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Still No Contact from Beagle 2
Many of you have submitted this, so this will be a condensing of the relevant information. WebfishUK writes: "The BBC has just released this story which announces the failure of the latest and possibly best chance to contact the British built Mars probe, Beagle 2. Given that Mars Express was designed to communicate with Beagle (unlike the earlier attempts with NASA's Mars Odyssey), this may indicate that something catastrophic has happened to Beagle 2." From Bromrrrrr: "[The]
ESA is reporting that the Mars Express, which everybody was hoping would be able to get through to the poor lost puppy, has failed its first attempt. 'We have not lost hope yet to contact Beagle 2, but we also know that it has landed on an unforgiving planet,' said David Southwood, ESA's Director of Science." and I-R-Baboon adds: "The Mars Express mothership from the EU passed 350 km over the intended landing site of the Beagle 2 hearing only silence. Although nothing was heard, hope has not been given up yet, as scientists will keep trying until February, with more passovers of the Beagle 2's landing site on January 8th, 9th, 10th, 12th, and 14th." Additional updates can be obtained from the Beagle 2 homepage as well as from the ESA's homepage for the Mars Express. Here's hoping that the lander is only down, and not out.
The US succeeded where the EU did not
only country to attempt to go to the moon (russians never wanted to go, nor planned to go) sending shit out the solar system is nothing, u just push it, first to discover life on mars? we'll see...
There will be lots of posts here about how America is better than Europe at spaceflight and these will quickly get modded down.
Yet posts on other topics (e.g., foreign policy) about how Europe is better than America always get modded up.
Can someone explain this to me?
Well I hope the Brits have finally learned. We are way better than them at most everything, including their own sports (soccer) that we dont even try hard at, and sending shit to Mars. The only thing more laughable would be France trying to do something innovative or adventurous. Silly little French.
I suppose you don't want to talk about that piece of quality american math that went to Mars a few years ago????
And the Russions almost beat you to the Moon. (They did beat you to orbit, both unmanned, dogged(sp?) and manned)
Jeroen
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Its funny because its anti-bush, anti-gulfwar2, and anti-american. The world hates you... DEAL WITH IT!
Don't send a worthless piece of European dog shit to do a man's job. Whether it's Mars, Iraq, the Soviet Union, Hitler, whatever the hell have you: All Europeans are as worthless as the French pussies who are stinking up that woebegone continent.
Attention all You're-a-Pee'ins: Just commit mass suicide NOW and let the adults who are actually RUNNING this planet go on about without all the annoying CARPING.
Cooperate?
With Americans?
In the same way that we cooperated with you after the war, you mean - you steal all our data, then our people, then our aircraft industry is fucked because you don't buy foreign 'planes anyway.
That's cooperation American style.
That was classic intercourse!
We had your kind of patriotism in Germany too once you know? It's called fascism now.
We have to cut back on killing eachother and supressing eachother before we can colonize another planet.
Why, when we have all new races out there to kill off?
Wow, I should not post when knackered.