Originally published at: http://boingboing.net/2016/11/03/schiaparelli-lander-crash-site.html
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Well, it’s about time we sent that pharmaceutical patent troll to crash on another planet.
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Look, even if you don’t like her clothing, it’s unseemly to gloat over Elsa Schiaparelli crashing and burning.
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Schiaparelli died doing what he loved.
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self driving technology can’t even handle an empty planet
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hey! it parked exactly in the middle of the white spots!
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As that lander was meant to be a proof of concept–if the lander failed…to…land*, doesn’t that mean the system didn’t work? That the tech failed?
*Yes, yes, it didn’t fail to land, but it did fail to land properly.
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it was called proof of concept before it crashed - now it’s a testbed and gave valuable informations for the next attempt
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Well, now this is going to create a lot of confusion for the locals years from now.
“It’s over by Schiaparelli Crater. No, not that one, the other one!”
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Another NASA sockpuppet account?
It is common knowledge that the lander did not crash – it was intentionally shot down by NASA and that the U.S. space agency has actually done the same thing to a number of other probes that were launched to find evidence of extraterrestrial life.
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It’s like Texas when the directions the local gives you inevitably tell you to turn at the Old Walmart.
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"I like landers that actually land..."
president trump wouldn’t take any guff from these egghead types!
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I thought it was secretly to change Mars’ orbit so that it doesn’t crash into earth per Gary Johnson’s prediction.
(OK, Johnson was talking about the sun, but, come on, low-hanging fruit.)
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unlikely. to the best of my knowledge NASA is a glorified film studio
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Just a crashed weather balloon. Nothing to see here folks.
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It landed sooner than expected.
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Dude,
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Sometimes you get pissed off, sometimes you get pissed on.
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