Re: [Vo]:Bizarre implications

2022-01-11 Thread Terry Blanton
On Tue, Jan 11, 2022 at 2:42 PM Jones Beene wrote: > Truth is sometimes stranger than fiction but nuking Mars is beyond nutty... > I don't know about that. Kim Stanley Robinson seemed to have a viable plan to use nukes to terraform Mars in his trilogy: *Red Mars*, *Green* *Mars* and *Blue

Re: [Vo]:Bizarre implications

2022-01-11 Thread Jones Beene
LOL - Maybe the backstory is that there was a real Star Wars in a galaxy far,far away and Mars was peripheral damage ?  Another strained coincidence behind this bit of  "lockdown lunacy" is the description of the nuke in the paper, which seems to roughly match the Oumuamua "asteroid" of a few

Re: [Vo]:Bizarre implications

2022-01-11 Thread MSF
I liked PKD's original titles better. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, We Can Remember It for You Wholesale, and so on.

Re: [Vo]:Bizarre implications

2022-01-11 Thread MSF
I think we are all suffering from Lockdown Lunacy. Yes, PKD's stuff is highly imaginative; too bad he didn't live to see all the movies made from his stories. The guy barely made a living while he was alive. Conversely, ERB bought up what is now a large part of Los Angeles (Tarzana). ‐‐‐

Re: [Vo]:Bizarre implications

2022-01-11 Thread Jones Beene
... not to mention PKD's fabulous story: "Total Recall" which has the further subplot of implanted memory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_Recall_(1990_film)#Reality_or_fantasy MSF wrote: So it looks as if Edgar Rice Burroughs was right. We should rename the place Barsoom and see

Re: [Vo]:Bizarre implications

2022-01-11 Thread MSF
So it looks as if Edgar Rice Burroughs was right. We should rename the place Barsoom and see if we can find John Carter's tomb :-) ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Tuesday, January 11th, 2022 at 3:35 PM, Jones Beene wrote: > Ancient history of Mars? > >

[Vo]:Bizarre implications

2022-01-11 Thread Jones Beene
Ancient history of Mars? https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2015/eposter/2660.pdf Maybe Elon, a suspected alien himself - knows a few things that we don't even begin to comprehend :-)