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Old May 26th 08, 06:12 PM posted to sci.space.history
Alan Erskine[_2_]
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Default 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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Old May 26th 08, 06:25 PM posted to sci.space.history
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Default 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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Old May 27th 08, 04:19 AM posted to sci.space.history
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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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Old May 27th 08, 08:03 AM posted to sci.space.history
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On Mon, 26 May 2008 22:19:33 -0500, Pat Flannery
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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!

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On Tue, 27 May 2008 02:03:54 -0500, OM
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On Mon, 26 May 2008 22:19:33 -0500, Pat Flannery
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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...

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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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Old May 27th 08, 08:46 PM posted to sci.space.history
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"Pat Flannery" wrote in message
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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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Old May 28th 08, 04:13 AM posted to sci.space.history
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"OM" wrote in message
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On Tue, 27 May 2008 02:03:54 -0500, OM
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...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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Old May 28th 08, 07:23 AM posted to sci.space.history
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On Tue, 27 May 2008 22:13:38 -0500, "DR SMITH"
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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.

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Old May 28th 08, 07:29 AM posted to sci.space.history
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On Tue, 27 May 2008 13:06:44 -0500, Pat Flannery
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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.

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