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Re: Isaac Asimov's "Anatomy of a [Life On Mars LEGO] Martian"
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Sun, 28 Oct 2001 03:34:42 GMT
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Very cool... Now they are all the more interesting. Too bad he didn't say:
"And they're vehicles and structures will be modular with protrusions on the
top to mount them together."
-Nick
In lugnet.space, Bradley Dale writes:
> Quotes from "Anatomy of a Martian" by I. Asimov; first published as "Anatomy of
> a Man from Mars" in Esquire Magazine, September 1965; appearing in the book _Is
> Anyone There?_.
>
> "Let us suppose that we are told flatly: "There is intellignet life on Mars,
> roughly man-shaped in form."" ...
>
> "Mars is a small world with a gravitational force only two-fifths that of
> earth. If the Martian is a boned creature, those bones can be considerably
> slenderer than ours and still support a similar mass of material (an inevitable
> mechanical consequence of decreased weight). Therefore, even if the torso
> itself were of human bulk, the legs and arms of the Martian would seem
> grotesquely thin to us."...
>
> "Objects fall more slowly in a weak gravitational field and thus the Martians
> could afford to have slower reflexes. Therefore, they would seem rather slow
> and sleepy to us." [Recon Mech Pilots]...
>
> "To travel of shifting sands, the Martian foot (like that of the earthly camel)
> would have to be flat and broad"...
>
> "The Martian atmosphere, according to Mariner IV data, is extremely thin,
> perhaps a hundredth the density of our own and consisting almost entirely of
> carbon dioxide. Thus, the Martian will not breathe and will not have a
> nose..."...
>
> "We can guess two eyes in front, as in the human being, since two are
> nescessary for stereoscopic vision--a very handy thing to have for estimating
> distance."...
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> "It is very likely that the Martian will also be adapted to underground
> existance, for conditions are much more equable underground. One ,might expect
> therefore that the Martian would also have two large eyes set on either side of
> the head, for seeing by feeble illumination" ... "These dim-vision eyes would
> be enormous enough to make the Martian face wider than it is long. In daytime,
> of course, they would be tightly closed behind tough-skinned lids and would
> appear as rounded buldges."
>
> Wow, now we know what those buldges on most Martians are- extra eyes! The LOM
> designers really did their research, or a lot of thinking about the same
> conditions. I really like LOM now. :)
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