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Holding On To Hope For Beagle 2
slasher999 writes "Scientists are still keeping their hopes up that they will be able to revive Beagle via the Mars Express mothership on 4 January. On that date the ship will be in the correct orbit and may then be able to revive the lander. Current theroies as to what may have gone wrong include the possibility that the landers on-board clock is incorrect and that the lander has been transmitting at incorrect times. Funny, I thought I heard that as of yesterday the batteries on the lander would have been depleted unless the lander had received an order to recharge its batteries."
"Current theroies as to what may have gone wrong include the possibility that the landers on-board clock is incorrect and that the lander has been transmitting at incorrect times."
:)
Or maybe they're using kilos as their base time unit.
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That's what they get for not using ntpd. ;-)
picked a better band tha Blur to write a song for them? I mean....
As a cost-cutting measure (and considering that Blur was one of the sponsors), they must have built the lander around an iPod.
Okay, of all the space projects I guess I could expect a silly human error hiccup...but just one, and it's really silly.
So, now we see the next project, they ask for more millions of dollars for experts and high tech equipment, and oops - this time we forgot to set that pesky clock!
Wait a minute, I think I see a pattern here....
- deal with the inevitable.
- grieve for your loss.
- move on.
Never let your emotions get tangled up with something as silly as a space probe. It isn't healthy. So Beagle 2 fails. Big whoop. Deal with it and move on.Tarsnap: Online backups for the truly paranoid
1. Tell Starbuck's that the Martian Coffee market is untapped.
2. Tell them the best location for coffee sales is the landing site of the Beagle 2
3. Wait the 2 weeks for them to build the store
4. Order a tall latte and 1 hour of wi-fi
5. Connect to the beagle 2 using your local wi-fi
6. Drink your latte
This would cost the EU goverments about $7 (for the latte and 1 hour wi-fi) and they get a latte out of the deal!
Yes, because Europeans use SPECIAL radio waves, different from the ones the rest of the world uses, and they only fit inside European satellite dishes.
jX [ Make everything as simple as possible, but no simpler. - Einstein ]
Sorry, but what`s this story about ? I`ve heard somebody called Colin Pillinger has lost his beagle. Look, I`m a animal lover but it`s just a bloody dog. It`s probably just hopped over the wall is is humping the neighbour`s poodle. Do we really have to have constant new reports about this ?
My advice to Colin is stop making such a fuss and go and stick some "Lost Dog" posters up on nearby lamp-posts like everybody else.
I'm sorry, does anyone actually use metric time? Okay, maybe some scientists, or programming students for a project assigned by a mildly vicious professor, but as far as the rest of the world is concerned.....
I mean, does this sound right? "At work promptly at 3.75, and out the door and on the way home at 7.0833." (which corresponds to a 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. work day)
The preceding was brought to you by low blood sugar and lack of caffiene.
Kierthos
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1. Denial
2. Anger
3. Bargaining
4. Depression
5. Acceptance
I believe the Beagle team is firmly in stage 1 but after this quote, "At the moment, I am frustrated rather than concerned." some are already drifting into stage 2.
Lithium-ion?
They better not call the Apple rep. Shipping and handling will deal a killing blow to the budget, even if the battery can be replaced for 'only' $99 by a qualified Apple tech.
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Martians should be confused with so much robots incoming.
Their thoughts must be:
Regards and happy 2004!!!.
Perhaps they didn't know how to program the clock, and left it flashing 12:00, like my dad's VCR.
It's not offtopic, dumbass. It's orthogonal.
Li-Ion Battery replacement : $99.00
Milage charge ( > 50 miles from nearest repair depot):
$.45/mi * 250,000,000mi: $112,500,000
total: $112,500,099 + VAT.
Note: Although this would make the repair charge more expensive than the entire incremental charges for the beagle-2 mission, it would still be the cheapest way to fund for a manned mars mission.
Unfortunately, I'm betting that they didn't contract for an extended warranty for this thing. This was done on the cheap, you know.
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maybe they should just have paid the damn $400 for OnStar..
Ummm, err, say what, now?
250 Million miles and only one try to get it right.... Although I envy the opportunity to make the attempt, I don't envy the need for near perfection.
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It's display is probably flashing 12:00.
They picked Blur to write the callsign.
The computer died of shame.
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