MARTIAN NEWS - DATE 12004.0419
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MARTIAN NEWS NOW AVAILABLE ON EARTH

It has come to our attention that our legendary Martian News service is now available on Earth.

One of our secret reporters on the planet recently noticed a detailed summary of the last half-century of our news reports on the Earth computer network called the "Internet". It had apparently been compiled and translated by a mysterious character called "Elwood Herring". Quite how he has managed to gather this information and translate it into the most common Earth language of English is a mystery, especially as Earth inhabitants as a whole still have no idea that there is any intelligent life outside their own atmosphere.

As we have stated before, the Humans of Earth have only recently advanced to a stage 3 civilisation, and are as yet not entitled to receive our transmissions. We can however safely assume that Mr. Herring's reports will generally be considered as pure fantasy by the tiny minority that actually come across them, and no action will be taken regarding this curiosity. His "website" will nevertheless be monitored closely.

Translated from original Martian by Elwood Herring (Oops, they're on to me!)
© P. Williams 2004

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