Out of 50 mission to mars since 1960, 30 failed. Launch failure, lost contact, crashed, mis-routed - you name it and it happened.
I sometimes wonder that maybe there is some intelligent life form hiding in mars that is sabotaging the missions so we cant find them
Either that or NASA, European Space Agency and Russian Space agency are full of idiots
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aap toh iis tarah keh rahay hain jaisay mars idhar mohalay may hee hai itni kareeb :p
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On galactic scale, its is really in our neighborhood.
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First an intellectual topic and now these big words…discovered a dictionary have you 
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you just have to watch star trek to know these words, not a dictionary
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I am addicted to Star Trek thanks 
But you’re right, tbh I’ve read a lot about these missions and they seem to have little or no ‘‘trial or error’’ experiments. Millions are spent knowing that the mission may fail but I guess the human’s need for exploration is greater
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No no, there is a bigger conspiracy here. The science and engineering is same and similar, so why all the space agencies had much greater success in non-martian related missions. Almost all the moon missions, orbital and flyby misisons to different planets, not to mention the most successful Voyager missions - they all went great. Why things always go wrong with the Mars missions, I always wonder
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Maybe its farther away?
Talking about conspiracies...have you heard of the ''Planet X'' theory? I didn't know whether to take it seriously or not :/
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Maybe its farther away?
Talking about conspiracies...have you heard of the ''Planet X'' theory? I didn't know whether to take it seriously or not :/
That is what I am saying. Jupiter is farther away than Mars, not to mention Voyager missions that flew by so many planets, successfully and i think they are still in operation.
Planet X, as in the 10th (now 9th) possible planet?
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Maybe because Intelligent design is taught as an alternative to evolution - the dumbing down process has started?
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Well, we haven't landed on any other planet yet and that really is the most difficult part.
Plus apparently there are lot of unpredictable fluctuations in the Martian atmosphere that make it tough on entering
Our luck is improving however. The earlier missions were more of a failure than more recent attempts.
At the end up the day, its hard to mitigate any malfunctions when you're not physically present there.
edit happens 'eh?!
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asking out of ignorance. Is 20 out of 50 success ratio all that bad? Is it out of line with overall success ratio.
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asking out of ignorance. Is 20 out of 50 success ratio all that bad? Is it out of line with overall success ratio.
Well, mate, 20 out of 50 is a 40% and that's not great considering the time and money that goes into these missions.
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^ I get that. But considering the level of complexity involved, the question is - is 40% success ratio in line or way lower than other comparable projects. I guess the answer is the latter?
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Well that's a tough one to answer since I don't have any figures handy plus it really depends on the kind of mission we're talking about.
In general though, most satellite, shuttle and other missions have upwards of three-quarters of the missions succeeding. Probably even higher.
Therefore, in comparison the Mars missions are piss poor.
Not really but relatively speaking.
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^ Thanks!