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   From: thetruemelissa@gmail.com   
      
   Verily, in article <10lr3eg$v923$1@dont-email.me>, did bliss-   
   sf4ever@dslextreme.com deliver unto us this message:   
   > Look at the stories about Venus.  Tropical with oceans and maybe 'saurians.   
   > When a place is  completely unknown then writers are free to impose multiple   
   > realities.   
   > 	Once the terrain is known Mars is barren and cold, Venus is barren and hot,   
   > writers are constrained to the known conditions, unless they posit alternate   
   > universes or realities.   
   >   
      
   I recall classic Mars as a desert and classic Venus as a jungle, not   
   barren. Bradbury certainly didn't paint it as barren in "All Summer In a   
   Day." Pasty white plants tower to the skies, and the temperature seems   
   about like ours (it must be all that rain).   
      
   --   
   The True Melissa - Canal Winchester - Ohio   
   United States of America - North America - Earth   
   Solar System - Milky Way - Local Group   
   Virgo Cluster - Laniakea Supercluster - Cosmos   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)