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From: vallor <vallor@cultnix.org>
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Subject: Re: A "big" PC (compared to a "smart" phone).
Date: 23 Sep 2024 17:14:42 GMT
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On Mon, 23 Sep 2024 06:44:53 -0400, Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us>
wrote in <vcrgr5$2m1qj$5@dont-email.me>:

> rbowman wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:
> 
>> On Sun, 22 Sep 2024 15:41:03 -0500, chrisv wrote:
>>
>>> rbowman wrote:
>>> 
>>>>While I enjoy sci-fi novels involving space travel I sometimes wonder
>>>>what we've gotten out of the programs.
>>> 
>>> Maybe it made sense to go the moon, back then.  But IMO the current
>>> programs to the moon and/or Mars are simply colossal wastes of money.
>>> 
>>> Mars is *incredible* idiocy.
>>
>> Not quite as bad as Venus. The Soviets seemed focused on it and had
>> quite a few successful soft landings. They got enough data to conclude
>> the surface temperature was close to a balmy 900 F and the clouds were
>> mostly sulfuric or phosphoric acid droplets. Home sweet home.
>>
>> As far as other systems, the technology doesn't exist outside of the
>> wu-wu land of wormholes in fiction.
> 
> Establishing a base on the Moon could make sense.
> 
> As long as they don't unearth (unmoon) a tall black monolith.

I don't know what color they are, but similar anomalies have
been found on the Moon:

   https://www.lunascan.com/anom/ltp/cuspids/cuspids.htm

Trivia:  I once spent time in the local library's newspaper
morgue looking into this story.

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