From: Surfing The Apocalypse <onelist@surfingtheapocalypse.com>
Date: Thu Jun 8, 2000 10:52am
Subject: 'MARTIANS' ARAB HEIRS FIGHT NASA OVER PATHFINDER SPACECRAFT

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'MARTIANS' ARAB HEIRS FIGHT NASA OVER PATHFINDER SPACECRAFT
Yemeni Men File Lawsuit Against NASA 'To Prevent It Revealing Any More
Details About Conditions On Mars."

http://reagan.com/HotTopics.main/HotMike/document-7.25.1997.0.html

London Telegraph Reports "Martians' Arab heirs fight NASA over
Pathfinder Spacecraft"

London Telegraph Reports "Martians' Arab heirs fight NASA over
Pathfinder Spacecraft"
Yemeni Men Claim They Own Mars, Their Ancestral Home
Aisling Irwin, the London Telegraph Science Correspondent, reported
Wednesday that a lawsuit has been filed against NASA "to prevent it
revealing any more details about conditions on Mars."

It seems that three men, from Yemen claim that they own Mars and that
their permission should have been sought by NASA before the US
Pathfinder spacecraft landed on July 4 and released a buggy called
Sojourner which has been testing the planet's rocks and soil, sending
back photos which reveal a landscape as inhospitable as the Arizona
desert.

The Yemeni men, Adam Ismail, Mustafa Khalil and Abdullah al-Umari say,
apparently with a straight face, that Mars was the home of their
ancestors thousands of years ago, the Al-Thawn weekly newspaper
reported.

The men want NASA to suspend releasing the results of any further
explorations, and any information about the Martian atmosphere, surface
or gravity, until the court case is over. In documents presented to
Yemen's prosecutor general, the men claimed: "We inherited the planet
from our ancestors who lived on it 3,000 years ago."

Just think. If we Americans had known about this sooner we could have
save millions of dollars. Instead of sending Pathfinder to Mars, we
could have just asked Adam, Mustaf and Abdullah to tell us all about
their ancestral home.

In spite of this remarkable revelation, the Telegraph observed, "NASA
showed no sign of suspending its activities yesterday announcing that
the soil on Mars is made up of a silt that is finer than talcum powder."