teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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3 Spacecraft Arriving on Mars in Quick Succession
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All of the above assumes that the landers will actually land, that the orbiters will stay in orbit, and the parts that were somehow skipped during the component testing phase won’t fail.
*fingers crossed* Boru
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Come on over to my place, I have six kegs cooling.
1 mission showing up occasionally if fine.
Three in a day? The Martians will either build a wall and demand Earth pays for it, or they'll just nuke us. Playing Cluedo with my mum while I was at Uni: "You did WHAT? With WHO? WHERE???"  RE: 3 Spacecraft Arriving on Mars in Quick Succession
February 9, 2021 at 8:02 pm
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(February 9, 2021 at 7:22 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: 1 mission showing up occasionally if fine. I've often considered writing a sci-fi story wherein the Martians send a contingent of attorneys to Earth to sue for damages and to have the litter we left cleaned up. I have enough projects going that writing a story with this plot line is up for grabs. Maybe publish it as a short story in Analog magazine in the "Probability Zero" genre. Anyway, I've read so little new fiction that it's probably been covered, already. : shrug:
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February 10, 2021 at 10:26 am
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