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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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    John
    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 :)

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

    Points to mars

    Fetch Beagle2 boy, good boy Beagle3, fetch.

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    What truth?
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  8. 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.

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

    Don't hit the ground so hard.

  10. 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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