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Posted by Dopey on Dec-27-2003 18:06:

What happened to the Beagle???

Anyone wanna venture a guess to what happened to the Beagle II Mars landing thingy?? Maybe it flipped on its top and the antenna cant open? I duno. Sucks that they may have completely wasted 350 million bucks though.

Posted by TranceGiant on Dec-27-2003 18:36:

Re: What happened to the Beagle???

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Originally posted by Dopey
Anyone wanna venture a guess to what happened to the Beagle II Mars landing thingy?? Maybe it flipped on its top and the antenna cant open? I duno. Sucks that they may have completely wasted 350 million bucks though.

Aliens poured some tabasco on it and ate it.

Posted by MrSquirrel on Dec-27-2003 20:45:

They could have pulled a JPL and used english units instead of metric to do one of their trajectory calculations, thus smashing into the surface instesad of landing properly.

I would venture to guess that a computer malfunctioned due to some outside factor, possibly the excess solar radiation from the sunspot and solar flare activity recently or the landing could have have damagfed something if it was too rough.

MrS

Posted by squirrelly on Dec-27-2003 20:48:

Re: Re: What happened to the Beagle???

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Originally posted by TranceGiant
Aliens poured some tabasco on it and ate it.

Posted by NYCTrancefan on Dec-27-2003 23:12:

Euros welcome to the world of space exploration, if you research carefully you will find that the Russians with all their space history has managed one successful landing on Mars, that didn't last long though, they eventually lost contact with the rover. The rest of their attempts are still floating somewhere in the galaxy. The U.S managed to get three rovers on Mars and have two more heading there as we speak, not to mention that they have had some expensive failed attempts too. So the Europeans see how costly the game of space exploration can be, are they ready to pay to play, pun intended. They do have the Mars observer circling in the Mars orbit which has been successful so far, but as for the Beagle its somewhere out there maybe never to be heard from again, maybe it will.

Posted by Yoepus on Dec-28-2003 02:15:

What do you mean "what happened?".... didn't the Europeans make it?

Posted by PHALPAX on Dec-28-2003 03:15:

I would be frightened if some people here were surprised that the Euro probe didn't make it. Speaking of such things, and for some strange reason, I think that the Euro Space program is going follow the same path the Japanese program did.

Posted by DrUg_Tit0 on Dec-28-2003 13:04:

Well, explorations have always been more failure than success, although I didn't think the ratio was that bad as I realized a few days ago when I checked out the history of Mars missions. Bah, now I know why the chances for building new colonies in Europa Universlais were so slim.

Posted by Streakfury on Dec-28-2003 19:54:

It would've been class if it had made it. Certainly would've looked good for us Brits

Oh well, there's those Christmas lectures on TV tomorrow, and supposedly they're gonna answer questions and such live in the studio. We'll what they've got to say.

Posted by King_Mack on Dec-31-2003 05:11:

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Originally posted by MrSquirrel
They could have pulled a JPL and used english units instead of metric to do one of their trajectory calculations, thus smashing into the surface instesad of landing properly.

oh man, that was class. To think, they have a slew of Ph.D's on it and they make an elementary level physics mistake and screw up the units. I guess it happens to the best of us
Imagine how that group musta felt...lol

Posted by squirrelly on Dec-31-2003 07:25:

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Originally posted by Streakfury
It would've been class if it had made it. Certainly would've looked good for us Brits

Oh well, there's those Christmas lectures on TV tomorrow, and supposedly they're gonna answer questions and such live in the studio. We'll what they've got to say.

Did they ever answer it? Haven't peeked in here in a while! I feel so lost!