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Beagle 3 Plans Revealed

Posted by timothy on from the this-time-it-must-bark dept.

Richard W.M. Jones writes "While the UK's Beagle 2 may have been a well-publicised failure, the same team claims to have learned lessons and are now developing plans for Beagle 3. The new probe might be attached to a European mission due to launch in 2009 as part of Europe's Aurora project."

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  1. One feature in Beagle 3 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Will be a gun with a flashlight!

  2. What really happened to Beagle 2 by tlon · · Score: 5, Funny

    And in related news today, Symantec Corporation announced that it has developed innoculation files for the W32.Beagle.3@mm virus. Symantec officials commented that there is no apparent link between Beagle.2 and the crash of the Beagle lander, but it is not taking any chances.

  3. British engineering by MadFarmAnimalz · · Score: 4, Funny

    the same team claims to have learned lessons

    Translation: They're going to paint it flourescent green so they can tell where it crashed.

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  4. Beagle #2,019,197,204,183,110 has the answer! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Mars's composition is mainly... Beagle material.

  5. Plan for success by plover · · Score: 3, Funny
    Step 1: Attach antenna.

    Step 2: Double check that antenna is attached really firmly.

    Step 3: Make sure antenna is hooked to transmitter.

    Step 4: Be sure you didn't disconnect the antenna when checking the transmitter.

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    1. Re:Plan for success by BabyDave · · Score: 4, Funny

      Step 5: Realise that you attached the antenna the wrong way around ... oh wait, that's NASA :)

    2. Re:Plan for success by xsupergr0verx · · Score: 2, Funny

      No, that's the mistake of putting a 3 yard antenna instead of a 3 meter antenna.

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  6. They must speak a different language over there by RealAlaskan · · Score: 3, Funny
    They must speak a different language over there: it will have ``deadbeat airbags'', and though they call it a beagle, it doesn't have short legs or long ears. Well, the last one was really a dog, so maybe that fits.

    It's almost as if they don't speak english.

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  7. English to Metric? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Let's hope they do a better job than JPL...

    How do you convert slugs to metric anyway?

    Should you avoid putting salt on its tail?

  8. Colin Pillinger by Timesprout · · Score: 3, Funny

    Points to mars

    Fetch Beagle2 boy, good boy Beagle3, fetch.

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  9. Evidence of Learning from Mistakes by Doesn't_Comment_Code · · Score: 1, Funny

    You'll notice that the Beagle 3 does NOT have the auto-triggered cloaking device equipped on the last version of the rover.

    This is estimated to save billions of dollars of lost operations budget and tylenol.

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  10. Re:For those of you wondering what happened to by AndroidCat · · Score: 2, Funny

    I figured it was Captain Archer's dog on Enterprise.

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  11. Plan details involve... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...sending a lander to intercept one of the mars rovers, breaking off the NASA antennas, installing a proper British antenna, and placing a Beagle 3 plaque on it.

  12. Things we learned: by sxltrex · · Score: 4, Funny

    Don't hit the ground so hard.

    1. Re:Things we learned: by vsprintf · · Score: 2, Funny

      Don't hit the ground so hard.

      And the count shall be three and no more before pulling the holy ripcord. It shall not be four, nor five, nor six, nor include fractions, but three. Three is the count. (Apologies to Monty Python. :)

  13. Mass Vs Weight by Kurayamino-X · · Score: 3, Funny

    "would have a mass at entry into the Martian atmosphere of about 131kg"
    BAD science reporter! BAD! no treat for you.

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