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Beagle 2 Probe Spotted on Mars
evilduckie writes "According to this BBC article photos taken by the Mars Global Surveyor show the European Beagle 2 probe which was lost after it apparently crash-landed on Mars."
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i think i see waldo in that high quality image...
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I can see that news in a Charles Shultz comic strip
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I've seen less pixelated images of tits on network tv.
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Well - if the probe falls into a Canal then we'll know that it found previous life ...
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If it were closer to Cydonia, maybe we could pick up movement as the little guys take the spacecraft away and hide it in top secret Martian military bunkers.
I hope they don't have an equivalent Will Smith fighter pilot capable of flying our space ships over there. It'll make our invasion that much harder.
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let's face it. This is something that you would do, if a bit of alien technology came crashing down out of the skies.
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Wow, we can't find Bin Laden on Earth, but we can find Beagle 2 on Mars.
This is a funny world we live in...
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... it has probably been busy humping some poor martian's leg all this time.
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"Curse you, Red Baron!"
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Obviously, the secret world government would have hired someone else to write it.
Anyone know how it was to go about this? I assume that it may analyse soil samples, but what else from there?
Drop business cards as it went: "If you are a living Martian, or you know where evidence of past Martians may be found, please call 1-800-BEAGLE2."
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Why, that's too costly, even for NASA. They'll contract their Marshi-pino counterparts to pack up the pieces and ship them back to Earth.
Or, worse, the US & UK will advocate ignoring the Earth-based policies toward abandoned vesses and craft. Then, they'll tell the Martians (a la Columbus), "WE discovered YOU!"... There'll be mumbo jumbo about minutae in contracts and then it'll end with the Earthers saying, "Look, a DEAYUL's A DEAYUL!"..
Then, the Martians will promptly (and, rightly) zap our asses back to kingdom come...
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The robotic laboratory was designed to search Mars for signs of past or present life.
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Scientists are mortified to report that the Beagle 2 did indeed find life on Mars. Unfortunately, due to its poorly controlled re-entry it crashed into and killed all the Martian lifeforms
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And if it floats in that canal does that mean that probe is a witch?
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FTA: "Professor Pillinger claims the images show Beagle 2 came very close to being the first spacecraft to mount a concerted search for life on the Martian surface."
The problem is, the Martian that saw it coming down mistakenly thought it was an interplanetary baseball, and gave it a good crack with his bat about 4 feet from the ground. Then it broke apart, he said "Mzck froltk!"(1) and ran off.
(1) "Mzck froltk" translates from Martian native dialect into, roughly, "Oh shit"
"City hall" in German is "Rathaus" Kinda explains a few things......
Now if only they could find Willzyx.
The French built-in a white flag for good measure to surrender to any Martians they may encounter.
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Better High-Res images find a sign attached which reads "Up Yours Earthlings".
Accidentally skip "2 Probe" in the heading and we got news.
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The Beagle looked like a suitcase anyway, they should have had the outer casing built by samsonite. The we would get back nice pictures of Martians jumping up and down on it to now avail.
Was it spotted before, or just mottled like other beagles?
sigs, as if you care.
Isn't it fantastic what you can do with a few pixels and some imagination?
You just described my love life!
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I was just wondering... How the hell many craft have we crashed into that poor planet?
It's no wonder the Martians want to kill us all.