Interesting stuff. Thanks!

Well, you showed me.

To liberals, we're all screwy.
After all, we don't want to be helped by big brother, so where would we all be without dependency.

Maybe me dino not be the only screwball in the Gulch.

Thanks! I am always looking for good Sci Fi, there is such a shortage of original material....

On the other hand check out a really good SF movie called The Arrival. No spectacular special effects, but thoughtful first encounter material.

Why is it that I knew you'd say that?

Thanks! An hour ago I thought about those spider-like heads and wondered which ERB Mars book that was in.

my first Burroughs was Princess of Mars Those spider-like heads chasing Dejah Thoris around sure pumped my imagination.

But not if you're reading Edgar Rice Burroughs.

Or even drink the wine, though its consumption would be the point.

A common issue, which is what Stephen Hawking is always bringing up. He has been warning since Voyager that advertising is not such a great idea...

Dino you are a definite screwball. (A word that has become passé but is very apt.) Rarely has such nuttiness been coupled with such erudition in one person. I have a feeling that if we were at a dinner table opposite one another with a nice bottle of wine, it would take us a couple of hours to just stop laughing long enough to actually say something meaningful.

Yes, I have the whole Burroughs series on audio books, and they were free through the open source website, fun to listen to, just recorded not so great.

You're right it's the moon with green cheese, Mars has little green people.

Me dino read many of those books as a young teenager. The very first one was Carson Of Venus thanks to irresistible Frank Frazetta illustrated soft cover. https://www.amazon.com/Carson-Venus-F...
As for Pellucidar, I'll' never forget the prose-made visual of Tarzan in a blimp that descends into that middle earth via a big watery hole near the North Pole. http://www.ebay.com/p/?iid=3916294932...
Do believe all these "novels" are spliced together cliffhanger serials for pulp fiction back before we had TV.
But Edgar Rice Burroughs sparked an interest in reading when I considered what schools want me to read as merely a chore.
Now it's all fondly recalled silly stuff.
https://www.google.com/search?q=chess...

Burroughs also sent Tarzan to savage Pellucidar as a follow-up to his own middle earth novels, which also had seas and volcanoes. Not to mention his Carson Napier Venusian series. He wasn't much on prose but had great imagination, which our movie makers have been feasting on for decades,

Of course there's water in Middle Earth...how else would Hobbits tend to their gardens???

You must mean the Moon for two reasons me dino can think of~
#1 the destination of the novel
#2 the fabled cheese location
Even less scientific was Edgar Rice Burroughs of Tarzan fame, who his sent John Carter character to Mars.

Jules Verne was fun reading but not very scientific. And in his trip to Mars, he totally forgot the green cheese.

that's a big difference -- from the Marianas Trench
at 6.7 miles deep to this at 621 miles deep. . WoW. -- j
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I hope it does not imply intelligent life there, as that would have moral implications for humans who would want to colonize.

I believe so, Irshultis. You'll have to look up the "Electric Universe Theory" to get the specifics.

There is a lot of info on the suspicious0bservers.org site.

What do you mean by electric? Is it different than than in the structure of atoms and molecules where the electrons keep you from falling through the floor?

It could also indicate that there are life forms on those planets that might not mix with humans very well. Look at what happened to the Indians, and they were visited by earthlings.