Beagle 2 Scientists Say Craft Is Lost

The Guardian (UK) ^ | 2-11-2004 | Simon Jeffery

[cyborg]

Try try again as they say

[Dog Gone]

They've admitted what the rest of us concluded a long time ago. RIP Beagle.

[woofer]

That'll set the Euro technology industrial base back another ten years.

Wanna go interplanetary? Buy American. We get to AND report back from other worlds.

[RightWhale]

Best thing to do now is to send the next robot to look for the first. The most interesting things we are finding on Mars seem to be our own junk.

[cripplecreek]

All thats left is for someone to formulate a conspiracy theory implicating the USA.

[Noumenon]

Lucas, Prince of Intermittent Light, has struck again.

[Poohbah]

All thats left is for someone to formulate a conspiracy theory implicating the USA.

It's Bush's fault--he had the Air Force use its supersecret Area 51 technology to destroy Beagle 2 so that his oil buddies and Halliburton could make a profit.

[freedumb2003]

That'll set the Euro technology industrial base back another ten years.

Wanna go interplanetary? Buy American. We get to AND report back from other worlds.

As badly as I want to crow about this, I think it is ultimately very sad -- all of Mankind loses out when knowledge is lost due to this kind of accident.

Space travel is inherently dangerous and I really hope this loss (don't forget we almost lost touch with Spirit) makes it clear that the only machine that can properly explore the cosmos is a thinking, breathing Human Being.

[LibKill]

Shot down by the Barsoomian Defense Force.

R.I.P.

[Hot Tabasco]

Beagle 2 scientists say craft is lost

Never send a Beagle to do a retriever's work.........

[Dave Elias]

Lucas had bad press. Their contempory, Delco Remy was the undisputed king of unreliable electrics.

Prince of Darkness? Anyone around during the fifties would attest to the fact that British cars with their 12V Lucas headlights outshone almost any American car of the era.

[Dave Elias]

Yeah and how many spacecraft have we lost on Mars...Heaps.

[b4its2late]

Beagle 2 probably found Beagle 1 who happens to be a she beagle and they ran off into the martian sunset to make many more little beagles......

[gg188]

That'll set the Euro technology industrial base back another ten years

It set them back from 1975 to 1965.

[blam]

Beagle 1

[b4its2late]

Frisky old beagle.....

[poindexter]

Those chaps have a keen grasp of the obvious!

[JerseyHighlander]

Part of the national character to avoid the inevitable decline? Maybe the crash debris could be an official outpost of the Empire, allowing them to once again claim "the sun never sets on the British Empire?"

[Dog Gone]

The Beagle was going to do different experiments than either the Spirit or Opportunity, so it's unfortunate that this happened.

It was also pretty bold of the Europeans to attempt with their lack of experience, and surely the odds were against them in getting something this complex right on the first attempt.