Mountaineering on Mars, Fenn and Kinna stop to enjoy a view.
See:
I did not know that there could be ice-clouds in a deeply blue sky on Mars but then I do not know very much about conditions on Mars. Poul Anderson must have made his description as accurate as he was able to at the time of writing. James Blish tried to do likewise in Welcome To Mars. (Also here.) (Scroll down.)
Kinna, born and bred on Mars and therefore a "Martian," with nearly every atom in her body from her home planet, loves that planet as it is now but also wants it to be terraformed. It will not change enormously in her lifetime, after all.
I have not mentioned the purpose of their mountaineering but we will maybe get to that after I have dealt with some other stuff. Retirement is not just about blogging.
Ad Martem.
4 comments:
Terraforming is good.
Furthermore, Mars was warmer, had a surface that was 50% ocean, and a thicker atmosphere a long time ago.
Science enables us to master nature -- which is 'red in tooth and claw'.
That was me...
So was there life and was it multi-cellular?
Kaor, Mr. Stirling and Paul!
Mr. Stirling: I love that idea, terraforming Mars! Which I hope will someday be achieved. You reminded me of the blue or green Mars mentioned in THE WINTER OF THE WORLD, set about eight or 10,000 years in our future.
Paul: The only way to find out for sure either way is for humans to actually go to Barsoom and really start digging deeply.
Ad astra! Sean
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