Beagle 2 Mars 7 (AET)
Poor Professor Colin Pillinger, his Beagle 2 dream is probably over. No cup run for him, perhaps he can concentrate on the league.
I’m sorry, but his football analogy led comments are beginning to grate :-
bq. We will play to the final whistle. It only takes a fraction of a second to score a goal.
Well, it looks like the Beagle took an unfortunate thumping from Mars, there was no giant killing and whilst he got over the moon, I guess he is as sick as a parrot. Gary.
January 9th, 2004 at 22:56
It’s sad, though, isn’t it? Admittedly all of that pre-problem “plucky little Brits beating the Yanks at their own game” press was beginning to get on my nerves, but technically it was a marvel and it’s a shame that it didn’t get a chance to prove itself. Though I suppose, if you were being brutal, you could argue that it has proved exactly what it was (not) capable of.
January 10th, 2004 at 0:27
Yes, it is sad. I think such a limited device in terms of backup and failover rather than its abilities (as you say it was a marvel) would have had to have been pretty lucky to succeed. After all the US has thrown far more at Mars and failed.