[anonymous_user]

Do the PeTArds know we shot a poor, innocent beagle into outer space?

[longshadow]

ping

[tet68]

This really IS awesome!
What a Christmas present.
Leave it to a beagle to sniff out the good stuff.
Waiting and watching.
fingers crossed.

[hosepipe]

[ "The question that is uppermost in my mind is, 'Are we alone in the Universe?' ]

Somebody has to be FIRST! Whos to say that is'nt us..- Carl Sagan..

[MHGinTN]

Nice choice for the name ... no flames please, creationists. And I agree with C.Sagan ... it is more likely our generation is first, without others being tens-of-thousands of years ahead of us. But Life is likey a common thing throughout the universe, if the conditions are right and for a long enough period of diversification.

[gcruse]

The Viking landers were the real Valkyries. What we send now doesn't seem any more advanced than what we did thirty years ago. We should have had a colony there by now.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

"For 5 000 years, people have looked at Mars and wondered if there is life there, and it falls to this generation to do it," said Beagle 2's lead scientist, Colin Pillinger, a professor at Britain's Open University.

Must be a time lord.

[Analyzing Inconsistencies]

Couldn't we get SOOOO much more accomplished regarding Mars (etcetera) if only government space agencies such as NASA simply offered competitive prizes like the one Charles Lindberg won for crossing the Atlantic? NASA's allowed to propose competitive prizes but unlike DARPA, NASA conveniently won't jeopardize its bureaucrats' and pet contractors' sinecures (I mean "jobs") by offering them. For more on this statist scandal from the space program which has a larger budget than all the rest of the world's civilian space agencies COMBINED:

http://www.SpaceProjects.com/prizes