ESA makes Hyugens blunder

Khanivor 21 Jan 2005 20:32:25 44,800 posts
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18 years and 2 billion miles and then some idiot forgets to switch the damn thing on.

Should be fixed now

Edited by Khanivor at 21:27:16 21-01-2005
Dirtbox 21 Jan 2005 21:22:29 92,595 posts
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Clive_Dunn 21 Jan 2005 21:24:02 4,862 posts
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Me to, perhaps we forgot to turn on the receiver ?
sam_spade 21 Jan 2005 21:26:23 15,745 posts
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It's probably been removed. I was reading about the mission on the BBC and they said an earlier failure had been fixed and they recovered the data.
Khanivor 21 Jan 2005 21:27:43 44,800 posts
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Should work now.
mentat 21 Jan 2005 22:47:58 5,613 posts
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i think it's sad that it was so silly, but 'kin hell, even with that failure, what a frigging acheivement!

Kudos.
terminalterror 21 Jan 2005 23:00:33 18,932 posts
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Could have been worse, simple human error could have buggered up the whole mission. Like mixing metric and imperial units.

mentat 21 Jan 2005 23:05:00 5,613 posts
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terminalterror wrote:
Could have been worse, simple human error could have buggered up the whole mission. Like mixing metric and imperial units.

Heh! yeah, there is that too.

mojojojomo 21 Jan 2005 23:40:29 138 posts
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sam_spade wrote:
It's probably been removed. I was reading about the mission on the BBC and they said an earlier failure had been fixed and they recovered the data.

its just some Yank anti-european propoganda...

as mentat said 'tis an amazing achievment already

and as terminalterror said the Americans have lost TWO whole projects du to an even more fundamental error!!

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