• AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
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    124 months ago

    Think about that though. I guess it’s no big deal to younger people since Mars has been reachable for their whole life, but the fact that we have robots on Mars taking pictures of a solar eclipse and sending it back to earth is just amazing to me! Mars was a huge mystery when I was a kid. Heck, my childhood was at the tail end of society wondering if there were martians living on Mars.

    • @Jimbo
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      24 months ago

      my childhood was at the tail end of society wondering if there were martians living on Mars

      As a younger person… was this thought of as a real possibility by some people? I find that hard to believe

      • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
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        34 months ago

        Idk if adults believed it was a real possibility, but us kids having read The Martian Chronicles certainly did.

      • @explodicle@sh.itjust.works
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        24 months ago

        Yep! They thought Venus might be habitable too. When The War of the Worlds aired, listeners (who missed the disclaimer) thought it was real and panicked.