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	The Real Mars Story
	Hi all, nice to be back. To answer your questions about the Mars lander, the "official" story is that the computer miscalculated the landing coordinates, and cut the retro rockets too soon, the cause of this being simple human error. While this would seem to be a plausible explanation, it is far from the truth. Here's the real story: Ensoniq is actually responsible for the crash. Ensoniq had a hand in designing the funky interface (the new one is Red with black pads and backlit display and Essentials buttons) they all love the use at Mission Control. What happened was Mission Control received an Alert or Error that they didn't understand: "SORRY! AN UNEXPECTED EVENT 31 HAS OCCURED" Emails were fired off to Ensoniq wondering what the hell is up with that, but Customer Service was too late in replying. Mission Control was forced to act on its own, and try and interpret this bizarre message. In order to interpret subspace transmissions, a low frequency oscillator is used as a carrier wave for the higher frequency audio and data transmissions on top. Because Ensoniq had also given the wrong specs for the on-board memory chips (non-EDO) on the lander, there was insufficient and faulty memory to store all the needed data for calculating the exact course corrections. Because the wrong chips were installed, the data and audio transmissions also experienced severe digital degradation during transfer, of which no amount of over or re-sampling could recover. I invite you all to consider this explanation as plausible. My Saturnian brothers, The Phoebians had tried to correct the problem through 7th Dimension scsi chain directly into the onboard cpu, but since the Ensoniq OS on board was not in any form of open code, even our best could not decipher it in time. We tried flashing the OS, but since 4.0 was not yet available (despite claims by Ensoniq that it would be), this was of no avail. We did our best, but the obstacles were too many. It is our recommendation that in the future, the Mars missions use a much more reliable product, such as Casio or Farfisa to get the job done properly - or at least to finish beta testing before launch. All the best, Unkhakook. Contact info for Unkhakook: [email protected]

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