Posted on 12/14/2015 8:53:19 PM PST by BenLurkin
Wow. From this to Curiosity in my lifetime!
What they said at the time was a Martian could walk right up to a Viking lander, and the lander would never know,
I know the feeling. In my case, it’s from “the maps just show a coincidence,” to plate tectonics. And from canals on Mars to actual landings. I remember the first close up pictures of the moon that were radioed back to earth just seconds before the rocket slammed into the lunar surface which was not, sorry sci-fi, covered in dust.
I don’t know if my high school was behind but I had never heard of plate tectonics until I took a college geology course. It was one of the true Aha! moments in my life.
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