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David Whitehouse lurks the Habitable Zone.
You know this for a fact?
R.L.
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5/25/2004 8:49:28 PM
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Beage 2: As I was saying
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Donald
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5/22/2004 1:10:38 AM
a portrait ..
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Daniel L
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5/24/2004 4:54:17 PM
Predictions, anyone? How long before ESA offers competitive prizes like NASA now is?
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~tax leech
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5/23/2004 1:10:34 PM
re: Predictions, anyone? How long before ESA offers competitive prizes like NASA now is?
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Doug Ellison
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5/27/2004 4:00:22 PM
Winning a contract vs. winning a competitive prize
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~tax leech
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5/27/2004 9:45:05 PM
A Difference Overlooked
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Mark Eby
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5/23/2004 5:10:01 AM
David Whitehouse lurks the Habitable Zone.
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Gary
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5/22/2004 11:01:03 PM
You know this for a fact?
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R.L.
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5/25/2004 8:49:28 PM
Yes
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Gary
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5/27/2004 6:43:44 AM
Another article about Beagle 2
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Gary
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5/23/2004 2:18:09 AM
Exactly on point
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Donald
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5/23/2004 1:56:15 PM
re: Exactly on point
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Chris Vancil
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5/24/2004 7:40:18 AM
Standard practice is to design for the worst case scenario
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Gary
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5/24/2004 3:56:38 PM
Importance of feedback from protypes
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dtb
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5/25/2004 3:21:55 AM
re: Standard practice is to design for the worst case scenario
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Chris Vancil
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5/24/2004 8:52:16 PM
How to Lower the bar and increase science success probability
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Gary
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5/25/2004 4:46:42 AM
re: I would like to see weather stations and seismometers all over the surface of Mars...either of which need to move around much.
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Chris Vancil
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5/25/2004 8:57:40 AM
What's their EDL system?
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Gary
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5/25/2004 4:08:55 PM
re: What's their EDL system?
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Chris Vancil
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5/25/2004 8:47:30 PM
re: What's their EDL system?
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Doug Ellison
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5/26/2004 9:13:20 AM
re: More on NetLander
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Chris Vancil
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5/25/2004 9:13:21 PM
Great idea
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dtb
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5/25/2004 5:25:37 AM
Build to Print
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Gary
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5/25/2004 6:45:29 AM
re: Build to Print
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Nick Hoffman
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5/26/2004 5:33:17 AM
I'm only a humble engineer....
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Gary
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5/26/2004 3:58:49 PM
don't hold your breath for a refund
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traveling geek
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5/22/2004 4:45:40 AM
Sounds like what they said about Mars Polar Lander.
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Robert Clark
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5/22/2004 4:44:54 AM
Let the space organization that does not have at least one pile of multimillion dollar junk littering the Martian surface, cast the first stone.
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Tom Brosz
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5/22/2004 7:11:03 AM
re: Let the space organization that does not have at least one pile of multimillion dollar junk littering the Martian surface, cast the first stone.
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Doug Ellison
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5/22/2004 8:40:49 AM
A big difference
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Donald
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5/22/2004 2:11:07 PM
Yes, there are some differencess...
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Nathan Koren
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5/22/2004 11:21:10 PM
re: A big difference
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Doug Ellison
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5/22/2004 3:10:29 PM
re: Beagle 2 was 'too great a risk'
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Fatcat
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5/22/2004 6:14:52 PM
You're missing the point
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Donald
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5/22/2004 3:33:55 PM
re: You're missing the point
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Chris Vancil
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5/24/2004 8:58:54 AM
How much extra would Beagle 2 have cost if they used the NASA airbag sytem?
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Robert Clark
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5/22/2004 9:52:19 PM
Many space scientists said MPL's landing system was doomed to failure BEFORE it arrived at Mars.
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Robert Clark
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5/22/2004 9:05:42 PM
re: You're missing the point
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Chris Vancil
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5/22/2004 8:26:56 PM
re: You're missing the point
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Donald
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5/23/2004 2:28:33 PM
re: You're missing the point
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Chris Vancil
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5/24/2004 8:07:08 AM
Yeah, the failure of MPL could have been avoided if they used an entirely different landing system.
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Robert Clark
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5/23/2004 9:12:10 PM
re: Yeah, the failure of MPL could have been avoided if they used an entirely different landing system.
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Doug Ellison
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5/23/2004 10:18:32 PM
Are you sure just the NASA airbags without the retrorockets would have exceeded the mass constraints?
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Robert Clark
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5/24/2004 2:51:05 AM
re: Are you sure just the NASA airbags without the retrorockets would have exceeded the mass constraints?
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Doug Ellison
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5/24/2004 9:06:05 AM
re: You're missing the point
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Doug Ellison
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5/23/2004 10:10:42 AM
You might be right.
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Tom Brosz
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5/22/2004 4:01:26 PM
HabitableZone — be civil, or at least entertaining.