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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Well, NASA just reported that they have lost
contact with Spirit. And this on the same day that I had read that they may have
landed in mud! Why is it that every time we think we have found something
extraordinary, the probes fail? Is it the Martians?</FONT></DIV>
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