From: "Strong, Lee" <strongl at sddc.army.mil>
To: "'WSFA members'" <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Re: Re: Getting mooned ?
Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2004 12:30:39 -0500
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

    Barry fondly remembers ice skating down the frozen Martian canals.
I think there's a difference between Heinlein's Red Planet and Fox's
Yarth/Terra.  Heinlein was extrapolating from shaky but still credible
science at the time he woke his novel of human-alien understanding.  Fox was
just forgetting to keep things consistent from chapter to chapter.
    If you would like to debate the WMD issue, read **all** of inspector
David Kay's comments first.  The _Wall Street Journal_ has published a
number of good articles on the subject recently.

-----Original Message-----
From: Barry L. Newton [mailto:bnewton at ashcomp.com]
Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2004 12:22 PM
To: WSFA members
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Re: Getting mooned ?

Let's not worry too much about minor details. . .I seem to remember Robt
Heinlein sending his protagonists ice skating for hundreds of miles on the
frozen Martian canals.  You've just got to have faith; and when we find
them, we'll probably find that certain weapons of mass destruction were
dumped there. . .

Barry