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Subject: Re: Mars 2, Earth 0

Author: Pete Galati

Date: 04:51:01 12/05/99

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On December 05, 1999 at 02:38:24, Eugene Nalimov wrote:

>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

Russia must have bought some of Microsoft's not very well tested Space-Suite
software, they had good comercials, I didn't have a use for it myself though.

Pete

>
>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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