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40 years ago today the US govt sent a taxpayer-funded robot to invade an alien hostile world

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Alternative 3 (and Capricorn One)

What I remember was a brilliantly executed UK TV programme called "Alternative 3". Billed as a "documentary" it followed a story about scientists involved in the Mars mission going missing and ended with a "classified" film clip that showed something scuttling under the Martian surface when Viking landed.

I was 11 at the time, so thought it was real ....

And the fact and fiction loosely danced in "CapricornOne"

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