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NASA Recovers Genesis

Posted by michael on from the any-landing-you-can-walk-away-from dept.

zjango writes "CNN carrying this... 'The Genesis capsule which crashed in the Utah desert Wednesday has been lifted out of its impact crater and moved to a holding area, NASA reported on its Web site. Scientists were cautiously optimistic that the payload -- dozens of fragile tiles that had collected particles of the solar wind for about two years -- could still yield viable material.'"

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  1. Re:Great news.... maybe. by Randolpho · · Score: 2, Funny

    Heh... it's kinda like when you miss the game and your favorite team loses. It's all your fault because you weren't there to cheer them on!

    YOU JINX!!! You broke Genesis! It was planet forbidden!!!! ;)

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  2. Re:Quarantine. by Otter · · Score: 3, Funny

    It's not like the probe went through some Star Trek-ish continuum rift. If there were something like that out there, not all that far away, it would have hitched a ride down on a meteorite a billion years ago.

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  3. Re:Quarantine. by bcattwoo · · Score: 2, Funny

    Just to be safe, send all your gold and platinum possessions to me for safe keeping.

  4. This just in... by MasterDirk · · Score: 5, Funny
    Preliminary research on the materials recovered from the probe lead scientists to conclude that the sun is indeed composed mainly of sand and broken glass.
    </badjoke>
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    "Programming is like sex: one mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life."

  5. Re:Sorry to burst your bubble by torpor · · Score: 2, Funny

    Your fears are science fiction, not science.

    okay, if you say so, fine by me. don't blame me if this statement ends up in a .sig file, or scraped on a cave wall somewhere, but ...

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  6. Re:Are we sure it was an accident? by wetlettuce · · Score: 2, Funny

    Big deal, Europe MISSED MARS two times out of four.
    Technically, the last time the landing craft (Beagle-2) actually landed on Mars...just a little quicker than planned. If fact almost exactly the same as the Genesis payload except there was no-one to dig it out.