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- aabernathy, on 07/12/2008, -6/+39Hopefully the next/last test finds oil.
- sockpuppets, on 07/12/2008, -0/+25Spontaneous picture combustion syndrome is a fear we all live with daily.
- Troy64, on 07/12/2008, -0/+24The damn martians have foiled another test.
- studdenfadden, on 07/12/2008, -0/+15I tried, but after 30 years of eating muffins cooked under a lightbulb I didn't have the strength to throw it that high.
- lennybird, on 07/12/2008, -1/+14We probably could have had a real team on Mars by now if that was Nasa's budget.
- twiztidsinz, on 07/12/2008, -0/+12I nominate this for the Most Retarded Comment of the Year award.
- koldmilk, on 07/12/2008, -1/+13sucks for the guys who worked for years to get this thing to mars... its like painting a picture only to have it burn down the moment you finish.
- jerematic, on 07/12/2008, -1/+11I guarantee NASA's budget would be increased ten-fold if oil was found on Mars. We'd be there in under two years, and probably end up in a war with Russia or some other country that tried to claim it.
- Newsdude, on 07/12/2008, -8/+17Seriously, that really Suks!
- ThetaDot, on 07/12/2008, -0/+8"directive"
- explnx, on 04/27/2009, -0/+7Well obviously there is carbon in some form somewhere on the planet, it is the fourth most common element in the universe. The question is whether it is in a form that is unlikely to occur without life.
- inactive, on 07/12/2008, -1/+8For twice what we spent on this one we could probably have had one that was more likely to work.
- jerematic, on 07/12/2008, -1/+7Did you hurl it thru space on a precise trajectory to enter the Martian atmosphere without burning up on entry as well?
- explnx, on 04/27/2009, -1/+6Is this some kind of pun?
- ToadLeg, on 07/12/2008, -0/+5From
"Oh, there's a short circuit so we won't be able to do all our bake tests"
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"Oh, there's a short circuit so the oxygen supply of your $500 billion spacecraft will be gone in 3 days" - UserNull, on 07/12/2008, -0/+5Where's Valentine? If he grokked enough he could fix it.
- Scaryclouds, on 07/12/2008, -0/+5All rovers come equipped with American flags to be planted on Mars in such an event. It's called Operation Dibs.
- Mononuclear, on 07/12/2008, -1/+6they aren't looking for carbon dioxide they are looking for organic things like oil etc. As you learn in O-chem organic stuff has carbon.
- davenaff, on 07/12/2008, -0/+5The 8 ovens aboard the lander are the only sensors capable of detecting carbon (independent of carbon dioxide).
3 Bake tests are needed to classify this portion of the mission as 'full mission success' - they've already had 1 test which classified the mission as 'minimum mission success'. - apextek, on 07/12/2008, -0/+4$420 million easy bake oven
- studdenfadden, on 07/12/2008, -2/+6Bah, when I was a kid I got an eazy-bake oven, it cost about $20.00, it still works 30 years later.
- terminal157, on 07/12/2008, -0/+4Wow are you cynical.
- spanner, on 07/13/2008, -1/+4OBAMA VOWS TO RETURN ALL MARS LANDERS TO EARTH.
Following the news of the failed mars lander experiment Barak Obama has declared that when he is president he will return all martian landers to earth at the earliest opportunity. "That lander should never have left Earth, its not fair to put it through such pressure and stress, and now we have the opportunity to start afresh we should return it and commence dialogue with mars instead."
The inhabitants of Mars were unable to be contacted for comment.
McCain, upon hearing the news vowed to have Martian landers on Mars for 1000 years declaring that "an uninhabited mars is a threat to our nation and to our oil. If the martian lander fails I will order bombing to commence at the earliest opportunity" - quiggibub, on 07/12/2008, -1/+4Well, *****.
- inactive, on 07/12/2008, -0/+3Do you not understand how many larger problems a manned mission to Mars poses over the robot missions?
- emjaymj, on 07/12/2008, -0/+3Modern space shuttles and rockets don't use fossil fuels...
- CaptainHarlock, on 07/12/2008, -0/+3"It's not a toy, it makes real cupcakes, with a 40 watt bulb. And there's icing packets... but the secret ingredients... is love, damn it." - Captain Murphy : Sealab 2021
- inactive, on 07/12/2008, -0/+2Send another robot to fix the other robot.
- ahoyhoy1, on 07/12/2008, -1/+3I would probably be having sex with people from Mars if they were'nt all men.
- eihwaz, on 07/12/2008, -0/+1Not really, this is way more limited both in time and possibilities. He's almost in the polar region so during the winter he'll die because of ice and not enough sun to recharge batteries. Plus, it can do a maximum number of 8 soil analysis, and it can't move from the spot he is. Even if he could survive the winter (wich he can't), after the 8 ovens are used he would be nothing more than a remote camera.
The 2 rovers instead are in a southern region, and have enough sun to pass the winters. They can move, wich means that even if they don't have many specific "scientific" tools they are still a great opportunity to explore the planet in search of interesting spots for future missions. - DestroyFascism, on 07/13/2008, -0/+1Should have got the Japanese one and not the cheap Chinese one from wallmart.
- inactive, on 07/14/2008, -0/+1Why bother though? We have oodles of worthless desert here on this planet. It doesn't cost a zillion dollars to get to any of them AND they all have breathable air.
- Hetman, on 07/12/2008, -1/+2If someone is willing to go to mars why not send them?
- armakaryk, on 07/12/2008, -0/+1well at least this time the problem wasn't caused by some one forgetting to carry a 1.
- inactive, on 07/12/2008, -1/+2The rover was constructed in such a way that prevents it from carrying any illnesses.
- alecks, on 07/12/2008, -0/+1Obviously
- chemicalrxn, on 07/12/2008, -0/+1The project leader for Pheonix was the same project leader for the Mars Polar Lander mission. You may not remember it. It was designed to do the exact same thing as the Pheonix, but it slammed into the surface and was a failure.
So yes, I believe another failure of this magnitude would be devastating to those engineers. - Hetman, on 07/12/2008, -2/+3This is the reason there has to be a manned mission to mars. People are way more capable of fixing problems than machines are. Then again the risks are a lot greater. But has that not been the case for every explorer since the beginning of time.
- Seth024, on 07/12/2008, -0/+1The Iraq War could buy us about 1276 Mars rovers. I'm not even counting the money we could save by doing the research once instead of 1276 times. We could easily get 10,000 robots on mars if we mass produce them.
- JYoungest1, on 07/12/2008, -10/+11***** THING SUCKS
- whisperedlie, on 07/12/2008, -1/+2do it live?
- Fergy, on 07/13/2008, -0/+1Ever heard of threads NewsdudeNewsdude?
- MattNF, on 07/12/2008, -0/+1Um, sorry to burst your bubble, but it is pretty much IMPOSSIBLE to remove all life from any object. There will always be a bacteria or something small on it. I believe the closest they have ever gotten to removing all life from an object was with this mission and there was an estimated 5,000 bacteria per square centimeter still remaining (or something like that).
- sap959, on 07/12/2008, -0/+1Haven't you got to spend money to make money?
- Seth024, on 07/12/2008, -0/+1Asking one person if he likes the simpsons is not a good measurement to determine if Simpsons are liked (carbon exists).
- deuxdood, on 07/12/2008, -2/+3Heh, 420.
- Spudster, on 07/12/2008, -0/+1I learned about organic chemistry in grade 11 personally...
- kkDonut, on 07/12/2008, -0/+1Even if it's still operating in November, it'll lose all contact because Earth and Mars would be on opposite sides of the sun.
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