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Title: I travelled 55 Million Kilometres then fell down a hole
Post by: karajorma on December 29, 2003, 07:03:12 am

Scientists are saying that Beagle 2 may have ended up in a crater about a km wide. They say it would be really bad luck but we all know how Sod's law works.

Click me (http://spaceflightnow.com/mars/marsexpress/031229crater.html)

Title: I travelled 55 Million Kilometres then fell down a hole
Post by: Styxx on December 29, 2003, 07:36:31 am

Note to self: Check pictures of landing site for huge craters before sending multi-million-dollars probe in.

Title: I travelled 55 Million Kilometres then fell down a hole
Post by: karajorma on December 29, 2003, 08:44:48 am

:) Apparently they claim that they had no chance of detecting craters that small :D

Title: I travelled 55 Million Kilometres then fell down a hole
Post by: Odyssey on December 29, 2003, 08:53:04 am

[color=cc9900]They had a chance, but only if they were looking, and they didn't really know where to look until it was too late ^_^[/color]

Title: I travelled 55 Million Kilometres then fell down a hole
Post by: diamondgeezer on December 29, 2003, 11:06:15 am

Ouch.

Having sucked in the budget from the Rosetta program, this thing better bloody work.

Title: I travelled 55 Million Kilometres then fell down a hole
Post by: Krackers87 on December 29, 2003, 03:32:38 pm

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Originally posted by Styxx
Note to self: Check pictures of landing site for huge craters before sending multi-million-dollars probe in.

Ok, you try landing a damn space probe.

Title: I travelled 55 Million Kilometres then fell down a hole
Post by: mikhael on December 29, 2003, 03:45:52 pm

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Originally posted by diamondgeezer
Ouch.

Having sucked in the budget from the Rosetta program, this thing better bloody work.

Rosetta Program?

Title: I travelled 55 Million Kilometres then fell down a hole
Post by: karajorma on December 29, 2003, 03:53:15 pm

I assume he means this (http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0305/18rosetta/)

Title: I travelled 55 Million Kilometres then fell down a hole
Post by: diamondgeezer on December 29, 2003, 04:45:49 pm

That's the bunny

Title: I travelled 55 Million Kilometres then fell down a hole
Post by: Beowulf on December 29, 2003, 09:58:02 pm

Time to send the humans, like we always should have. :rolleyes:

Honestly, it would only cost 10 billion to send a four man team to mars for two years. That includes extra provisions and the like. 10 Billion. That's it. NASA chews through that in a year. :mad:

Title: I travelled 55 Million Kilometres then fell down a hole
Post by: Stryke 9 on December 29, 2003, 10:02:10 pm

Four men, tight quarters, no women, two years.


The poor, poor bastards.



Dunno where you're getting your figures, though. It costs ten billion for a congressman to take a good, long **** here, I can't imagine a successful initial Mars mission costing anything less than twice that.

Maybe if the Russians did it, now, ten billion might be accurate, maybe even highish.

Title: I travelled 55 Million Kilometres then fell down a hole
Post by: Beowulf on December 29, 2003, 10:03:33 pm

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Originally posted by Stryke 9
Four men, tight quarters, no women, two years.


The poor, poor bastards.

Who said no women? ;7

Edit: On second thought, two men, two women, tight quarters, [three] years (total)....

Those poor, poor bastards. :shaking:

Title: I travelled 55 Million Kilometres then fell down a hole
Post by: Beowulf on December 29, 2003, 10:06:10 pm

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Originally posted by Stryke 9
Four men, tight quarters, no women, two years.


The poor, poor bastards.



Dunno where you're getting your figures, though. It costs ten billion for a congressman to take a good, long **** here, I can't imagine a successful initial Mars mission costing anything less than twice that.

Maybe if the Russians did it, now, ten billion might be accurate, maybe even highish.

Mars Direct. Mars Direct. Mars Direct. Google.

Title: I travelled 55 Million Kilometres then fell down a hole
Post by: Styxx on December 30, 2003, 10:03:32 am

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Originally posted by Krackers87
Ok, you try landing a damn space probe.

Already did it. Many many times.

Title: I travelled 55 Million Kilometres then fell down a hole
Post by: Gloriano on December 30, 2003, 10:24:03 am

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Originally posted by Styxx


Already did it. Many many times.

i been running around Jupiter gas



what happened to beagle2 is bad luck

Title: I travelled 55 Million Kilometres then fell down a hole
Post by: Lynx on December 30, 2003, 10:27:40 am

Someone should tell Bush that al-Quaeda supporting martians blew up Beagle2 and that there's oil on Mars. Let's see what happens then.:D

Title: I travelled 55 Million Kilometres then fell down a hole
Post by: Bobboau on December 30, 2003, 10:39:16 am

wow, that realy... came out of nowere

Title: I travelled 55 Million Kilometres then fell down a hole
Post by: diamondgeezer on December 30, 2003, 11:11:13 am

Indeed. What an odd thing for a fellow to say.

Title: I travelled 55 Million Kilometres then fell down a hole
Post by: Nuclear1 on December 30, 2003, 03:12:40 pm

:wtf:

Title: I travelled 55 Million Kilometres then fell down a hole
Post by: Bobboau on December 30, 2003, 09:52:41 pm

anyway this is not a thread for bashing Bush, it's a thread for bashing the european space agency's landing of a probe that is worth more than me in a hole thus negateing it.

/*laughs at Colin Pillinger*/

Title: I travelled 55 Million Kilometres then fell down a hole
Post by: Odyssey on December 30, 2003, 10:03:36 pm

[color=cc9900]I don't really see the point of the whole bouncy-airbags thing anyway.[/color]

Title: I travelled 55 Million Kilometres then fell down a hole
Post by: karajorma on December 31, 2003, 02:44:54 am

Cheaper than retro rockets IIRC

Title: I travelled 55 Million Kilometres then fell down a hole
Post by: Ace on December 31, 2003, 03:47:13 am

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Originally posted by Lynx
Someone should tell Bush that al-Quaeda supporting martians blew up Beagle2 and that there's oil on Mars. Let's see what happens then.:D

Actually, believe it or not but there is a theory about petrochemicals being able to be formed during the early formation of the solar system.

If this is true, then that means there could be oil deposits in the crusts of other rocky planets such as Mercury, Venus, Mars, as well as the Moon.

Title: I travelled 55 Million Kilometres then fell down a hole
Post by: 01010 on December 31, 2003, 04:26:21 am

Quick, to the moon!