[Riley]

It seems that the only way to get a beagle to shut up is to send it to Mars.

Sorry to hear it.

[vikingchick]

I hope they hear from the Beagle very soon. I mean, this thing is on MARS for goodness sakes. MARS. That's really far away. [/understatement off] I can't believe it. It's wonderful.

[Fledermaus]

Me thinks it crashed and went BOOM.

Too bad.

[Prime Choice]

Doesn't look good for Beagle. Sad to say that this dog isn't going to hunt. If they haven't heard from it by now, I doubt they ever will. : (

[Viking2002]

What is it with all of these pocket-protector stumblebums that they can't get a damned lander on the ground there anymore? Jeez, they used to be able to phone that sort of thing in.

[Smokin' Joe]

Yep, the local LGM Union has another source of off-planet parts.....

[randog]

If Beagle 2 is alive it will transmit at a frequency of 401.56 Mhz.

"401.56 Mhz?! I thought you said design it for 401.56 Khz!!"

[Dont Mention the War]

If Beagle 2 is alive it will transmit at a frequency of 401.56 Mhz.

Well, I'll turn on my scanner. If I hear anything, I'll give them a call.

[My Dog Likes Me]

Well maybe the "Beatles Long Silence" is because they broke up years ago and two of them died!

I wish the BBC would check their facts!

[texasflower]

This is such a shame.

[FlameThrower]

How many of these disappearing probes do we need before we admit it? There are Martians down there, and they don't like these things getting too close.

[searchandrecovery]

It's a little known fact that many Beagle parts came from a junkyard MG Midget.

[hoagy62]

Generally, if they haven't heard from it by now, they're not going to ever hear from it.

Why is it that so many of our craft going to Mars have gone silent recently? (No, I'm not having a "tinfoil hat moment".)

[Analyzing Inconsistencies]

So much would be possible if only we could get beyond the monopolistic corruption that still pervades our bureaucratic governments’ space programs. Related thread:
Did Astrium, an ESA-anointed monopolistic contractor, actually WANT its lean-budgeted Beagle 2 Mars mission to fail in order to secure greater funding for subsequent interplanetary missions funded by increasingly stimulated European taxpayers? Why won’t ESA and NASA simply offer COMPETITIVE PRIZES?

[Jonah Hex]

It's time for the British to put Professor Quatermass on the job!

[Teacher317]

I didn't mean to fail! I'm sorry!

[greenwolf]

The name obviously jinxed the thing.

[Daryl L.Hunter]

An awful lot of Mars missions seem jinxed. You don't suppose there is something up there defending something do you?

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Daryl L. Hunter - Editor

[Zechariah11]

Wasn't Darwin's ship called The Beagle?

[vladog]

I didn't even know that Beagles could use a phone card, much less a phone. I thought they just barked and chased rabbits and other critters.