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Re:Lost Beagle2 probe found 'intact' on Mars by jgrahamc on Friday January 16, 2015 @06:23AM (#8898221)
Thumbs up for that book. The section about the development of mobile telephony is great.
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Re:Lost Beagle2 probe found 'intact' on Mars by arethuza on Friday January 16, 2015 @06:43AM (#8898272)
The section on Elite was pretty interesting as well - I can remember being amazed playing it on an Acorn Electron in '84/'85.

Colin Pillinger seemed like a great bloke though, I really did feel sorry for him when the probe failed.

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Re:Lost Beagle2 probe found 'intact' on Mars by coroxout on Friday January 16, 2015 @09:13AM (#8898966)
Yes, I loved the Elite section - I bought the book after reading an excerpt from the Elite chapter in the Guardian [0] - and the Concorde section.

I had also missed the news of Colin Pillinger's death; RIP.

[0] Probably this one, should anyone else be curious: http://www.theguardian.com/books/2003/oct/18/features.weeken...

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Re:Lost Beagle2 probe found 'intact' on Mars by jgalt212 on Friday January 16, 2015 @09:13AM (#8898969)
Yes, great chapter. I like the bit about after the fall of Soviet Union the KGB tries to sell satellite images of Great Britain to be used by Vodaphone for radio planning.
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