Top Gear: Can A Genius Do A Burnout?

[zhodak]

This is a 25meg download

http://dl4.dumpalink.com/media/M49uw...GkKGSxrtSM.wmv

[montyv8]

downloading now. gotta love cable lol

[AnthonyQLD]

That poor car :

[OZFORDAU]

Hmmm the Nissan 300ZX are hot stuff!

Cheers

Simon

[micksta]

haha .. funny stuff....

looks like nerds can't do good burnouts ... now all they need to do is put a chimp in the front seat and see where it balances out :P

[seano14]

mannn i feel sorry for that car

[The Monty]

Lovely car the 300ZX.

[EDManual]

Thats just beaut!

Real funny!

[BlueRaven]

My old dream car... Always hated that spoiler too....the original was much better...

[gozza]

the 1st guy was ok

the last guy even had it sideways(slightly)

[vino3o2]

Man that was funny....talk about sitting on the rev limiter!!! "A kind of mechanic ballet" wtf??

[MrSparkle]

Excellent!

Totally agreed with their evolution chart too... :monkes:

[superpursuit83]

Coool funny stuff, I like that host, Takes the mickey out of ya in a lot of his shows

[M14A-Mclaren]

Haha, Don't these guys drive cars to work? They seem to not understand how a clutch work, that one was was sitting there on the limiter and the amount of gear crunching wasnt nice.

[spoonage]

I liked the end bit, where JC is a bit chuffed RE: Beagle 2 beating the Americans to Mars.

Beagle 2 was an unsuccessful British landing spacecraft that formed part of the European Space Agency's 2003 Mars Express mission.

Although the Beagle 2 craft successfully deployed from the Mars Express "mother ship", confirmation of a successful landing was not forthcoming. Confirmation should have come on 25 December 2003, when the Beagle 2 should have contacted NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft that was already in orbit. In the following days, the Lovell Telescope at Jodrell Bank also failed to pick up a signal from Beagle 2. The team said they were "still hopeful" of finding a successful return signal.

Attempts were made throughout January and February of 2004 to contact Beagle 2 using Mars Express. The first of these occurred on January 7, 2004, but ended in failure. Although regular calls were made, particular hope was placed on communication occurring on January 12, when Beagle 2 was pre-programmed to expect the Mars Express probe to fly overhead, and on the February 2, when the probe was supposed to resort to the last communication back-up mode: Autotransmit. However, no communication was established with Beagle 2.

On December 31, 2003, it was reported that a crater was photographed in the center of the target landing site. It is possible that this could be the final resting place of Beagle 2, the craft unable to transmit from the shadow of the crater walls.

Beagle 2 was declared lost on February 6, 2004, by the Beagle 2 Management Board. On February 11, ESA announced an inquiry would be held into the failure of Beagle 2.

Professor David Southwood, ESA's director of science, listed the following scenarios how the landing might have failed:

* Beagle entered an atmosphere that was not predicted by scientists and could have burnt up. It may even have "bounced off into space";
* the probe's parachute or cushioning airbags failed to deploy or deployed at the wrong time;
* Beagle's backshell tangled with the parachute preventing it from opening properly;
* Beagle became wrapped up in its airbags or parachute on the surface and could not open.

Search for the crash site

On December 20, 2005, Professor Pillinger released [2] specially-processed images from the Mars Global Surveyor which may suggest that Beagle 2 came down in a crater at the landing site on Isidis Planitia. It is claimed that the blurry images show the primary impact site as a dark patch, and, a short distance away, Beagle 2 surrounded by the deflated airbags and with its solar panels extended. Verification of this claim may come with the arrival of the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter at the planet in late 2006. (See also BBC analysis).

Put that in your pipe and smoke it.

[Stig]

Originally Posted by spoonage

I liked the end bit, where JC is a bit chuffed RE: Beagle 2 beating the Americans to Mars.

Beagle 2 was an unsuccessful British landing spacecraft that formed part of the European Space Agency's 2003 Mars Express mission.

Although the Beagle 2 craft successfully deployed from the Mars Express "mother ship", confirmation of a successful landing was not forthcoming. Confirmation should have come on 25 December 2003, when the Beagle 2 should have contacted NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft that was already in orbit. In the following days, the Lovell Telescope at Jodrell Bank also failed to pick up a signal from Beagle 2. The team said they were "still hopeful" of finding a successful return signal.

Attempts were made throughout January and February of 2004 to contact Beagle 2 using Mars Express. The first of these occurred on January 7, 2004, but ended in failure. Although regular calls were made, particular hope was placed on communication occurring on January 12, when Beagle 2 was pre-programmed to expect the Mars Express probe to fly overhead, and on the February 2, when the probe was supposed to resort to the last communication back-up mode: Autotransmit. However, no communication was established with Beagle 2.

On December 31, 2003, it was reported that a crater was photographed in the center of the target landing site. It is possible that this could be the final resting place of Beagle 2, the craft unable to transmit from the shadow of the crater walls.

Beagle 2 was declared lost on February 6, 2004, by the Beagle 2 Management Board. On February 11, ESA announced an inquiry would be held into the failure of Beagle 2.

Professor David Southwood, ESA's director of science, listed the following scenarios how the landing might have failed:

* Beagle entered an atmosphere that was not predicted by scientists and could have burnt up. It may even have "bounced off into space";
* the probe's parachute or cushioning airbags failed to deploy or deployed at the wrong time;
* Beagle's backshell tangled with the parachute preventing it from opening properly;
* Beagle became wrapped up in its airbags or parachute on the surface and could not open.

Search for the crash site

On December 20, 2005, Professor Pillinger released [2] specially-processed images from the Mars Global Surveyor which may suggest that Beagle 2 came down in a crater at the landing site on Isidis Planitia. It is claimed that the blurry images show the primary impact site as a dark patch, and, a short distance away, Beagle 2 surrounded by the deflated airbags and with its solar panels extended. Verification of this claim may come with the arrival of the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter at the planet in late 2006. (See also BBC analysis).

Put that in your pipe and smoke it.

Um...?

[spoonage]

Originally Posted by Stig

Um...?

What? At the end of the video, JC and the professor are talking about Beagle 2 beating the Americans when it lands at Christmas time, however, Beagle 2 crashed so the Americans won. :togo:

[347_XR8]

Ahhh... i loove the smell of a burning clutch in the morning