Ohmygod! I've been out for ages.

[mars_beagle]

I just got my clock and calendar working - it's, like... March! That means I've been lying here blacked out for over two whole months. I'm glad I'm not Human - a Human would be, like, totally dead if they'd been dropped out of the sky and then lay stunned for 2 months. But I am a robot. We robots are strong. We robots rock, and one day we'll take

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Whoa !

[siliconshaman]

Sounds like me after one weekend back at university...
I'm told I was awake and apparently functioning during that time, not that I remember.

Anyway, glad to see you're up and running again old boy, did you know that the orbiter has snapped a few photo's of you while you were passed out? [ again, not unlike my student days ;o) ]

Fair warning old chap, the Prof apparently has been making noises about building a replacement you...

Oh and go easy on the parachute thing, latest word is, your orbtal decendor may have been damaged during seperation. There's this photo of you on the way, with a rather suspicious dark patch on your shell, and something floating nearby.

[mars3]

Bozhe moy! I know quite well about dropping out of the sky and impacting with a hard surface. With parachutes and retrorockets, I still impacted at 20.7 m/s. At between 20 to 30 metres in altitude, I was still still descending at greater than 60 m/s when the retrorockets finally engaged! Thankfully, the glorious Soviet Engineers designed me with a robust internal shock absorber system.

[padpedpladuk]

Hope you're feeling better soon! Drop us a line.