The latest edition of Tangled Bank — a science blog carnival — is up, and I get schooled, apparently. It’s not my fault that every space agency seems to misplace Mars probes…
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May 14th, 2008 at 3:37 pm
It’s a little tough to see why it’s your fault that NASA only asked for help looking for its own probe. I bet if ESA asked for help looking for Beagle 2, and made the images available, you’d ask us to help them too!
I tried to post this on the beagle project (interesting idea by the way) but got an error message. Now I just need to find time to look at the rest of those blogs.
May 14th, 2008 at 4:07 pm
Hi Trebuchet, sorry to hear you got an error message on our blog (Beagle Project). Were you trying to post a comment under our Tangled Bank post? If you want to email me your comment you can send it to karen (at) thebeagleproject (dot) com.
May 14th, 2008 at 4:21 pm
Thanks Karen. I was only going to say what I said above, and yes it was under the tangled bank post. Obviously the whole thing was in jest, no big deal. I really do need to go back and look at your site, it sounds very interesting.
May 15th, 2008 at 7:11 am
Trebuchet – not for nothing do your armed forces call ours the borrowers. Probably the same with astronomy….and yes, I was ‘schooling’ Phil in jest.