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    Bech On Mars: John Updike Considers The Red Planet

    Stairway into a Martian Crater

    The Texture of Martian Geography

    Mystery of the Off-Center Martian Ice Cap

    The Frozen Waterfalls of Mars

    Flying Into The Gaping Maw Of Mars

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    Image of lightninglouie lightninglouie
    12/15/08

    In reply to Bech On Mars: John Updike Considers The Red Planet
    Didn't Carl Sagan also believe that the Martian moon of Phobos was possibly a hollow artificial satellite? That sounds like a much more interesting premise than Contact.
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    Image of lightninglouie lightninglouie
    12/15/08

    In reply to Bech On Mars: John Updike Considers The Red Planet
    "No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised and studied, matted on cardstock, and placed on lignin-free paper with decorative rub-on enhancements and old Doobie Brothers ticket stubs, gently applied with a Popsicle stick."


    --From H.G. Wells' lost first draft of The War of the Worlds

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    Image of Charlie Jane Anders Charlie Jane Anders
    12/15/08

    @lightninglouie: Bwa ha ha!
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    Image of Daveinva Daveinva
    12/15/08

    In reply to Bech On Mars: John Updike Considers The Red Planet
    "Did you know that Carl Sagan believed "polar bear-sized creatures" could be roaming the Martian surface, as late as 1965?"


    Did you know that I believed that as late as this morning?


    True story.

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    Image of choptop choptop
    12/15/08

    @Daveinva: Never stop believing.
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    Image of lightninglouie lightninglouie
    12/15/08

    @choptop: Hold on to that fee-eee-eee-ling.
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    12/15/08

    In reply to Bech On Mars: John Updike Considers The Red Planet
    Rabbit on Mars
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    Image of 92BuickLeSabre 92BuickLeSabre
    12/15/08

    @Grey_Area: So after years of harboring some unshakable hope that there is something particular and unique about Mars, it has turned out that our deepest insecurities were correct, and Mars just isn't all that special or interesting after all?
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    12/15/08

    @92BuickLeSabre: Nope, just drier and duller.
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    Image of 92BuickLeSabre 92BuickLeSabre
    12/15/08

    In reply to Bech On Mars: John Updike Considers The Red Planet
    Marsnik will be the name of my next child.
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    Image of JesusDeSaad JesusDeSaad
    12/09/08

    In reply to Stairway into a Martian Crater
    they're rice paddies you idiots! :P
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    12/09/08

    @JesusDeSaad: My Asian heritage protests. Rice paddies are not blue. They, obviously, are red.
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    Image of PatrickJibsheet PatrickJibsheet
    12/09/08

    In reply to Stairway into a Martian Crater
    Can you give the link where you got this from? I'd like to read more about it.
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    Image of Annalee Newitz Annalee Newitz
    12/09/08

    @PatrickJibsheet: It's from NASA, but I got it from the Associated Press subscription site. You can easily find out more here: [marsprogram.jpl.nasa.gov]
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    12/09/08

    In reply to Stairway into a Martian Crater
    I love how this is tagged "space porn". Awww yeah, watch that sedentary action!
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    Image of gods-n-clods gods-n-clods
    11/20/08

    In reply to The Texture of Martian Geography
    I found super-hi res versions of these images, saved them, and use them as textures/channels in Photoshop.

    Proper zombie skin and distressed effects!
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    Image of Meirelle Meirelle
    11/20/08

    @gods-n-clods: link please?
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    Image of X: The Eliminator X: The Eliminator
    11/20/08

    In reply to The Texture of Martian Geography
    just staring at the victoria crater image and it really struck me.


    that's another WORLD.


    not some california stand-in, nowhere on earth. another world.


    it probably has more to do with me reading 'out of the silent planet' right now.

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    Image of RAHfanboy RAHfanboy
    11/20/08

    @X: The Eliminator: Great book.
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    Image of Meirelle Meirelle
    11/20/08

    @X: The Eliminator: I know. My favorite Mars picture of all time is this one: [marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov]


    There's something about the sunset that looks so earthlike, yet so alien. I love it! And it's in true color, which helps.

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    Image of Gann Gann
    11/20/08

    In reply to The Texture of Martian Geography
    Beautiful. I love the organic texture of the land totally untouched (well, almost) by human influence. I wonder what it will look like in 1000 years. My guess would be something like Dubai.
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    Image of tetracycloide tetracycloide
    11/20/08

    @Gann: don't be absurd. mar's gravity is significantly less than earth's so the structures will be much much taller.
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