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What you missed: Martians, Communists, and the people in your neighborhood

The Friday Pillar Post

Ed. Condon
Feb 19, 2021
∙ Paid

Happy Friday friends,

Yesterday, NASA landed the rover Perseverance on Mars; the craft plunged safely (whatever that looks like) into the surface after a 6 month, 292 million mile trip from Earth. 

I have no idea what it will do now it’s there. It will probably start rolling timidly along collecting samples, like some kind of mechanised Victorian nurse. O…

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