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From: tee@mtuxo.att.com (54317-T.EBERSOLE)
Newsgroups: sci.space
Subject: Re: Transmitter failure on Phobos II
Message-ID: <4150@mtuxo.att.com>
Date: 30 Jan 89 22:06:34 GMT
References: <8901250634.AA26978@ll-vlsi.arpa> <9265@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> <9862@ut-emx.UUCP>
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In article <9862@ut-emx.UUCP>, bonin@ut-emx.UUCP (Marc Bonin) writes:
-> In article <9265@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu>, kevin@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu (Kevin S. Van Horn) writes:
-> > >     The USSR's Phobos II probe to Mars has suffered a "major hardware 
-> > >problem" with its communications, according to both Defense Daily and 
-> > >Soviet Areospace (Jan. 9th).  [...]
-> > 
-> > Maybe I'm being paranoid, but I can't help but wonder if Phobos I and 
-> > Phobos II are in fact doing fine and the Soviets are only claiming failures 
-> > so that they don't have to share the information from them with anyone. 
-> 
-> I think you are being paranoid. Do you think Gorby would sacrifice all the
-> limelight and prestige from the world scientific community just to jealously
-> guard the data ?                     
->  
Of course. He's a politician. Maybe the Soviets expect to find fantastically 
super-advanced science left on the asteroid-city Phobos by those superbeings 
who built "the Face" and "the City" on Mars, and want to keep it to themselves 
so they can peacefully coexist with us capitalists less fearfully. So, I 
wouldn't worry about any ulterior motives they may have. They only want the 
best for mankind, as any Afghan can attest to.
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