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Russian Mars Probe Probably Malfunctioned

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exo_doc said:
Why are the Russians cursed with not being able to get a probe to Mars?
This probe was supposed to bring back a sample of Phobos.
Is there a plot to stop them from being successful?
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45208128/ns/technology_and_science-space/
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Space exploration is so topsy-turvy these days.

The same country that landed a probe on Venus in 1975 can't get one on on Mars in 2011?

Maybe it's the fact that they've been out of practice.

Maybe it's because they aren't allowed to pass though the David Ikeian psychic net around the planet which was established by our reptillian overlords ;)

Kinda weird though, that there was either an engineering or math failure by the Ruskies. Ne Horosho!

I hope that we, as humanity, start to seriously ramp up space exploration just to prove to history that we aren't in decline. Failure is great, lack of trying is what I hate.
 
Well, it looks like it's broken beyond repair. And it's in a quckly deteriorating orbit. Bunch of toxic fuel on board, but "those in the know" think it will just burn up on re-entry.
I'm really kinda suprised there's not more coverage on this, but I guess Joe Paterno's "crash, explode, burn and burn some more" career is more.....entertaining.
 
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