Is anyone in the mood to try and tear apart what unfortunately seems to be a rather credible conspiracy theory? Let's begin with a quote:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3344693.stm

"Mike Healey from Beagle 2's constructor Astrium UK said [Beagle 2] really should have been able to communicate with [NASA's] Odyssey this morning."

Now then, the question is: did Astrium actually WANT the lean-budgeted Beagle 2 to fail this week?

The European Space Agency is almost as socialist as NASA. Some in Europe have complained that socialist ESA has anointed basically one contractor monopoly, Astrium, while we already know that NASA has anointed its own for Mars as well: Lockheed Martin. LockMart and Astrium are basically NOT competitors for government contracts, and neither is particularly commercial where space is concerned either. Anyhow, even though Astrium built Beagle 2, it apparently stands to profit disproportionately if embarrassment from it should result in political demands for better funding for ESA-sponsored interplanetary probes. How much support was there in Europe for interplanetary missions BEFORE this "unintentional" embarrassment emanating from Europe's first attempt? Not nearly as much, right?

Do you remember what happened when Lockheed's 1999 Mars missions failed miserably? LockMart and tax-leeching bureaucrats involved with Mars missions got MORE money for future NASA missions to Mars. Although LockMart got its feather$ ruffled a bit in the process, did it not come out ahead financially because of the 1999 "failures"? And weren't the causes of those Mars failures rather silly (if not intentional), as is documented at:

http://www.SpaceProjects.com/Mars ?

It wasn't enough that orbiters had successfully made it to Mars: the public wanted photo-ops of the surface.

Here's the most annoying part: since then, Lockheed has worked against the emergence of pro-entrepreneurial, NASA-funded COMPETITIVE prizes:

http://www.SpaceProjects.com/prizes

Lockheed consequently maintains its monopolistic stronghold over NASA's Mars endeavors. Now then, is it unsurprising that we've not heard of monopolist Astrium's supporting competitive prizes' emergence in Europe, either? It was a competitive prize, NOT a government contract, that lured Charles Lindberg's historic entrepreneurial flight from the USA to Europe. Nevertheless, the socialists in Europe's space agency now seem to prefer to overlook this awkward detail, just like the socialists corruptly dominating NASA do. Isn't it time to get the bureaucrats and their pet contractors out of humanity's way so that we can finally bring life to space, and space to life?