Touchdown! Russia’s elusive Mars probe crashes into Pacific - or Brazil?

January 15, 2012 18:00

Russia’s Phobos-Grunt, whose mission to a Martian moon went astray before circling the Earth, has finally plunged into the Pacific Ocean, says Russia's Defense Ministry. But other experts insist it landed somewhere in central Brazil.

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No Americans don't say we are the first Democracy in the World 16.01.2012 08:37

Anyone that knows where Democracy came from knows it didn't start in the US. lol.  Maybe the youth does, but no we don't say that.

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Diego (unregistered) 16.01.2012 06:09

Americans don't say ...  America doesn't call itself Mother USA   That is a expression with deep roots. In old times Slavic people felt themselves strongly attached to their land. In some way it also represents the "generosity" of the Russian land to all the nations who live or have lived in it. You may  read what it is written about in the Wikipedia, at least. Of  course, it is an idealisation, as when Americans say that their country was the "first democracy in the World".

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Diego (unregistered) 16.01.2012 05:58

NYC wrote Russians build inferior machines than Americans.     On March last year a NASA rocket failed putting in orbit 2 "Glory" program satellites (USD 450 m). A couple of years ago a Falcon rocket founded by NASA failed launching 4 satellites (USD 770 m). I do not need to remind you of Challenger and Columbia explosions. Actually the coefficient of reliability of the NASA manned missions is lower than that of the Russian Agency.

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1voice 16.01.2012 04:07

Imagine if Russia, the US, and China collaborated on a mission to Mars...

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New World Order 16.01.2012 03:12

Americans don't say we are number one First the idea of “mother” suggests that a mother never puts herself first! I assume you know that. And yes the U.S always thinks it’s number one. Manifest Destiny is why the U.S going bankrupt today because the Americans want to be number one always and always. In WWII the Russians fought 95% of the time and won the greatest wars both against the Japanese and against the Nazi Germany so why 5% the U.S fought has been translated into to 100% of the WWII effort? And the Russians were the first to go to space and they are still in the leading edge of space exploration but here in this very thread- we have people shouting the U.S is number one in space exploration, the U.S is number one in space research!

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Americans don't say we are number one 16.01.2012 03:01

Never have. America doesn't call itself Mother USA

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New World Order 16.01.2012 01:58

Libertywithoutlies The Russians always put emphasis on cooperation but in reality the U.S space program is busted and the Russians are willing to cooperate and do indeed cooperate of lot of nations and companies and that includes the U.S but the Russians do not have the mental disease of shouting we are number One all the time? No and this is the point.

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Any scientist knows what the purpose of 16.01.2012 01:55

the Space exploration is about.

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Libertywithoutlies 16.01.2012 01:28

here's a depressing thought for humanity....   ....people are arguing over THIS!!!   the se space agencies dont work in competition as is suggested MANY times in these comments... &nb sp;  yet rather work together.   Surely, the history of this probe is evidence of that?

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New World Order 16.01.2012 00:29

Somebody often copies my screen name when he/she fails to throw anything against me. Now the readers would which NWO is the fake and which one is the real one.

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tides 16.01.2012 00:23

PR1oh1 wrote in #20
@New World OrderActually, China is ahead of Russia in most scientific areas now. Now that Russia does not have the smartest people from the eastern European countries, it will continue to fall farther behind. The whole world know this. You don't know many Russians, do you?

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Nay Lin Maung 16.01.2012 00:14

It is good new that it lands in to the water of the Pacific where dragon likes to play with it.   In the Pacific, the real dragon still exists in this new modern days.

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New World Order 16.01.2012 00:12

please go back to the Kremlin PR1oh1 please go back to the CIA There  could be kids reading.

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