Wirt Atmar <[log in to unmask]> writes:

> While I tend to go on about the trivial, most of it nonetheless excites
me.
> In this general category of "who cares?", the Space Telescope Science
> Institute just released an hour ago nothing less than a spectacular image
of
> Mars taken from the orbiting Hubble space telescope. The image is at:
>
>      http://oposite.stsci.edu/pubinfo/pr/2001/24/
>
> Percival Lowell and Clyde Tombaugh would have loved to have seen this
> picture. And if they had, H.G. Wells would have never written his "War of
the
> Worlds," simply because the "canals" everyone imagined are clearly not
there.

Ah, but what a wonderful story we would have missed!

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