Author: Marc Plum
Date: 17:56:14 12/04/99
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On December 04, 1999 at 20:44:20, Mark Ryan wrote: >Greetings from my planet: > >That big computer "chess" match in space seems to be going badly for us >Earthlings. Ten weeks ago, the Mars Climate Orbiter was lost; and now, the Mars >Polar Lander is hesitant (if not dead). So Hollywood made the wrong movie: >instead of "Mars Attacks !", they should have made "Mars Defends !" > >Clearly the Martians have refuted our hypermodern Spaceship-to-Planet-Four >opening line. Maybe we should switch back to the classical >Astronaut-to-Moon-One theory. > >Cheers, >Mark >(It's Saturday night and I'm bored.) I believe the problem has been traced. Apparently Lockheed provided an opening book using English descriptive notation, and the lander could only read figurine algebraic. Marc
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