Author: Eugene Nalimov
Date: 23:38:24 12/04/99
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You can also count Russian stations... 2 Foboses and one (don't remember it's name) lost recently. And, BTW, one of the Foboses was lost due to the bug in onboard software. Eugene On December 05, 1999 at 00:43:40, William Bryant wrote: >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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