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Scientist's Saturn Experiment Forgotten During Landing

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someone pulled a Homer. I feel terrible for this guy.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6849885/

SPOKANE, Wash. - David Atkinson spent 18 years designing an experiment for the unmanned space mission to Saturn. Now some pieces of it are lost in space. Someone forgot to turn on the instrument Atkinson needed to measure the winds on Saturn's largest moon.

"The story is actually fairly gruesome," the University of Idaho scientist said in an e-mail from Germany, the headquarters of the European Space Agency. "It was human error -- the command to turn the instrument on was forgotten."
 
That link doesn't work for me - I get an HTML file consisting of exactly:

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/Simpsons geek mode on

The phrase 'Pulling a Homer' was used in episode 5, 3rd season thusly:

1. Homer \noun\
1. American Bonehead
2. Pull a Homer -- to succeed despite idiocy

"Looks like I just pulled a Homer!"
(Magic Johnson after slipping on water and having the ball fly out of his hands, off a ref's head, and into the basket for the game winning three pointer)

....And so is not applicable in this case, where the scientist has failed because of idiocy.

/Simpsons geek mode off

(Edited with thanks to the Urbandictionary.com)
 
Underemployed said:
/Simpsons geek mode on

The phrase 'Pulling a Homer' was used in episode 5, 3rd season thusly:

1. Homer \noun\
1. American Bonehead
2. Pull a Homer -- to succeed despite idiocy

"Looks like I just pulled a Homer!"
(Magic Johnson after slipping on water and having the ball fly out of his hands, off a ref's head, and into the basket for the game winning three pointer)

....And so is not applicable in this case, where the scientist has failed because of idiocy.

/Simpsons geek mode off

(Edited with thanks to the Urbandictionary.com)
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What's a diorama?
 
Ah, but now there's this... :D

SPOKANE — The head of the space probe mission to Titan said today that much of the data from a botched experiment designed by a University of Idaho professor was recovered by radio telescopes on Earth.

Huygens mission manager Jean-Pierre Lebreton said in Paris that analysis of the data from the Doppler Wind Experiment will take longer than previously expected because of the glitch.

"All of the scientific objectives of DWE are going to be made from the ground," Lebreton said in a telephone interview. "We got a good signal which could be detected on the Earth."

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2002157092_websaturn21.html
 
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