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From the article: "The project to design and build a European rover to send to Mars has passed an important milestone. Engineers have demonstrated a vented, or dead-beat, airbag technology that could be used to cushion the vehicle's landing on the Red Planet. An effective entry, descent and landing system will be critical to the success of the ExoMars mission, as it is known."

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eviln3d
June 11, 2007, 11:29 a.m.
I'm pretty sure you wont.
Too many issues that can't be worked out with know science...
How do you block the radiation from frying the passengers on that long flight seems to be pretty hard one.
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Star_Poet
June 11, 2007, 10:55 a.m.
LOL, discarded beer can indeed. Hanyman, you're a riot. Why not go so far as to discover an ancient McDonald's restaurant?
:D
I'm in line to travel to Mars.
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coolrayfruge
June 11, 2007, 11:29 a.m.
The real problem in the world is money.
Here he worried about economic callapse.
As if that would be the end of mankind.
Wrong that what they want you to think.
It would only mean the end of those who use money to control us in the first place.
Which would be a good thing! We don't need them.
News Flash :WE don't need money to survive.
Just one another,helping each other out without the need of money to do that.
We just have to organize ,work together.
Its profitable for the big corporatations to let this world go to ******.
It will be another way of squeezing the poor working class financually.
We will be the ones that gets the ******ty end of the deal.
The corporates will be laughing all the way to the bank.
That would be the true crime,if we just go alng with their ideas.
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Plain-007
June 11, 2007, 12:25 p.m.
Taking this as the effort of the whole planet rather than the effort of an individual country is the right way to go. Even if the challenge is tackled by an individual company it should be seen as the effort of the entire world. Congratulations!
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Truzseeker
June 11, 2007, 3:53 p.m.
More important milestone...water puddles on Mars !
http://space.newscientist.com/article/dn12026-m...
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truthiness
June 11, 2007, 7:56 p.m.
awesome stuff...hope to see a global space agency. would love to see a landing on mars. should probably be setting up a station on the moon first though, test out some low-g tech close to home. maybe create a shuttle route with solar sails fom luna to remis.
i shoulda been a sci fi writer, oh wait..
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Countryhick
June 11, 2007, 10:07 p.m.
Does this lower Gas prices ?
Did they find Oil on Mars ?
Alright , so gasoline prices will plummet , and we can drive again , RIGHT !
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FRICKANDFRACK
June 11, 2007, 10:50 p.m.
Make exploration of space a global endeavor,kind of a slap in the face to free enterprise,multiple companies chasing the same market creates innovation and lowered costs whereas a monopoly encourages stagnation and waste.A space race or a "friendly" competition leads to just the kind of creative thinking that we applaude from our friends across the ocean and we have seen the appreciation for our endeavors from everyone.I should think the free sharing of knowledge gained and to an extent unique resources like Hubble and the European space probes would be more palatable and profitable for all of mankind including poor nations unable to contribute so leave nations to slap themselves on the back and exploit the shared technologies and discoveries.
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methesame002
June 12, 2007, 3:29 a.m.
Check out http://www.photo2text.com
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FRICKANDFRACK
June 12, 2007, 8:52 p.m.
Methesame002 slightly off topic but way way cool.
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eviln3d
June 14, 2007, 11:51 a.m.
My what a waste of money and time.... millions of kids are starving... aids is killing millions... and we want to send a ship to Mars - what perfect waste of resources. What did we get from those billions spent sending some dudes to the moon? I would say Tang, but it turns out that existed before we even sent a dog to space so I truly can't think of a damn thing.
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FRICKANDFRACK
June 16, 2007, 12:38 a.m.
What did we gain from the space race.
http://www.sti.nasa.gov/tto/
http://www.space.com/adastra/adastra_spinoffs_0...
http://search.netscape.com/search/search?query=... technology spin offs&invocationType=net-home
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graceforbes
Feb. 15, 2008, 7:08 a.m.
Again, welcome! May I ask what brings you to this particular list? http://mp3blow.com/chapter/c/