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Ben Bova's Titan, Hard Science Fiction novel |
 Mar 28 2006, 02:57 PM
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Quotes from the novel review:
"Eduoard Urbain, in charge of all science on the ship, is focused on his baby, a semi-intelligent probe, Titan Alpha, dropped to the surface of the moon Titan. He expects this mission to make or break his career. Unfortunately, the mission is shaping up as a massive failure, as the probe, while visibly active through satellite monitoring, refuses to communicate with its human handlers." "Meanwhile, scientist Nadia Wunderly is convinced that Saturn's rings harbor actual living organisms that are historically responsible for maintaining these unlikely constructions. She needs a sample from the rings to prove her thesis, but Eberly is against her plans, since if it's proven the rings harbor living organisms, he won't be able to mine the structures for valuable water ice." Full review here: http://www.scifi.com/sfw/books/sfw12394.html -------------------- "After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined,
and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance. I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard, and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft." - Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853 |
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Mar 28 2006, 07:14 PM
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I am curently reading "Saturn".
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Mar 28 2006, 07:42 PM
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I remember reading in 'Mars' (1990) that the scarps of Valles Marineris are made of undifferentiated basalt all the way down
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