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Spirit Rover Lands Successfully

Posted by michael on from the airbags-save-lives dept.

So, as I write this, the latest word is: the Spirit rover has landed and NASA has received a signal indicating it landed right-side up (so it shouldn't have any problems in the unfolding process) and will shortly be retracting the protective airbags which kept it from splattering all over the countryside. Y'all can fill in later news in the comments below. There's a nice site with up-to-the-minute text updates.

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  1. Re:Take that Beagle 2! by daveashcroft · · Score: 2, Flamebait

    what a pathetic little man. Rather than be sad that valuable science wont be done with the demise of beagle 2, you start whooping at USA being #1. Pathetic narrowminded asshole. Wait till the twin probe kills this one by friendly fire.

  2. Impossible! by Phaid · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    According to An Earlier Slashdot Article, "Seems that NASA has actually lost the edge in robotic space exploration."

    So how can this be?!? It must be more US Lies!

  3. Re:Take that Beagle 2! by Joey7F · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    You mean we should take the same attitude as the Europeans did when our last mars mission failed. They sure had a lot to say about it. If the Beagle had landed...in one piece (which isn't totally out of the question) they would certainly be pointing it out to us as another case of America throwing its money around.

    I hope the Beagle is successful because I take a science uber alles pov. But you got to admit, it is nice for them to get a taste of their own arrogant medicine from time to time. Newsflash for everyone on the other side of the pond: That brown stuff you pinch out...yeah...it stinks. You all are not gods, not masters of technology, and you screw up stuff all the time, as much if not more than we do. So eat it, try again next time and may science continue to win...

    --Joey

  4. Re:Ground Zero by Tablizer · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    God help NASA. First, they can't employ people who can work out the conversions between metric and imperial. Then they employ support lackies who can't spell, "congratulations" properly.

    I am sure the author would rather hang out among JPL personell more than sit around and check grammar. He/she was graceful enough to give us a guick update on the experience. Stop complaning or we will get NOTHING next time. I hope they use you for future mission air bags.

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  5. Re:Next on Mars is power by mnmn · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    And have the martians think we're sending nukes crashing into their crust?

    If Greenpeace wont let you pollute Earth, pollute Mars!

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    "Give orange me give eat orange me eat orange give me eat orange give me you." -Nim Chimpsky