Beagle 2 Probe Spotted on Mars

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Beagle 2 Probe Spotted on Mars

Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday December 20, 2005 @02:28AM from the yeah-umm-sorrry-about-that-my-bad dept.

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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wait! by zxnos · 2005-12-20 02:29 · Score: 4, Funny

i think i see waldo in that high quality image...

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Uhhh by lucabrasi999 · 2005-12-20 02:30 · Score: 3, Funny

He thinks the craft may have hit the ground too hard
In other news, this evening, the Sun will set over the Western Horizon.
1. Re:Uhhh by aug24 · 2005-12-20 02:46 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  Possibly only fatal to the antenna too.
  
  The suggestion is that Beagle is sitting in a martian crater wondering 'where did all the humans go?'!
  
  J.
  
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Holy crap by Viper+Daimao · 2005-12-20 02:31 · Score: 5, Funny

I've seen less pixelated images of tits on network tv.

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1. Re:Holy crap by ClippyHater · 2005-12-20 06:15 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  Of course it's pixelated!
  
  That way, you don't see the cinderblocks under it and the missing tires.
  
  The Beagle didn't find life, life found the Beagle!
Location is not very good by ReformedExCon · 2005-12-20 02:33 · Score: 4, Funny

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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actually by Alien54 · 2005-12-20 02:38 · Score: 3, Funny

he wants to get some ID on the two martian teanagers who have it up on cider blocks, and who have been scavaging it for parts for their own geek project.
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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Incredible by PeteQC · 2005-12-20 02:40 · Score: 5, Funny

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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1. Re:Incredible by BushCheney08 · 2005-12-20 02:43 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  The solution is obvious. We need to start looking for Bin Laden on Mars!
  
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2. Re:Incredible by CreatureComfort · 2005-12-20 03:18 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  Your, alias, your post, and your sig... way too funny when taken together. Thanks for the belly laugh.
  
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If it's like other beagles I've known... by mark0 · 2005-12-20 02:44 · Score: 5, Funny

... it has probably been busy humping some poor martian's leg all this time.
In Memoriam Charles M. Schultz by alephnull42 · 2005-12-20 02:45 · Score: 5, Funny

Allow me be the first to say:

"Curse you, Red Baron!"

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1. Re:In Memoriam Charles M. Schultz by elrous0 · 2005-12-20 04:24 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  This assumes "Beagle 2" was rooted in the Peanuts metaphor.
  No, it only assumes a sense of humor.
  -Eric
  
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Re:How would it search? by Billosaur · 2005-12-20 02:57 · Score: 4, Funny

"The robotic laboratory was designed to search Mars for signs of past or present life."

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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Re:Why?? Send a shovel? by davidsyes · 2005-12-20 03:03 · Score: 3, Funny

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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Re:How would it search? by shawn(at)fsu · 2005-12-20 03:05 · Score: 3, Funny

And if it floats in that canal does that mean that probe is a witch?

Sorry I couldn't stop myself from typing this

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Willzyx & the Mexican Space Program by mosel-saar-ruwer · 2005-12-20 03:14 · Score: 3, Funny

Now if only they could find Willzyx.
Later On by the+eric+conspiracy · 2005-12-20 03:22 · Score: 3, Funny

Better High-Res images find a sign attached which reads "Up Yours Earthlings".
Re:Space Probe? They found something else. by Quiet_Desperation · 2005-12-20 04:14 · Score: 3, Funny

I always loved the Haiku that were all the rage a few years back.
Someone told me the rage goes all the way back to 19th century Japan, but I told them that's crazy talk.
Re:Great story by corbettw · 2005-12-20 05:51 · Score: 4, Funny

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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