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[email protected] John O’Halloran: (photo) 15 Editorial Notes by Mike Glyer Rich Lynch in China: Did you know that the File 770 blog is Sending My Name to Mars: I unhesitatingly and unthinkingly added blocked by the Great Firewall of China? my name to a list being sent on a microchip to Mars aboard the Mars Rich sent an e-mailed to tell me about this interesting discovery – Science Laboratory rover. That’s the only way to go. If I stopped and “I’m in the People’s Republic of China on a business trip all this week thought about it at all, why would I do it? and discovered that the F770 website is blocked over here! I didn’t Will anybody ever find that chip? Why would anybody read it if realize that you were such a subversive!” they did? And since earthbound operating systems change all the time, Now you know.