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# What the Americans will really see


At least ours doesn't work so we'll never know
(I helped save b3ta! groovegenerator The man who mistook his wife for his wife, Tue 6 Jan 2004, 11:38, archived)
# space
goats

edit - woo
(I helped save b3ta! PhoenixBlend, Tue 6 Jan 2004, 11:40, archived)
# lots of NASA's
trips to Mars ended in miserable failure too, we needn't feel too bad!
(I helped save b3ta! butchbint, Tue 6 Jan 2004, 11:40, archived)
# yeah
was it summat like a 30% success rate?
(I helped save b3ta! Tedmus, Tue 6 Jan 2004, 11:42, archived)
# But it's terribly British
to know ours doesn't work and feel proud of it
(I helped save b3ta! groovegenerator The man who mistook his wife for his wife, Tue 6 Jan 2004, 11:43, archived)
# not only that
but the budget for their one lander was greater than for our entire space programme, including that musem near leicester
(I helped save b3ta! atomboy, Tue 6 Jan 2004, 11:44, archived)
# and and and
all the pictures they're getting now are just 'shopped from the viking stuff and the 1997 stuff. so nyer.
(I helped save b3ta! muteboy, Tue 6 Jan 2004, 11:48, archived)
# Now, I can't help wondering...
presumably a significant part of the cost of any space probe is the fact that all the parts are one-off.

Why don't ESA/NASA just build 5 of each probe, and then test one on Earth, one on the Moon, and fix any problems, and then send the last three to Mars...
(I helped save b3ta! Pope Shax XIII uses Visio for picture editing, does it show?, Tue 6 Jan 2004, 12:03, archived)
# anybody else
notice that those pictures require 1950's '3d glasses'?
(pikey, Tue 6 Jan 2004, 11:40, archived)
# Of course you need 3D glasses
If they were flat, all the beer would fall out.
(Prof_Frink has remembered his username, Tue 6 Jan 2004, 11:42, archived)
# ohmegod
thats so bad




i love it
(I helped save b3ta! PhoenixBlend, Tue 6 Jan 2004, 11:43, archived)
# Hmmm...
Maybe someone should invent 4D glasses...
Contains not only the beer, but also the time needed to drink it.
(Prof_Frink has remembered his username, Tue 6 Jan 2004, 11:45, archived)
# Here they are

(I helped save b3ta! groovegenerator The man who mistook his wife for his wife, Tue 6 Jan 2004, 11:47, archived)
# those 3d
pics of mars....
aren't 3d spec pics a bit 60s?



woo (by the way)
edit: yes to above
(malcolm lennon, Tue 6 Jan 2004, 11:41, archived)
# i'm planning on moving to the moon
(I helped save b3ta! Sir Sand GOBLIN ^popular page dis, Tue 6 Jan 2004, 11:44, archived)
# You too?
Wow, I'll have a neighbour!
(I helped save b3ta! Dr. Blackwolf is sucking diesel on, Tue 6 Jan 2004, 11:46, archived)
# on scond thoughts...
(I helped save b3ta! Sir Sand GOBLIN ^popular page dis, Tue 6 Jan 2004, 11:47, archived)
# *sob*
(I helped save b3ta! Dr. Blackwolf is sucking diesel on, Tue 6 Jan 2004, 11:50, archived)
# i wouldn't if i were you
the best computer that will work on the moon is a 386

something about gamma radiation
(Clockwork, Tue 6 Jan 2004, 12:02, archived)