Anyone else feel sad about the apparent failure of the European Beagle project? Failure in terms of no response from the probe that landed on Mars on Christmas day that is. At least NASA's Rover Mission is going well and sending back excellent pictures. And talking about NASA images, can there really be any doubt that there is life out there when you see pictures like these.
Posted by Joe at January 8, 2004 06:31 PMWell, not succeeding is hardly a surprise. I heard on the telly that only one third of the Mars missions succeed.
Posted by: Marko at January 9, 2004 02:31 AMLooking at the pictures from Mars one can SURELY doubt there is life out there. The pictures are not exactly teeming with signs of life. They look pretty darn barren to me.
Course, that's not a bad thing in my eyes seeing as how I like to camp in Death Valley.. I like barren.
I do believe in "life out there" simply because of the incredible number of oppurtunities for it to have arisen. Given the number of galaxies - and the number of stars in each galaxy - the odds of there NOT being life would be pretty amazing.
Posted by: Bill at January 9, 2004 04:28 AM> Given the number of galaxies - and
> the number of stars in each galaxy - the
> odds of there NOT being life would
> be pretty amazing.
Click on the 'pictures like these' link in the entry and you'll see that's exactly what I'm referring to ... not the Mars pictures.
Posted by: Joe at January 9, 2004 07:26 AMMars is known as the graveyard for space ships.
'Mission control, the Beagle has landed.' Hee hee!
Posted by: DJ at January 9, 2004 07:43 AMThey'll pick and fix them all up when they colonise the place though. :+/
Posted by: Joe at January 9, 2004 08:05 AMRust heaps by that time.
Posted by: DJ at January 9, 2004 09:43 AMActually, there is very little opportunity for life to exist the way it exists here. But there could be something, somewhere ... after all, anything is possible. :)
Posted by: Vaneta at January 9, 2004 10:13 AMWell, as my name is supposed to mean "Warrior of Mars," I am just going to keep sweeping the floor until - as Nina Simone puts it so beautifully - the ship, the black frieghter comes in (packed with my Martian cohorts)... that'll learn ya!
Posted by: martin at January 9, 2004 10:57 AMDid I ever tell you I'm off to Saturn when all this is over?
Posted by: Joe at January 9, 2004 11:20 AMNo. But do take a change of underwear.
Posted by: martin at January 9, 2004 12:27 PMYou travel with bags? I buy what I need when I get there!
Posted by: Joe at January 9, 2004 01:15 PMFrivolity.
Posted by: martin at January 9, 2004 01:17 PMMakes the world go round. :+)
Posted by: Joe at January 9, 2004 02:30 PMBut think of the headline if you got hit by a meteorite: "Saturn-bound Man in Dirty Underwear Zapped by Rock"
At least Barry Humphries knows the what to do in such a situation.
A towel. A true hitch-hiker never goes anywhere without a towel.
Posted by: DJ at January 9, 2004 05:20 PMUsed to be a Swiss Army knife but 9/11 put paid to that.
Posted by: martin at January 9, 2004 06:03 PMThis is now the longest comment thread on the entire blog!
Posted by: Joe at January 9, 2004 10:51 PMKeep it up!!
Posted by: DJ at January 12, 2004 09:35 AMwhat, the search for good ole beagle?
Posted by: martin at January 12, 2004 10:33 AMSomething like that.
Posted by: Joe at January 13, 2004 01:17 PM