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Space/Science » in reply to Dust devil tracks

A cogent analogy...

Go to your kitchen.

Stand over a tiled or wooden floor, or even lino...

Source one fresh egg.

Raise it to arms length in front of you.

Now drop it.

OK. is it worth taking photos of? Do you need an analysis of the situation?

Did it fail because the EDL sequence was misstimed? Did it fail because the shell was too weak? Was the airbag testing inadequate?

Forget that. It broke, because it was an egg *and you dropped it* .

To resolve the analogy, Colin Pillinger stands for you, Beagle II for the egg, and FASTER, BETTER, CHEAPER for the dropping...

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