But it's terribly Britishto know ours doesn't work and feel proud of it
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groovegenerator The man who mistook his wife for his wife,
Tue 6 Jan 2004, 11:43,
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not only thatbut the budget for their one lander was greater than for our entire space programme, including that musem near leicester
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atomboy,
Tue 6 Jan 2004, 11:44,
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and and andall the pictures they're getting now are just 'shopped from the viking stuff and the 1997 stuff. so nyer.
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muteboy,
Tue 6 Jan 2004, 11:48,
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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...
(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...
Pope Shax XIII uses Visio for picture editing, does it show?,
Tue 6 Jan 2004, 12:03,
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