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 Mission to find lemmings on Mars suffers new setback 4 Jan 2004 The mission to find lemmings on Mars suffered a further setback today when a NASA probe landed on the red planet. Scientists from the European Space Agency had sent a probe to Mars, which arrived on Christmas Day, in the hope of discovering evidence of lemmings on the planet. However, they have so far failed to make contact with it and it is thought that the probe, Lemming 2, might have fallen off a cliff. "We thought that deploying a giant robotic lemming to Mars would be the best way of making contact with any lemmings on the planet, because they would have something in common," said Professor Gregory T Mullet, one of the British members of the team. "But, like real lemmings, our lemming doesn't respond well to cliffs. We haven't lost all hope yet, but if it has indeed fallen off a cliff without deploying its parachute then I'm afraid it might be game over." However, Professor Mullet says that the NASA probe, a giant robotic dog called Rover, could further lessen Lemming 2's chances of finding other lemmings. "Lemmings do not like dogs, it's a scientific fact," he told DeadBrain. "If there are any lemmings on Mars they will be scared and run from the NASA dog. It will never find them, it's a complete waste of time." "This could be much more serious, though," he warned. "If the lemmings run headlong towards cliffs – and there are plenty of those on Mars – then we could be looking at a case of planetary extinction of a whole species. The NASA scientists are being totally irresponsible, and it's not fair that their probe works and ours doesn't." A NASA spokesman said that the agency had taken precautions in case the probe came across any Martian lemmings. Related Articles US probe lands on Mars, begins search for WMD 4 Jan 2004
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