To: UnklGene
"If all had gone to plan...searing 1,700C temperatures...an explosive mortar...pilot parachute...main parachute...three giant gas bags...cushion the impact...literally bounced on to Mars...more than a dozen bounces...before finally coming to a halt...gas bags to split apart...the probe to drop the final metre to land directly on the planet's surface." Gee.
This is a plan?
3 posted on
12/26/2003 5:20:08 PM PST by
billorites
(freepo ergo sum)
To: billorites
This is a plan? The US did all the successfully in 1997 with Pathfinder. We will be doing it again twice in the next few weeks. Lessee how we do verses the Europeans.
4 posted on
12/26/2003 5:28:38 PM PST by
ElkGroveDan
(Fighting for Freedom and Having Fun)
To: billorites
gas bags to split apart This is the part that makes one wonder.
6 posted on
12/26/2003 5:38:34 PM PST by
RightWhale
(Close your tag lines)
To: billorites
three giant gas bags They sent Hillary Clinton, Barbara Boxer, and Nancy Pelosi to Mars? We could wish!!
12 posted on
12/26/2003 6:34:24 PM PST by
MarkeyD
(Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.)
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