Euro Space Agency Mars rover crashes onto Martian surface.

Tidewater · Oct 20, 2016

Probably. (No contact. The rover has not phoned home telling ESA "I've crashed.")
Crash landing feared as Europe's Mars lander still silent It appears the retro rockets did not fire long enough.
Sad.
That's a very expensive piece of Martian space junk.

Catfish · Oct 20, 2016

Man, I hate to hear that.

crimsonaudio · Oct 20, 2016

"Space is hard."

Just shows how awesome NASA has been delivering rovers to Mars. It's tough, but they have a 100% success rate. Amazing.

MattinBama · Oct 20, 2016

What a bunch of Euro trash.

CajunCrimson · Oct 20, 2016

Wolowitz strikes again

Tidewater · Oct 20, 2016

crimsonaudio said:
"Space is hard."

As my cousin Tom Sizemore said in Blackhawk Down, "It's unforgiving."

Makes me wonder about manned Mars missions. If this number of unmanned missions have crashed onto Mars, imagine the outcry with the same success rate with humans on board.

MattinBama · Oct 20, 2016

Tidewater said:
Makes me wonder about manned Mars missions. If this number of unmanned missions have crashed onto Mars, imagine the outcry with the same success rate with humans on board.

Depends on the humans.

crimsonaudio · Oct 20, 2016

Tidewater said:
As my cousin Tom Sizemore said in Blackhawk Down, "It's unforgiving."

Tom Sizemore is your cousin? That's cool.

crimsonaudio · Oct 20, 2016

Tidewater said:
Makes me wonder about manned Mars missions. If this number of unmanned missions have crashed onto Mars, imagine the outcry with the same success rate with humans on board.

I think NASA is using this for the funding - they know good and well a dead astronaut (who doesn't rot away), lying on the surface is no good. And Mars is a one-way trip...

Tidewater · Oct 20, 2016

crimsonaudio said:
Tom Sizemore is your cousin? That's cool.

Sixth cousin, 15 times removed.
If I showed up at Tom's door and did not have a case of beer under my arm, I bet he'd say, "Who the heck are you?"

PacadermaTideUs · Oct 20, 2016

Tidewater said:
Sixth cousin, 15 times removed.
If I showed up at Tom's door and did not have a case of beer under my arm, I bet he'd say, "Who the heck are you?"

No offense intended to your kin, but if what I've seen of Sizemore is true, you'd need something a good bit more decadent than beer.

JBama_in_PCOLA · Oct 20, 2016

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AUDub · Oct 20, 2016

crimsonaudio said:
I think NASA is using this for the funding - they know good and well a dead astronaut (who doesn't rot away), lying on the surface is no good. And Mars is a one-way trip...

Nerd cap <on> Off

Oh they very likely would rot on Mars if the temps remained optimum. Anaerobic bacteria and all that. Fairly quick with warmer temps.

Even if he did mummify, Mars has windstorms that would slowly wittle our poor unfortunate wannabe Martian to dust.

Nerd cap on <off>

Jon · Oct 20, 2016

Tidewater said:
Sixth cousin, 15 times removed.
If I showed up at Tom's door and did not have a case of beer under my arm, I bet he'd say, "Who the heck are you?"

"are you the guy with the blow?" feels more likely from Sizemore

Tidewater · Oct 21, 2016

Jon said:
"are you the guy with the blow?" feels more likely from Sizemore

Probably right. I keep hoping he'll get his stuff together. "You can take the man out of the mountains but you can't take the mountains out of the man."
Lizemores, WV, (mis)named for the family is not far from Boone County, home of the infamous Whites of WV. Central WV is home of some fairly self-destructive behaviour.

Catfish · Oct 21, 2016

Tidewater said:
I keep hoping he'll get his stuff together...

Me, too. He's a good actor. And, having been around too much of it, I hate to see people struggling with addiction.

crimsonaudio · Oct 21, 2016

I don't keep up with any of the celebrity sites, etc - haven't for years - so imagine my shock when I read about Sizemore's battles. I had no clue. Hope he gets it together, but 40 years of addiction has got to be nearly impossible to break...

Tidewater · Oct 21, 2016

Back on topic, the ESA has now seen a big black spot on the ground where the rover was supposed land.

Schiaparelli dropped from a height of between 2 and 4 kilometers (1.4-2.4 miles, sic), therefore impacting at a considerable speed, greater than 300 kilometers per hour

Well, the rover might be okay.

No, probably not, now.

AUDub · Oct 21, 2016

Seems the ESA's new Martian bombardment experiment was a complete success.

Tidewater · Oct 21, 2016

AUDub said:
Seems the ESA's new Martian bombardment experiment was a complete success.

Somebody's going to make serious coin policing up the litter we have strewn around the place.

Euro Space Agency Mars rover crashes onto Martian surface.

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