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My name’s on Mars now.

So a couple months ago I got an email from Nasa, and I thought why would I get an email from Nasa, but it was a reminder that this probe would land then and there. Took me awhile to figure it out but then it dawned on me that years and years ago I registered my name to Nasa to include on a data disc for that probe, just for fun. Turns out about 11 million people did that, so now my and almost 11 million other people’s names are on a data disc stuck to a probe riding around on Mars.