From: UFO UpDates - Toronto 
 for ; Mon, 23 Mar 1998 00:10:44 -0500 (EST)
From: Stig_Agermose@online.pol.dk (Stig Agermose)
To: updates@globalserve.net
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 00:52:50 +0100
Subject: Yemenis Claim Mars Based On Ancient Mythologies
>From the BBC's site. URL:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/despatches/newsid_67000/67814.stm
The links are preceded by stars.
*******
Sunday, March 22, 1998 Published at 13:23 GMT
Despatches
Yemenis claim Mars
Three men from Yemen have offered to sell land on Mars to interested
investors. The three claimed ownership of the planet last year in a law
suit filed against the American Space Agency NASA. The court did not
take them seriously but, as Barbara Plett reports, these innovative
entrepreneurs have not given up on their bizarre mission.
It's a bargain really - $2 a square metre for a plot of your own on the
red planet. The three men who claimed the right to sell the land handed
out the statements in mid-March assuring buyers they would be issued a
deed of ownership for their new property.
Newspapers quoted them saying there was a great deal of enthusiasm
since most poor Yemenis cannot afford a piece of land on planet Earth.
But observers who have been following the Mars drama since it began
dismissed the offer as, at best the latest antics of three eccentric
Yemenis on a lark, at worse an amateur scam to get rich quickly.
The self-proclaimed land holders have expanded on a failed court case
filed last July. At that time they accused NASA of trespassing on land
owned by their ancestors by exploring Mars with its Pathfinder space
craft.
They based their argument on mythologies of the Himyaritic and Sabaean
civilizations that existed several thousand years before Christ. Now
they say they have timed the announcement of their sale with the
anniversaries of several ancient cities and will use the money to
restore them.
Whatever their motives it's unlikely they will get more than a handful
of customers and it's even more unlikely customers will ever get
anything but a property deed.
Relevant Stories
20 Mar 98|World
*Chinese scientists researching probes for Mars exploration
14 Nov 97|World
*How Mars Hotted Up for Life
Internet Links
*NASA's Mars Pathfinder pages
The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites.
\_______________________________________________/
 __  __  _____  _____
/\ \/\ \/\  __\/\  __`\ Instant Archives at:
\ \ \ \ \ \ \_/\ \ \/\ \ http://www.ufomind.com/ufo/updates
 \ \ \ \ \ \  _\\ \ \ \ \ UFO UpDates - Toronto
  \ \ \_\ \ \ \/ \ \ \_\ \ updates@globalserve.net
   \ \_____\ \_\  \ \_____\ ++ 416-696-0145
    \/_____/\/_/   \/_____/  Operated by Errol Bruce-Knapp
  __  __          ____              __
 /\ \/\ \        /\  _ `\          /\ \__
 \ \ \ \ \  _____\ \ \/\ \     __  \ \ ,_\    __    ____
  \ \ \ \ \/\  __`\ \ \ \ \  / __ \ \ \ \/  /'__`\ /  __\
   \ \ \_\ \ \ \_\ \ \ \_\ \/\ \ \ \_\ \ \_/\  __//\__, `\
    \ \_____\ \  __/\ \____/\ \__/ \_\\ \__\ \____\/\____/
     \/_____/\ \ \   \/___/  \/__/\/_/ \/__/\/____/\/___/
       +-+-+-+\ \_\+-+-+-+ +-+-+ +-+-+-+-+ +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
       |T|h|e| \/_/|E|-|M|a|i|l| |L|i|s|t| |S|e|r|v|i|c|e|
       +-+-+-+     +-+-+-+ +-+-+ +-+-+-+-+ +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
--- FMail 1.22
---------------