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(Houston Chronicle) NewsFlash Genesis spacecraft crashes on reentry, screams of "KHAAAAAAAAAAAN!" heard from mission control center   (chron.com) divider line 447
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SacriliciousBeerSwiller
2004-09-08 12:24:32 PM
Pathetic.
 
bandy
2004-09-08 12:24:33 PM
Oopsie!
 
Devin172
2004-09-08 12:24:43 PM
What the hell is NASA's problem lately? When did they become a bunch of bumbling idiots?
 
phark_phucker
2004-09-08 12:24:50 PM
that sux, oh well back to work
 
knowles
2004-09-08 12:24:58 PM
el low el.
 
Grand_Moff_Joseph [TotalFark]
2004-09-08 12:25:12 PM
Awesome headline! :)

Anyway, the spacecraft was flying in outer space for three years, and spent most of its time being bombarded with extreme heat and radiation. So, something not working upon its return is a very likely event.

Also, NASA is not a big waste of our tax dollars. Without the developments and discoveries of NASA astronauts and engineers over the last 50 years, we would be nowhere near the level of technological sophistication that we are at right now.
 
Deemon Deekun
2004-09-08 12:25:16 PM
"Proving ground" indeed.
 
aaadarklaw
2004-09-08 12:25:21 PM
Your scientific, particle-gathering space pod asplode!
 
Will N. Dowd
2004-09-08 12:25:24 PM
Please stop complaining that this is the same as the other thread.

That thread is about the webcast, which turned into a thread about watching it crash.

This thread is about the news item that was born when it crashed.
 
MandM [TotalFark]
2004-09-08 12:26:02 PM
Was the guy who packed the parachute named pancake?
 
Mr. Coffee Nerves [TotalFark]
2004-09-08 12:26:06 PM
Pfft. Big deal. Everyone KNOWS that the only way to get accurate information about space is with vigorous, frequent anal probing.

At least that's what Astronomy professor, Father Flanagan, taught me.
 
mfp
2004-09-08 12:26:07 PM
Is a live spacecraft anything like ordinance?
 
DsRsF
2004-09-08 12:26:08 PM
Holy crap! Drew!!11!oen!11!purple!

/surrenders
 
safeinsane
2004-09-08 12:26:11 PM
God, I hope Phil Collins was in it...

...with Jimmy Buffett...
 
GaidinBDJ [TotalFark]
2004-09-08 12:26:22 PM
D'oh!
 
Crown Of Negativity
2004-09-08 12:26:29 PM
But did it land on Kenny Loggins?
/mst3k the movie
 
Joshua
2004-09-08 12:26:34 PM
Man, I miss the days when NASA used to get things right.

Free tradjectory return around the moon is childsplay compared to this.

And um...remember the mars rovers?
 
Wizzin
2004-09-08 12:26:49 PM
Priceless. Can we get a real space agency now?
 
Testy Wasserman
2004-09-08 12:26:56 PM
Is it just me, or does that look like the same piece of land where they filmed the "moon landings"?

/tinfoil hat on, 'cos they already have black helicopters out there
 
JeffF
2004-09-08 12:27:13 PM
2004-09-08 12:26:29 PM Crown Of Negativity

But did it land on Kenny Loggins?

Service Engine Soon? I wonder what that's all about?
 
doccm9
2004-09-08 12:27:32 PM
Big bada boom.
 
AngryEdward
2004-09-08 12:27:39 PM
I told you so!

/Michael Crichton
 
JPFlathead
2004-09-08 12:28:12 PM
Is that an audioedit contest I hear?
 
rocknrico
2004-09-08 12:28:27 PM
"This is Russian space program type stuff. "

Dude, you got it backwards. When it comes to space, the russians are the only ones that have a clue.

The rest of the world is blowing up and crashing all over the place.
 
oettinfr
2004-09-08 12:28:35 PM
Another 256 mln $ grounded (thank God US bucks, not German ones).....kinda ironic...at least all of the engineers used feet as a measure and didn't mix it with the metric system....would have been one hell of a impact. Very sad though for all the scientists. It's like denting Dad's car on arrival at home from a loooooong trip
 
byteblock
2004-09-08 12:28:48 PM
These NASA guys seriously need to get their act together.

/Why does NASA hate america?
 
faxinator
2004-09-08 12:28:51 PM
I call shenanigans.
 
mistrmind [TotalFark]
2004-09-08 12:29:09 PM
Man oh man.
Crashed with some funky stuff from the cosmos.

Jeez, the whole thing whiffs of The Andromeda Strain.
 
symphonik
2004-09-08 12:29:11 PM
Damnit.

Yeah. Their "contigency plan" was only for "what if the helicopter couldn't snag it", not "what if the capsule smashes into the desert floor at re-entry speed."

All of it, lost. :(
 
VegaMoth
2004-09-08 12:29:21 PM
You are in command now, Admiral Piett!
 
PhantomPhark
2004-09-08 12:29:23 PM
that sucks. I was looking forward to finding out who killed Dr. Reyga.
 
Rhino Jockey
2004-09-08 12:29:26 PM
That was one of the coolest fark-ups I've ever seen.
 
Texa$ [TotalFark]
2004-09-08 12:29:41 PM
Once more with feeling:



HA! HA!
/Was this really unexpected?
 
acaciaavenue
2004-09-08 12:29:54 PM
Best. Headline. Ever.
 
fontcase
2004-09-08 12:29:55 PM
My taxpayer share of the crater comes to about $0.09 for approx. 1/2 square cm.

Now get off my land.
 
al370601
2004-09-08 12:30:00 PM
Well, at least now we know that a 500 lbs spacecraft worth millions of dollars crashing at terminal speed makes a very unimpressive hole in the ground.
 
TommyymmoT [TotalFark]
2004-09-08 12:30:01 PM
Batteries not included? NOW they tell me.

I'm no rocket surgeon, but I would poke it with a stick, or maybe chuck a rock at it and run away.
 
john_frink
2004-09-08 12:30:06 PM
Keep in mind we're spending $1 billion on the Iraq "effort" every 2 days, so NASA has yet to join the big leagues when it comes to wasting taxpayer money.
 
medfly
2004-09-08 12:30:09 PM
If it's dead, I hope they give it a proper burial.
I mean, just kick the rest of the dirt over it.
 
fatal_exception
2004-09-08 12:30:13 PM
They spent over 1/2 a billion dollars to get some sun atoms? Why the hell didn't they ask me? I've got jars full of them that I collected on my patio this summer. They could've had them for, say a million a jar?
 
seattlemurdock
2004-09-08 12:30:19 PM
Well, that is nice of NASA, gonna fly in the recovery team rather than making them drive. So see, something did come out of this, some Scientists get to ride in a chopper and go WEEEEEEEEEEE...
 
sofarked
2004-09-08 12:30:23 PM
I watched that sucker come down and it looked like it was in pieces.
 
Cherish
2004-09-08 12:30:28 PM
So... Why couldn't these particals be passively collected from some instrument mounted off the International Space Station and then shuttled back to earth with an astronaut??

Did it have to be a $260 faliure??

We'll never know because humans are dumb and inefficient.
 
wopper
2004-09-08 12:30:32 PM
News Flash: 'Sun particles' look a lot like Utah dirt!
 
zaphod__boone
2004-09-08 12:30:38 PM
 
Texa$ [TotalFark]
2004-09-08 12:31:02 PM
Well crap Note to self. Preview dammit!
 
Rhino Jockey
2004-09-08 12:31:08 PM
Buried alive! Buried alive!
 
Fr0let
2004-09-08 12:31:20 PM
master_of_none
I think that the crash was caused by a failure in the Blast Processor
 
wiredroach
2004-09-08 12:31:21 PM
Dugway Proving Ground....

The capsule proved it could be dug way into the ground.
 
T_R_J
2004-09-08 12:31:25 PM
Am I the only one that feels loss for when something like this happens?
 
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