BEAGLE probe - absolute disgrace

[Easy 10]

Still no sign of the Beagle then. This from BBC Online:

Professor Southwood told BBC News Online: "The prospects took a dive today. Until today, I had a candle alight for Beagle, but today I feel it's guttering in the wind."

What a farce. How can you lose a bloody great space probe for crying out loud. You fly it up there, drop it on the planet, switch it on and off you go. The Americans did it, why can't we ?

It's not rocket science is it.

 

[BUTTERBALL]

No, it's not rocket science - it's resources. Our mission cost 10% of what theirs did.

 

[Yorkie]

At least it shuts the conspiracy theorists up

 

[Mr C]

Erm. No-one has yet mentioned a conspiracy theory.

Well, the Americans are due to land their own probe a week or two later, and ours goes "missing".

Attempts to contact Beagle using the American satellite fail. Well there's a fcuking surprise.

Their probe lands and takes lovely pictures which will be used on postcards,

Or am I just being cynical?

 

[JJ McClure]

That's what happens when you put Worzel Gummage in charge.

 

[Mr C]

Just read your post Yorkie

 

[JJ McClure]

The head of the Beagle space program before he gives up and heads back to do another time team dig.

 

[Albion Rob]

I think this conclusively proves that Mars does not in fact exist and has been created by the Americans as a way of, as stated above, selling more postcards.

We send a probe there and lose it, they send a probe there and send back amazing pictures. Hmmm. Wouldn't surprise me if the 'Mars pics' were just shots taken by their squaddies in the Iraqi desert.

I doubt the moon is real either.

 

[Marc]

Easy its a very small craft for starters, YOU try landing a craft on another planet

Its known as the Death Planet as many missions before have gone there and failed, my guess is the parachute screwed up and it crashed and burned or the airbags to soften the landing screwed up (they had problems with these in testing) and the thing just broke up.

and as said before, small budget!

 

[Hannibal smith]

Testing on Beagles in Laboratories is bad enough but sending 10 of them to Mars and losing them is a disgrace.

They should be ashamed of themselves.

 

[Willow]

Our mission cost 10% of what theirs did.

Oh well, only £45 million squiddley diddleys jettisoned into no mans space.

For that we could have bought;

450 Leon Knights
45,000 Gary Harts
18,000,000 pints of

 

[Easy 10]

Easy its a very small craft for starters, YOU try landing a craft on another planet

The whole post was basically contrived by me just so I could say "its not rocket science is it ?", when quite clearly, it IS rocket science (of a sort). Just another desperate, failed attempt by me to come across as witty and amusing.

*sigh*
(trudges back to drawing board)

 

[Raphael Meade]

It's not rocket science is it.

i thought it was!!

 

[Marc]

not one of your better posts Easy but I'll ignore it for the awards next meet up

 

[BUTTERBALL]

Oh well, only £45 million squiddley diddleys jettisoned into no mans space.

For that we could have bought;

450 Leon Knights
45,000 Gary Harts
18,000,000 pints of

....only 30 Bobby Zamoras though!

 

[MRRF 10]

i heard that they think (although they don't know) that it landed safely but the radio signalls aren't getting to the probe.

 

[Brixtaan]

We've humiliated ourselves again in front of the world.

 

[Pevenseagull]

.......another desperate, failed attempt by me to come across as witty and amusing.

*sigh*
(trudges back to drawing board)

it's not brain surgery


(I've not got the hang of this either)

 

[WhitleyDennis]

Well what do you expect from a space programme built and operated by Open University students?

 

[Safeway]

The whole post was basically contrived by me just so I could say "its not rocket science is it ?", when quite clearly, it IS rocket science (of a sort). Just another desperate, failed attempt by me to come across as witty and amusing.

*sigh*
(trudges back to drawing board)

If it's any consolation, I got it.

f***ing phillistines.