[John H K]

Hmmm, wonder if the idiots who did the gloating sack dance over the failure of Beagle 2 will be showing up......

[Viking2002]

They must've accidentally filmed a Martian, so they hit the auto-destruct button.....LOL

[Noumenon]

When in doubt, reboot.

[RightWhale]

who did the gloating

Probably. They are shameless.

[stuartcr]

It's probably the same Martians that destroyed everything else that was sent there, it just took longer for them to find this one.

[CasearianDaoist]

Any more info?

[Paradox]

As I recall, weren't they having temperatures in excess of predicted with the comm device? Perhaps the circuits burned out... This is really a shame...

[demlosers]

We got another one; three days left before Opportunity lands.

[KellyAdmirer]

We should send a mission to Mars just to clean up all the space junk we have sitting there.

[b4its2late]

This could be hugh!

[Diddle E. Squat]

Extended power failure at the 20th Century Fox soundstages?

[MediaMole]

Here's hoping the problem can be fixed.

[RandallFlagg]

You misspelled "Series"

[OXENinFLA]

Is NASA logged in?

[Empireoftheatom48]

Just before the end of the news conference they said they might have just heard from the spacecraft-but he said it was unconfirmed!

[P.O.E.]

This is the voice of the Mysterons. We know you can hear us, Earthmen.

[pabianice]

Space probes from Earth = Martian skeet

"Hey! Here comes another one! This one's mine! *BLAM!!*"

[bayourod]

Fell into a lake. I told them to make it amphibious.

[TexasGunLover]

Toward the end of Thursday's news briefing, Theisinger passed along word that managers had received a preliminary signal indicating Spirit was still functioning on the Martian surface. If confirmed, that would mean the rover had detected what it thought was a software fault

[apillar]

It's my understanding that contrary to CNN Alert message " CONTACT LOST WITH MARS ROVER". That they are getting reponses from the rover that it is receiving communications. It is just not following any of the commands sent to it. I would imagine that they have some sort off fallback position where the rover will perform a "soft reset" or shift into a safe mode if it is some sort of memory error.

[mikegi]

Hmmm, wonder if the idiots who did the gloating sack dance over the failure of Beagle 2 will be showing up......

Well, according to my sources, the Beagle_2 didn't crash. It survived the landing but lost comms. In fact, shortly before losing communication with us, the Spirit rover went over a ridge and caught the Beagle_2 "doing the nasty" with one of the Viking landers. Last comm from Spirit was "she's mine"...