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ESA Aiming for Martian Probe in 2011
allanj writes "According to the BBC, the ESA is set to send a robotic probe to Mars around 2011. They apparently want to return samples of Martian soil with the probe - cool idea if it works better than Beagle 2 did..." From the article: "They still require a great deal of further detail and the agency's member states will also have to sign off the mission. Ministers will have their say when the Esa Council meets in December."
FFS - the slashdot editors can't win either way.
Either they ignore us and post articles, or they remove them because they are blatently redundant.
Give them a break.
liqbase
I am suprised they deleted the story and all the comments. That kinda sucks.
Rosco: "If brains were gunpowder, Enos couldn't blow his nose."
Do subscribers REALLY want to waste however many page impressions reading page after page of "dupe - teh stupid editors are da b0mb"
Better to get rid of a worthless article than moan about it.
liqbase
Is the probe supposed to knock chunks out of Mars towards earth? I like better the idea of sending probes with better analytical software/hardware to Mars. Cheaper anyhoo
Mens et Manus
How does it waste any more pages? If a dupe appears, we see it, we email the editors, and they take it down. No page views wasted.
Subscribers that report dupes are trying to help the editors do their jobs (the ones they get paid for).
And, I'll say it again, Slashdot should not EVER delete a story with comments because it deletes the comments, too. That goes against Slashdot's supposed policy outlined by CmdrTaco.
I'd hardly call a bunch of scorpions a "horrible virus." Besides, I hear that particular scientist whose prone to thinking of himself as god has been taken to the Stargate program. Apparently the ga'oulds didn't respect O'Neill.
This is way off-topic, but I like buring karma for a good cause.
:)
This bonch is a weird guy. Not entirely sure I even like him. However, I've seen him getting mod attacked for no legitimate reason. Some insightful posts that I may disagree with are getting modded troll.
I love free speech. I don't mind if someone disagrees with me. I don't mind if someone says things that I find totally wrong. Yet, obviously there is at least one person with mod points who has taken it on themselves to mod bonch into oblivion. You don't have to take my word for it.... take a look at the guy's posting history. Is he strange? Probably. Is he a troll? Definitely not.
What to do about it? If you are in M2 land, take your responsiblity seriously. If you seee a troll, and it isn't a clear troll, M2 the moderator down. If you have any mod points, help him to keep his head above water till the mods responsible get corrected by the system. The system only works when a majority of the people are fair, and not just out to push an agenda.
And keep an eye on me... I have a feeling that I will be getting followed a while too
See my journal for slashdot ID's by year. Mine created in 2005. http://slashdot.org/journal/289875/slashdot-ids-by-year
Zonk, Notifying you of story duplication doesn't mean, "DELETE THIS STORY ASAP!", but rather, "in the future, spend a few minutes performing a search to see if the topic has already been discussed; particularly if it's within the previous [few] months".
The bottom line is: You are not Jimmy Olsen and you shouldn't worry about getting the "scoop" on someone else on the list. The ten minutes you take to back up your story will make you look a little more thorough if|when it's posted versus what you're dealing with now.
Does this make things a bit clearer?