SAGAN LANDING SITE BEGINS BROADCASTING AGAIN!

Sagan Clone alive on Red Planet

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Scientists at JPL last night confirmed that the Mars Lander, thought to have expended it's batteries months ago, has come back on the air and is broadcasting again. Engineers stared incredulously at NASA TV monitors as images of Carl Sagan clones beamed back at the lander's camera.

"This answers the question of embryo/clone viability in micro-atmosphere conditions" announced Dr. Elizabeth McCoy of NASA's Ames Research Center.

The question on everyones mind was how the lander had enough electrical power to transmit again after the batteries went dead 3 months ago. This was answered when a Dr. Sagan Clone, using sign language, as no audio channel had ever existed on the lander transponder, pointed to a device that appeared to be a windmill, it's vanes fashioned from the large metal "petals" of the landing craft. The vanes, which rotate during Martian windstorms, are connected to the 6 small motors that were once the motive power of the Rover and are now driven by the familar "motor-generator" effect to produce sufficient DC current to recharge the main power cells of the spacecraft.

"Damn that was clever! This has to be the "Energizer Bunny" of space missions!" commented Dr. Emelio Lazardo at JPL.

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"So far we have three Sagan's near the Lander - if this continues there could be dozens of Sagans in a week, millions in a few months and within only a year the entire Martian surface could be covered with "billions and billions" of Carl Sagan clones." Dr. Paul Krensky

Stay tuned. Watch the skies. Russell R. Robinson, Mountain View, California. Busybee@WidgetMagic.com

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