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I thought: "There's a lot of jade on Mars!"
Then I realised that this image:
http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/2...stcard_edr.jpg was "false color" - I had to take a second look though. |
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I thought: "There's a lot of jade on Mars!"
On May 26, 12:12 pm, "Alan Erskine" wrote:
Then I realised that this image:http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/2...or_postcard_ed... was "false color" - I had to take a second look though. They're just rocks. Mars rocks. Right now they're worth billions, but in the near future they'll be a dime a dozen in the giveaway box at garage sales. |
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I thought: "There's a lot of jade on Mars!"
Alan Erskine wrote: Then I realised that this image: http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/2...stcard_edr.jpg was "false color" - I had to take a second look though. OMG! It's green! It's the Andromeda Strain! Forget that sample return mission right now! ;-) NASA Watch has a set of photos showing the similarity between the Phoenix terrain and the terrain at Devon Island, which is pretty striking: http://www.nasawatch.com/archives/20...u_on_mars.html Pat |
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I thought: "There's a lot of jade on Mars!"
On Mon, 26 May 2008 22:19:33 -0500, Pat Flannery
wrote: OMG! It's green! It's the Andromeda Strain! Forget that sample return mission right now! ;-) ....You know, ir *does* have that same fake-looking green paint tinge to it, doesn't it? Just like the copper colored mesh had inside the Scoop VII containment canister! OM -- ]=====================================[ ] OMBlog - http://www.io.com/~o_m/omworld [ ] Let's face it: Sometimes you *need* [ ] an obnoxious opinion in your day! [ ]=====================================[ |
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I thought: "There's a lot of jade on Mars!"
On Tue, 27 May 2008 02:03:54 -0500, OM
wrote: On Mon, 26 May 2008 22:19:33 -0500, Pat Flannery wrote: OMG! It's green! It's the Andromeda Strain! Forget that sample return mission right now! ;-) ...You know, ir *does* have that same fake-looking green paint tinge to it, doesn't it? Just like the copper colored mesh had inside the Scoop VII containment canister!' ....Which reminde me - a warning to everyone out there about the "Andromeda Strain" remake. Unless you're a masochist, don't watch it. Remember a few years back when we discussed whether it was in fact a biological weapon of containment - i.e., destroy all the gaskets so space travel is made way too difficult because resealable hatches were made almost impossible? Well, this remake takes that one step further into absurdity as well as making the damn thing intelligent. If Jack Kirby were alive, he'd be ****ed over "Morticoccus" being ripped off... OM -- ]=====================================[ ] OMBlog - http://www.io.com/~o_m/omworld [ ] Let's face it: Sometimes you *need* [ ] an obnoxious opinion in your day! [ ]=====================================[ |
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I thought: "There's a lot of jade on Mars!"
OM wrote: ...You know, ir *does* have that same fake-looking green paint tinge to it, doesn't it? Just like the copper colored mesh had inside the Scoop VII containment canister! Watching the A&E remake? There's another remake that didn't need to be made...they are using it to advertise the "Get Smart" movie, which is yet another thing that didn't have to be redone. Pat |
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I thought: "There's a lot of jade on Mars!"
"Pat Flannery" wrote in message
elephone... OM wrote: ...You know, ir *does* have that same fake-looking green paint tinge to it, doesn't it? Just like the copper colored mesh had inside the Scoop VII containment canister! Watching the A&E remake? There's another remake that didn't need to be made...they are using it to advertise the "Get Smart" movie, which is yet another thing that didn't have to be redone. I call them Copywood movies - Copywood is the generation of producers, directors and writers who haven't got enough imagination to come up with something original, so they copy other people's work. Copywood. |
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I thought: "There's a lot of jade on Mars!"
"OM" wrote in message ... On Tue, 27 May 2008 02:03:54 -0500, OM wrote: ...Which reminde me - a warning to everyone out there about the "Andromeda Strain" remake. Unless you're a masochist, don't watch it. Remember a few years back when we discussed whether it was in fact a biological weapon of containment - i.e., destroy all the gaskets so space travel is made way too difficult because resealable hatches were made almost impossible? Well, this remake takes that one step further into absurdity as well as making the damn thing intelligent. If Jack Kirby were alive, he'd be ****ed over "Morticoccus" being ripped off... This is the text of a comment I sent to A&E Tuesday night. (Name deleted in closing) ".........................Shortly after 9/11 you had a music show on that featured a Jamaican singing a anti-war song. This was so inappropiate that I promptly blocked your channel on my television. A&E stayed blocked until that television died of old age, and I was forced to buy another. Having forgotten about A&E, I did not block it....until this evening. Having read "The Andromeda Strain" over 20 years ago and having seen the original movie from time to time on television, I actually looked forward to seeing the remake. Monday night (Memorial Day Evening) I put up with the constant "Military: Bad, Pacifist Libreal Reporters: Good" slant of this regurgetated Micheal Moore propaganda. Tuesday evening about 30 minutes into this shameful rewriting of a Micheal Crichton novel, the Ricky Schroder character came out of the closet, in forced dialog that sounds as if it had been added in order to appease the homosexual lobby. It had nothing to do with the plot. It was just kinda dropped into the story like a cow patty, with a bit of dialog concerning how unfair it was that the military did not love homosexuals. I know that homosexuals exist. I work with some myself. OK people as far as I am concerned, But WTH? Why was this inserted here?! As I typed earlier, your channel is now blocked again. I did not see the last hour and half of this show, and do not really think I missed much. Your ex-viewer ****************................" |
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I thought: "There's a lot of jade on Mars!"
On Tue, 27 May 2008 22:13:38 -0500, "DR SMITH"
wrote: I put up with the constant "Military: Bad, Pacifist Libreal Reporters: Good" slant of this regurgetated Micheal Moore propaganda. ....Actually, what ****ed me off more - no pun intended - wasn't the anti-military slant, but the bull**** about Andromeda being sent from the future so that we could destroy it. I honestly wonder what Crichton had to say when he read that script. ....As for the bit about making Ricky "Silver Spoon" Schroeder gay and all that, while I did applaud the attempt to add racial diversity to the Wildfire team, they could have simply kept Ruth Levitt as she was in the original film and filled that particular minority slot. OM -- ]=====================================[ ] OMBlog - http://www.io.com/~o_m/omworld [ ] Let's face it: Sometimes you *need* [ ] an obnoxious opinion in your day! [ ]=====================================[ |
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I thought: "There's a lot of jade on Mars!"
On Tue, 27 May 2008 13:06:44 -0500, Pat Flannery
wrote: Watching the A&E remake? ....Saw it the night I got home with "Stumpy", thanks to the usual sources. Talk about pathetic remakes, especially the set design. There's not a single bio lab in the world that uses those "electric blue" lighting schemes - hell, even most discos have dropped them! But what turned me off were the asinine additions to the plot and backstory. Andromeda being an intelligent virus from the future? Give me a frackin' break. There's another remake that didn't need to be made...they are using it to advertise the "Get Smart" movie, which is yet another thing that didn't have to be redone. ....On the other hand, Mel Brooks has given the movie his blessing. Either that was part of the royalties deal, or he really *does* like it. OM -- ]=====================================[ ] OMBlog - http://www.io.com/~o_m/omworld [ ] Let's face it: Sometimes you *need* [ ] an obnoxious opinion in your day! [ ]=====================================[ |
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