/me goes to neighbour's house with my shotgun, i knock on neighbours door and tell him to give me the keys to his car, he asks 'why?', i reply 'well, i'm not entirely sure that it's road-worthy, and i don't want you crashing into my house, so give me your keys and i'll take it for a ride, now, you're going to give me the keys right? otherwise it's obvious you have something to hide, i guess your car isn't road worthy, omg you know its dangerous and want it to crash into my house, you son of a bitch! *bang*..0.7 seconds..*bang*
It was the Mars Express inability to hold little more than 60kg that meant Beagle2 had to meet incredibly tough design rules to even get it on Mars Express.
BBC: "The main constraint was mass - the mothership, Mars Express, could spare only 60 kg for its interplanetary passenger.
That meant a compromise between scientific kit and landing gear. Retro-rockets were not an option. Nor was a transmitter that could have sent radio signals to Earth to give feedback on the landing.
Spirit had both of these, lending high drama to its plunge through the Martian atmosphere. "
Maybe more of an overall failure of ESA's Mars Express than Beagle2's build failure?
It was the Mars Express inability to hold little more than 60kg that meant Beagle2 had to meet incredibly tough design rules to even get it on Mars Express.
BBC: "The main constraint was mass - the mothership, Mars Express, could spare only 60 kg for its interplanetary passenger.
That meant a compromise between scientific kit and landing gear. Retro-rockets were not an option. Nor was a transmitter that could have sent radio signals to Earth to give feedback on the landing.
Spirit had both of these, lending high drama to its plunge through the Martian atmosphere. "
when you plan to drop a lump of metal from the sky on another planet you plan for the possibility of it landing upside down, most likely it's not responding because it is in a crater.
If you look at the high definition photo, at the bottom-right is one of the dark rocks scientists have said may contain fossils, if you look at it you can see heavy indentations into it, this they believe, may be a fossil.
Also, up and to the right you'll see a smooth area, this is possibly from a hit millions of years ago, anyway, it's 'special' because it contains very finely ground rock, and if you look around the majority of the photo this does not exist, so it is believed this hole from a asteroid hit or whatnot has acted as a barrier and protected finer particules which NASA hope to scoop up and analyse.
yeah, i hate it when drug dealers who sell drugs to kids get locked up, i mean, wtf! they're helping the economy by buying from abroad and selling it off in the US, as the middle man he takes a lot of the profit as well as delivering a quality product into the US.
by the UK goverment that they might "look-in" to open source software themselves simply because they know it scares Microsoft, like Germany, who got massive discounts.
A goverment just has to say it's thinking about it to get Microsoft scared and giving out vouchers left right and centre.
Expect to see alot more/. stories on goverments considering OSS and then stories a few months later about them receiving massive discounts.
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There are BILLIONS of suns out there, BILLIONS if not TRILLIONS of planets around those suns, are you seriously saying that there is zero chance that just one of those planets will meet the variables that this earth did?
I don't know where you got this "there are so many zeros on the end..." from, it is pretty moronic to think that we are the only life in existance, just about every professor who's lectures i've attended have said the possibility of life is so great that it couldn't be calculated, there could be trillions upon trillions of life forms out there, there isn't even a value to put on it.
Point is, do you really think that we could really be the only life in existance? If so, you obviously have no idea of what we know is out there already, and not even the greatest minds can comprehend what's out there that we don't and possible won't ever know about.
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the chances are simply too great for other life to _not_ exist somewhere.
You say how much better truly open source is, then you suggest getting Windows XP.
Xandros looks great, most people don't care that it contains closed source or not, what it comes down to is what OS is best for you, Xandros is great, combining the great applications of Windows (and therefore being great to slip into businesses) as well as Windows' ease of use, that combined with the 'power' of Linux.
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/me goes to neighbour's house with my shotgun, i knock on neighbours door and tell him to give me the keys to his car, he asks 'why?', i reply 'well, i'm not entirely sure that it's road-worthy, and i don't want you crashing into my house, so give me your keys and i'll take it for a ride, now, you're going to give me the keys right? otherwise it's obvious you have something to hide, i guess your car isn't road worthy, omg you know its dangerous and want it to crash into my house, you son of a bitch! *bang*..0.7 seconds..*bang*
ironic, seeing as its probably filled with spyware if its from kazaa, and they'd sell to the highest bidder.
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it was always an ESA mission . . .
This was planned, if you see my other post which explains why this was planned, but left out because of design limitations of the Mars Express.
It was the Mars Express inability to hold little more than 60kg that meant Beagle2 had to meet incredibly tough design rules to even get it on Mars Express.
BBC:
"The main constraint was mass - the mothership, Mars Express, could spare only 60 kg for its interplanetary passenger.
That meant a compromise between scientific kit and landing gear. Retro-rockets were not an option. Nor was a transmitter that could have sent radio signals to Earth to give feedback on the landing.
Spirit had both of these, lending high drama to its plunge through the Martian atmosphere. "
Maybe more of an overall failure of ESA's Mars Express than Beagle2's build failure?
It was the Mars Express inability to hold little more than 60kg that meant Beagle2 had to meet incredibly tough design rules to even get it on Mars Express.
BBC:
"The main constraint was mass - the mothership, Mars Express, could spare only 60 kg for its interplanetary passenger.
That meant a compromise between scientific kit and landing gear. Retro-rockets were not an option. Nor was a transmitter that could have sent radio signals to Earth to give feedback on the landing.
Spirit had both of these, lending high drama to its plunge through the Martian atmosphere. "
Beagle2 is about the size of a bicycle wheel, it weights 60kg. NASA's six-wheeled robot is the size of a golf buggy and weights about 8 times more.
Beagle was built at a cost of around 45m, whereas NASA spent 512m.
when you plan to drop a lump of metal from the sky on another planet you plan for the possibility of it landing upside down, most likely it's not responding because it is in a crater.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3376343.stm
i think it's hundreds of miles away, either way it's been said that it isn't close enough to go look for it.
High definition photos of Mars and now High definition radio? I do believe /. is spoiling us.
If you look at the high definition photo, at the bottom-right is one of the dark rocks scientists have said may contain fossils, if you look at it you can see heavy indentations into it, this they believe, may be a fossil.
Also, up and to the right you'll see a smooth area, this is possibly from a hit millions of years ago, anyway, it's 'special' because it contains very finely ground rock, and if you look around the majority of the photo this does not exist, so it is believed this hole from a asteroid hit or whatnot has acted as a barrier and protected finer particules which NASA hope to scoop up and analyse.
yeah, i hate it when drug dealers who sell drugs to kids get locked up, i mean, wtf! they're helping the economy by buying from abroad and selling it off in the US, as the middle man he takes a lot of the profit as well as delivering a quality product into the US.
Free the drug dealers!
an EU goverment is in existance is it...?
Not quite.
by the UK goverment that they might "look-in" to open source software themselves simply because they know it scares Microsoft, like Germany, who got massive discounts.
/. stories on goverments considering OSS and then stories a few months later about them receiving massive discounts.
A goverment just has to say it's thinking about it to get Microsoft scared and giving out vouchers left right and centre.
Expect to see alot more
There are BILLIONS of suns out there, BILLIONS if not TRILLIONS of planets around those suns, are you seriously saying that there is zero chance that just one of those planets will meet the variables that this earth did?
I don't know where you got this "there are so many zeros on the end..." from, it is pretty moronic to think that we are the only life in existance, just about every professor who's lectures i've attended have said the possibility of life is so great that it couldn't be calculated, there could be trillions upon trillions of life forms out there, there isn't even a value to put on it.
Point is, do you really think that we could really be the only life in existance? If so, you obviously have no idea of what we know is out there already, and not even the greatest minds can comprehend what's out there that we don't and possible won't ever know about.
the chances are simply too great for other life to _not_ exist somewhere.
You say how much better truly open source is, then you suggest getting Windows XP. Xandros looks great, most people don't care that it contains closed source or not, what it comes down to is what OS is best for you, Xandros is great, combining the great applications of Windows (and therefore being great to slip into businesses) as well as Windows' ease of use, that combined with the 'power' of Linux.
Why should I pay for something at an extraordinary $89 when I don't know how good it even is?
I think i`ll burn a copy from kazaa, and try it out first, THEN i'll consider paying for the next version.
that NASA haven't set up their site DNS properly, if you go to http://nasa.gov it doesn't work, but http://www.nasa.gov does, strange.
BBC's article on the story
you can see the curvature of the planet so easily? it's as if mars is only a couple dozen miles in width.
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