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    Chart Shows How Few Missions To Mars Succeeded
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    Image of twophrasebark twophrasebark
    10/22/09

    In reply to Chart Shows How Few Missions To Mars Succeeded
    Well, they just couldn't keep shooting down our probes anymore. We were going to start getting suspicious. #space
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    10/22/09

    In reply to Chart Shows How Few Missions To Mars Succeeded
    Mission failure seems like a broad category: would funding problems or design problems and delays leading to cancellation add to that number, or were they all catastrophic and explosive failures? #space
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    Image of Harrison_Bergeron Harrison_Bergeron
    10/22/09

    In reply to Chart Shows How Few Missions To Mars Succeeded
    All that matters is that NASA gets there first with a manned mission, because everybody knows that if you stick a flag in something its yours. #space
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    Image of Dr Emilio Lizardo Dr Emilio Lizardo
    10/22/09

    @Harrison_Bergeron: Will that work on the donuts in the kitchen at work? #space
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    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    10/22/09

    @Harrison_Bergeron: In that case, I just stuck a flag in YO MAMA. #space
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    Image of Harrison_Bergeron Harrison_Bergeron
    10/22/09

    @Dr Emilio Lizardo: If it worked for the moon it should work for the donuts you speak of. #space
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    Image of botanicidal botanicidal
    10/22/09

    @Harrison_Bergeron: that rational hasn't quite worked for Antarctica, though. Which is, at this point, probably a good thing. :) #space
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    Image of Harrison_Bergeron Harrison_Bergeron
    10/22/09

    @botanicidal: I think Manifest Destiny worked out quite well, just ask people in California. #space
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    Image of twDarkflame twDarkflame
    10/22/09

    @Harrison_Bergeron: The question is one of limits, why should planting a flag on a planet give you the whole planet, rather then merely the significant geographical region around the flag. #space
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    Image of Purple Dave Purple Dave
    10/22/09

    In reply to Chart Shows How Few Missions To Mars Succeeded
    So, the most important lesson learned hear is to never let the Reds send you to the red planet. You'll almost certainly die. The US, on the other hand, has just shy of a 75% success rate. The EU is 100% right now, but with only two missions under their belt it's hard to say how indicitive that is of their overall quality. #space
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    Image of omgwtflolbbqbye omgwtflolbbqbye
    10/22/09

    In reply to Chart Shows How Few Missions To Mars Succeeded
    In Soviet Russia. the mission finishes you! #space
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    10/22/09

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    "Must.... impregnate... Mars.... NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO" #space
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    Image of Rtrain Rtrain
    10/22/09

    @crashedpc - unrein: There are 6 different nations making a go at mars! What a slut! #space
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    10/22/09

    @Rtrain: Thank god she's barren #space
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    Image of tetracycloide tetracycloide
    10/22/09

    @Rtrain: well yeah, since 1960. it's been over a 50 year time span and the planet has needs. #space
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    10/22/09

    @tetracycloide: Makes you wonder why it's been 50 years...

    "That's not rust, IS IT???"

    "It'll clear up with the cream, really!" #space
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    Image of Rtrain Rtrain
    10/22/09

    @tetracycloide: So, Mars is a cougar? #space
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    10/22/09

    @Rtrain: the more important fact your missing is that this would also make the EU cougar bait. #space
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    Image of Roklimber Roklimber
    10/22/09

    In reply to Chart Shows How Few Missions To Mars Succeeded
    I seem to recall that Pathfinder landed on 1997. Are the dates on this chart launch dates? #space
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    Image of Annalee Newitz Annalee Newitz
    10/22/09

    @Roklimber: Launch dates, I think. #space
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    10/22/09

    In reply to Chart Shows How Few Missions To Mars Succeeded
    Reminds me of a Rottentrolls eppisode;
    [www.youtube.com]

    "...and Sigsy3 was a deep space probe witch against the odds did manage to get to mars....but sadly, he forgot to get in it" #space
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    Image of ManchuCandidate ManchuCandidate
    10/22/09

    In reply to Chart Shows How Few Missions To Mars Succeeded
    One would think the Red Planet would have been a perfect fit for the Soviets. Seems Mars didn't like communism either. #space
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    10/22/09

    @ManchuCandidate: It does look like the Soviets wanted Mars since the vast majority of the early missions were theirs. That's also the reason they failed, I think. Later missions had better technology and have learned from early mistakes. #space
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