“We have your satellite. If you want it back send 20 billion in Martian money. No funny business or you will never see it again.”

– A joke reportedly written on a wall in a hall at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab, California, after losing contact with the Mars Polar Lander in December 1999.

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