you mean this picture?


"look, it's a giant fly!" "no silly its a Lego Technic that's gone wrong" "it's me Christmas wrapping paper, i was going to use that next year!"

how do you even know what it is from that picture? could be anything. It might even be the leftovers of Beagle.

Hmm.. I hope this Mars mission will be succesfull. Face it, the whole Beagle project failed but they won't admit it yet. All those goverment money put into it just vanished the moment the Beagle landed/chrashed.

That reminds me of a quote (slightly changed):

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oh well that all well and good then. Clearly worth the billions it cost to get there.

bull ****. its a bloody great waste of money. if Beagle is still alive, it changes nothing. its still throwing remote control cars into space to take pictures of rocks. YAY, hold the fooking phone, thats worth the stupid amount of money we put on it. Heres a braindead idea, why not GO THERE YOU ARSEHOLES? now THAT would be woth it. Theres nothing a robot can do that a guy....me, couldnt do in its stead. I'm sick of probes going, crashing, or sending back asswipe pictures of a desert. I mean what new things are we gonna find out anyway? the probes are so bloody small they only really take a soil sample about an inch below the surface, which is FANTASTIC and then there are some that go to search for life or signs of life.

Either way, if it found a microbe or fossil, it still makes no difference to the man on the street, just that i'll keep saying "SEND ME TO MARS BOZOS!".

International space station my arse, the moneys being channeled into all the wrong rivers. We should be building a space shipyard, a docking station to send our boys off to mars so they can start building a space station in orbit over there, with powered relay stations along the way so communication is nigh instantanious. Then, from the mars station we can set down on big red and sort this hoo harr out once and for all. were still pussy footing around the issue here because no one, bar me, has the balls to go in space for 2 years to goto mars.


"Something wicked this way comes"

if you went to Mars just think how long it would take you to post on TLR. there'd be 90 replies before you got yours in and no-one would have a clue what you were on about. Besides your webcam pix would be really boring, not much going on in the Arcon space-podule.

btw I know what happened to Beagle. the Martians nicked it. They wanted Sky but Rediffusion wouldn't come out that far.

I think the person who has been selling real estate on the moon and Mars might have some actionable lawsuit against NASA for trespassing with their rover.

Sir S

well what we'll do is, we'll get my X-Plane and go to mars in that

yay! Arcon's space fighter (designed by a genius, i wonder who that could be? ) appears in our skies once again!

Before you walk, you must learn to crawl. Sheeesh. You boys are real downers.
Oh well, I am suitably insulated against your bad vibrations by the big pond between us so I'll just keep to myself on this. I suppose if there were a Union Jack on the Rover you'd still decry the tremendous waste of money that otherwise would have been available for the dole.

well it must have been expensive because in my picture the thing covers almost the entire surface of the planet!

@Archie, Before you take off to Mars,.... I would suggest you first try to calculate the solar Orbital Position of mars at the moment....

The modifications is something we will do for you, because as to the latest calculations the plane must be able to cover a speed of at minimal 60 Km/sec.
if you want to get to mars that is. we will need 11 Km/sec just to reach the outer exosphere and escape Terra's Gravitational pull.

as for the calculations, I do not know where Mars is now but Me guts is saying that its the opposite position of our earth

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you mean up? as opposed to down? the earths direction is a circle, so where does that leave mars?

AAAANYway:
@Taw: yeah, designed be ME!
@Loc: Its gonna go wicked fast, just you wait.
@Indy: are you talking about the car company or a lunar rover style rover? cause last time i checked, the car company DID have a Union Jack on it:

if your talking about the lunar rover. Well its not about WHO sends a peice of tin foil to mars, its that were even sending them out there in the first place. Like i said, if Beagle was found alive and well, it would still be a pile of bollocks because it should be man up there, not crap robots that cant take a fall.


"Something wicked this way comes"

Edited by - Arcon on 1/4/2004 2:32:59 PM

Edit: I'm a bit behind the times. What have they actually discovered on Mars? Apart from those ancient oceans that is?

Sorry Taw, I didn't want to startup a whole flame war by being skeptical and controversial, so I altered my post accordingly.

Note: If anyone wants to know, my previous post stated that I felt that we hadn't really gained much by exploring Mars, and that it seemed a bit odd considering the amount of landings. I think I'll bail out of this thread now before I embarrass myself further.

Esquilax

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Edited by - esquilax on 1/4/2004 3:19:34 PM