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Subject: Re: Mars 2, Earth 0

Author: William Bryant

Date: 21:43:40 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.)


Actually,
  If I'm not mistaken, this is number three to go bad.  Two recently, and one
in the not to distant pass.  So, following the initial Mars lander, we have been
doing poorly lately.  Score +1 =0 -3.

William
wbryant@ix.netcom.com



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