle2 because Beagle2 is dying. Things are looking very bad for Beagle2. As many of us are already aware, Beagle2 continues to lose power. Red dust covers it like a river of blood. The lander rover is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core systems. The sudden and unpleasant failures of long time rover systems of traction and cameras only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: Beagle2 is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
All major surveys show that Beagle2 has steadily declined in survival chances. Beagle2 is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If Beagle2 is to survive at all it will be among martian hobbyist junk collectors. Beagle2 continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Beagle2 is dead.
Fact: Beagle2 is dead
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Beagle is fitted with state of the art, top of the range Pringles tin....
liqbase
s/s h/ sh/
Think of it in a positive way. It'll save a lot of money that otherwise would be spent analysing the signals and coming up with conclusive evidence that Mars has rocks on it.
Regards,
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*Art
"Look what dey did to my damn car!" the ambassador, disguised as a homeless psychotic person in downtown Memphis, TN, insisted. "I'll kick their ass. Dropin' landers and shit all over. Look at that mess!"
The ambassador refused further questions regarding a possible response from Mars, saying only that somebody owed him "a new damn car."
That's our life, the big wheel of shit. - The Fat Man, Blue Tango Salvage
3. Mars is damn hard to land on.
Probably want to tighten up that regexp; I doubt he "wa shaving" a pretty good Christmas.
Maybe they should put some aluminum foil on the antenna. It works for our TV's rabbit ears.
Table-ized A.I.
Wow! Sounds like the way to run a space program.
The lesson here kids, is, "never try"
- Homer Simpson
There is no reason to bash the Europeans as a whole as they like to do Americans.
What an odd way to bash Europeans...
I found a picture of the probe on the back of a milk carton.
Table-ized A.I.
For most slashdotters, if it weren't for their hands, they couldn't count.
:-)
take it as you read it
Visit CryptoGnome in his home.
PETA heard on the grapevine that ESA was killing beagles, in the pursuit of space exploration.
Expect a strongly worded denunciation and protest march later this week.
Visit CryptoGnome in his home.
the craft managed to transmit one final image before the comm links went out.
& just can't cope with wet weather unless a rubber glove is tied arround it's dizzy, I mean its electronics, & it rained on launch day.
Try 1 for 1, not counting Beagle or the current Spirit and Opportunity probes.
;-)
Shh... don't jinx it. It'd be tragic to see Spirit crushed, and Opportunity lost.
The Viking landers were around 576 Kilograms, around 200 pounds of which was fuel.
Now, see, that's just the sort of mixing of Metric and Imperial measure that got us in trouble on Mars before
Beagle 2 is 68 Kilograms. The Viking landers were around 576 Kilograms, around 200 pounds of which was fuel.
Dude, seriously don't mix up your units. We already crashed one over that.
The Beagle is stranded.
I am the unwilling control for my Origin.
Amazing how it's running on Linux and command center is running on Linux and nobody comments on that. If it was Microsoft there would be pages of replies blaming them.
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - I took the one the bus load of girls just went down.