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o/t mars closest to earth than it's ever been before
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tinx
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I was looking at MArs last night through a telescope and altohugh it was still just a blob, you could see the polar ice caps and the atmosphere around mars and it was an orange blob instead of a dot on the screen, quite exciting really.
THe missus is a mad astronomer so she thought it was amazing.
THe missus is a mad astronomer so she thought it was amazing.
London Calling
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I saw Mars last night in gloomy London before the clouds gobbled it up
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In this century, we know the aliens arrived on the east coast of the United States in late October of 1938 on a reconnaissance mission.
It is still a matter of wonder how the Martians are able to slay men so swiftly and so silently. Many think that in some way they are able to generate an intense heat in a chamber of practically absolute non-conductivity. This intense heat they project in a parallel beam against any object they choose, by means of a polished parabolic mirror of unknown composition, much as the parabolic mirror of a lighthouse projects a beam of light. But no one has absolutely proved these details. However it is done, it is certain that a beam of heat is the essence of the matter. Heat, and invisible, instead of visible, light. Whatever is combustible flashes into flame at its touch, lead runs like water, it softens iron, cracks and melts glass, and when it falls upon water, incontinently that explodes into steam.
That night nearly forty people lay under the starlight about the pit, charred and distorted beyond recognition, and all night long the common from Horsell to Maybury was deserted and brightly ablaze.
The news of the massacre probably reached Chobham, Woking, and Ottershaw about the same time. In Woking the shops had closed when the tragedy happened, and a number of people, shop people and so forth, attracted by the stories they had heard, were walking over the Horsell Bridge and along the road between the hedges that runs out at last upon the common. You may imagine the young people brushed up after the labours of the day, and making this novelty, as they would make any novelty, the excuse for walking together and enjoying a trivial flirtation. You may figure to yourself the hum of voices along the road in the gloaming....
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It is still a matter of wonder how the Martians are able to slay men so swiftly and so silently. Many think that in some way they are able to generate an intense heat in a chamber of practically absolute non-conductivity. This intense heat they project in a parallel beam against any object they choose, by means of a polished parabolic mirror of unknown composition, much as the parabolic mirror of a lighthouse projects a beam of light. But no one has absolutely proved these details. However it is done, it is certain that a beam of heat is the essence of the matter. Heat, and invisible, instead of visible, light. Whatever is combustible flashes into flame at its touch, lead runs like water, it softens iron, cracks and melts glass, and when it falls upon water, incontinently that explodes into steam.
That night nearly forty people lay under the starlight about the pit, charred and distorted beyond recognition, and all night long the common from Horsell to Maybury was deserted and brightly ablaze.
The news of the massacre probably reached Chobham, Woking, and Ottershaw about the same time. In Woking the shops had closed when the tragedy happened, and a number of people, shop people and so forth, attracted by the stories they had heard, were walking over the Horsell Bridge and along the road between the hedges that runs out at last upon the common. You may imagine the young people brushed up after the labours of the day, and making this novelty, as they would make any novelty, the excuse for walking together and enjoying a trivial flirtation. You may figure to yourself the hum of voices along the road in the gloaming....
http://www.fourmilab.ch/etexts/www/warworlds/b1c6.html
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Muzzman
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I hope Earnshaw doesn't miss this narrow window of oppertunity to get back home 
I think yorkie because the orbit is wibbly wobbly?? or something like that...
I saw it last night though - was very pinkish to say the least - or was that my cider goggles on
I saw it last night though - was very pinkish to say the least - or was that my cider goggles on
Yes technicality is my strong point
men don't have wibbly wobbly bits they have dingly dangly bits - get your technical terms right please
men don't have wibbly wobbly bits they have dingly dangly bits - get your technical terms right please
- Jul 7, 2003
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Mysterious craft seen orbiting around Ninian Park for the last couple of days!
- Jul 7, 2003
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Phone Home, Earnie!
London Calling
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Hey, Supernova,
can you tell me the London weather?
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can you tell me the London weather?
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Pavilionaire
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- Jul 7, 2003
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I'm GUTTED about the cloud cover, I was going to have a Mars party, everyone was coming over to marvel at the distant speck in the sky...
Can't wait for the return of Halley's Comet, btw..
Can't wait for the return of Halley's Comet, btw..