more on "staging"

[Joel S. Berson]

At 8/17/2012 01:16 PM, Laurence Horn wrote:
>On Aug 17, 2012, at 1:03 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>
> > Did they stage the later landings too?
> >
> > Could they be that devious?
> >
> > JL
>
>Well, there's all that lunar-landscapy desert
>out west, and all those black helicopters, and
>you know what THEY are capable of


And I've just remembered that a NASA spokesperson
observed that the area of Mars where Discovery
landed looks like a southwestern U.S.
stage.  (Well, he didn't say "stage" as far as I
remember, but the sense was there.)  Which oater
he was thinking of I don't know.

Joel

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