XPost: rec.arts.sf.written   
   From: tsbrueni@pop.dcn.davis.ca.us   
      
   Doug Dawson wrote:   
      
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   brueni@dcn.davis.ca.us (Tim Bruening) writes:   
   > >Spoilers for "Voices" the first Babylon 5 novel, written by John   
   > >Vornholt:   
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   > >In this novel Talia Winters is framed for bombing a Psi Corps convention   
   > >on Babylon 5.  At the beginning of this book, Harriman Grey (a military   
   > >telepath) disembarks on Mars, and a computer voice announces that the   
   > >temperature is 201 Celcius (393.8F) and that the expected high would be   
   > >274 C (525.2F).  On page 9, there is a reference to 200-degree heat,   
   > >which dashed my notion that Vornholt had gotten Celcius and Kevin   
   > >confused.  Later in the book, the temperature on Mars rose to 379 C   
   > >(714.2F!).  Do you have any theories on how Mars could get so hot?  I   
   > >thought Mars was supposed to be below freezing.   
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   > Mars is below freezing (well, in the middle of summer at the lowest point   
   > on the planet, it's a bit warmer, but still).  The initial temperature   
   > fits if we assume Vornholt looked up the temperature (given in K), but   
   > thought that it was Celsius (and hence quite warm).  Are you sure about that   
   > second number?  That fits moderately well only if it's 379 F (corresponding   
   > to about 200 C, assuming the same misreading).   
      
   Yes.  I suspect a typo for the 379 C temperature.   
      
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