The Mars Colony

UnderseaLcpl · 07-08-10, 01:06 PM

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Originally Posted by TLAM Strike

So the Lcpl is a Browncoat! All your Libertarian ranting suddenly makes sense...

Oh yea

Oh yeah!

Steve got me started on it, now I can't stop watching it over and over. And over.

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Check out Episode 214 "Grace Under Pressure" and 318 "Submersion".

I'll see if I can't find it on hulu after I get done moving. Man, I hate moving.

TLAM Strike · 07-08-10, 01:28 PM

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Originally Posted by UnderseaLcpl

Oh yeah!

OH YEAH!!

Damn it now look what we did...

Great going there Lcpl...

Skybird · 07-08-10, 01:59 PM

My image of Mars was seriously influenced by this book that I read as a small boy of 12 years, or 13:

Robots! Many robots! Laser beams! Jungles of meat-eating tentacle swinging plants! Ghost towns full of computers! One man all alone! Pure Magic for a boy of that age. I read it in one rush (like most books at that time), and could not sleep for two nights, for i was so excited and my imagination ran amok.

Ray Bradbury writing about a boy who has read this book - that would be something!

Oberon · 07-08-10, 02:26 PM

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Originally Posted by Skybird

My image of Mars was seriously influenced by this book that I read as a small boy of 12 years, or 13:

Robots! Many robots! Laser beams! Jungles of meat-eating tentacle swinging plants! Ghost towns full of computers! One man all alone! Pure Magic for a boy of that age. I read it in one rush (like most books at that time), and could not sleep for two nights, for i was so excited and my imagination ran amok.

Ray Bradbury writing about a boy who has read this book - that would be something!

Awesome, that was about the age I was when I read War of the Worlds. Still one of my favourite books.

Skybird · 07-08-10, 05:31 PM

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Awesome, that was about the age I was when I read War of the Worlds. Still one of my favourite books.

"Boje Weltraum-Abenteuer", a series of eight books from a publisher of youth books - true classics of youth literature in Germany, and German science fiction. Mark Brandis also is such a classic series, aiming at teenagers and younger adults. It is popular until today, although the series is from the late 70s and 80s.

German readers, heads up! the Mark Brandis books, all 30+, are in the process of getting republished since some time, the first half of the series is already available again! I have bought and read "Bordbuch Delta VII" some months ago - that was great fun and brought back many memories! they also have turned the books into radioplays of accustically absolutely outstanding quality - the scenery sounds like you used to know it from movies.

http://62.75.219.232/ernstwurdack-s3...88cfbae9b6f6f9

August · 07-08-10, 10:24 PM

This is the series that turned me on to Mars as a kid:

Sailor Steve · 07-08-10, 10:37 PM

I didn't really get into Burroughs until I was a teenager, and not the John Carter series until my twenties. When I read the part where Barsoomian women lay eggs I thought "How cool - the never lose their figures!"

But then I was married to a woman who had two kids the human way and didn't change a bit.

MH · 07-08-10, 02:33 PM

I guess that if there was same motivation in NASA now as it was in 60s and 70s humanity could reach Mars and beyond.
As for now there is no will and money for space programs.

As a SF fun -i kind of hoped we would live in more exiting age for space exploration.

Who cares about some rocks in space.
No life no votes.

07-08-10, 01:59 PM	#3
Skybird Soaring Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: the mental asylum named Germany Posts: 42,612 Downloads: 10 Uploads: 0	My image of Mars was seriously influenced by this book that I read as a small boy of 12 years, or 13: Robots! Many robots! Laser beams! Jungles of meat-eating tentacle swinging plants! Ghost towns full of computers! One man all alone! Pure Magic for a boy of that age. I read it in one rush (like most books at that time), and could not sleep for two nights, for i was so excited and my imagination ran amok. Ray Bradbury writing about a boy who has read this book - that would be something! __________________ If you feel nuts, consult an expert.

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August Wayfaring Stranger Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Massachusetts Posts: 23,197 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	This is the series that turned me on to Mars as a kid: __________________ Flanked by life and the funeral pyre. Putting on a show for you to see.

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Sailor Steve Eternal Patrol Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: High in the mountains of Utah Posts: 50,369 Downloads: 745 Uploads: 249	I didn't really get into Burroughs until I was a teenager, and not the John Carter series until my twenties. When I read the part where Barsoomian women lay eggs I thought "How cool - the never lose their figures!" But then I was married to a woman who had two kids the human way and didn't change a bit. __________________ “Never do anything you can't take back.” —Rocky Russo

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MH Ocean Warrior Join Date: Jul 2008 Posts: 3,184 Downloads: 248 Uploads: 0	I guess that if there was same motivation in NASA now as it was in 60s and 70s humanity could reach Mars and beyond. As for now there is no will and money for space programs. As a SF fun -i kind of hoped we would live in more exiting age for space exploration. Who cares about some rocks in space. No life no votes.