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Re: Mars Express and Beagle 2
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When they were not able to repeat the Wright brothers flight earlier this month, inspite of modern aerospace knowledge, millions of dollars of funding, and a hundred years of experience over the Wright brothers
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Actually the planes worked. Mother nature just was not cooperating. The plane needs an massive amount of headwind to fly but unfortunately the wind was shifting all over the place. Those guys are ingenious. Their assitant maganed to make their own gasoline engine with steam powered tools. The accuracy rivaled todays automated tools.
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If either a public officer or any one else saw a person attempting to cross a bridge which had been ascertained to be unsafe, and there were no time to warn him of his danger, they might seize him and turn him back without any real infringement of his liberty; for liberty consists in doing what one desires, and he does not desire to fall into the river. -Mill
Last edited by Adam Y. : 27-12-2003 at 19:34.
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