Quote:"There aren't really any canals on Mars."
Having read so many old SF stories from the 50s and 60s, including Tom Corbett, I really want to see a Grand Canal on Mars....
"A-yup."
"Because there's no water."
"A-yup."
"But the terraforming project's going to cover a quarter of the planet with water. Or more."
"A-yup."
"Including this really big rift valley we're standing beside."
"A-yup."
"Okay, we build here, and we'll call this the Grand Canal once it's filled with water."
"O-kay."
And thus was it decided to build Helium near the edge of the Valles Marineris...
-Rob Kelk
"Read Or Die: not so much a title as a way of life." - Justin Palmer, 6 June 2007
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012