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brassneck
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Report ebulGery October 19, 2016 10:14 PM BST
It has cost a lot of money an gone a long way.....for no result.Sad

We lost Beagle 2 I remember.

Are we sure there are no Martians, are they knocking our landers out of the Martian sky as they attempt to land?
Report brassneck October 19, 2016 10:20 PM BST
they are changing their tune now,they are saying they did not expect for it to make contact on landing.Laugh
Report akabula October 19, 2016 10:29 PM BST
Laugh Aye that was a cracker.
Report brassneck October 19, 2016 10:38 PM BST
the latest is that they intend to send a Range Rover to mars in the year 2020 and this was a small test .
they did not say how much the small test that got lost has cost themLaugh
but they are still hopeful of contact even though they never expected contact with earth ,and they have a mother ship orbiting Mars and the probe may contact it.Grin
Report tictacman1 October 19, 2016 11:07 PM BST
Burnt to a Crisp.........Dr.Jango said it was "75 per cent success"
Report ebulGery October 19, 2016 11:26 PM BST
Laugh

Latest flash it has touched down?

If this was a small test for a larger 2020 rover, it has failedSad

tbf this is not easy, but I think we need better monitoring and observation of these rovers as they land.
Report tictacman1 October 19, 2016 11:48 PM BST
NASA has suggested that SpaceX is spending around $300 million on its Red Dragon Mars lander mission, according to Space News.

Awful lot of mars bars to lose
Report brassneck October 19, 2016 11:49 PM BST
Laugh
Report ebulGery October 19, 2016 11:57 PM BST
It would be vastly more expensive to send a manned mission to Mars to do this.

Although the advantage of humans aboard, is they may have been able to fix what had gone wrong.

Much harder to do this with robotic computer control. Any number of things could have failed.

Even though this is cheaper, if it fails it is a complete waste.

I hope they something out of this mission.
Report brassneck October 20, 2016 12:06 AM BST
its not too long ago that they smashed the rosetta probe into a comet because it went to sleep.
And they also have a few rovers on mars to have broken down that cost millions.
And I think there is another probe on its way to the sun that will send back pictures before it crashes into it.
why don't they just turn hubble towards it and take a few close up photo's and save the millions.
Report akabula October 20, 2016 12:09 AM BST
Had more probes than Donald. Wink
Report ebulGery October 20, 2016 12:09 AM BST
Laugh
Report brassneck October 20, 2016 12:17 AM BST
the last debate is on tonight.i wonder how much it is to get a ring side seat.
I think its great TV.Trump's a header.its made it interesting ,you never know what he might say.Laugh
Report brassneck October 20, 2016 12:19 AM BST
what odds on him waving the finger up and down when he's talking.LaughLaughLaugh
Report akabula October 20, 2016 12:25 AM BST
As long as it's just his finger he'll be okay.
Report ebulGery October 20, 2016 1:06 AM BST
Laugh
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