HW: RE: calvert question

[keith kirk]

you should examine all of the variations of master of the universe ,was it
diferant band members attitude or differant times ,or the seer not being so
fucked up every where he goes or got his head together and saw who the real
fuckers are ,ie,sector 63,hawkwind are humanitys last hope.   a mangy cur
not a red kirk


>From: M Holmes <fofp at HOLYROOD.ED.AC.UK>
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>Subject: Re: HW: RE: calvert question
>Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 11:31:43 +0100
>
>Nick Medford writes:
>
> > >Incidently, the Spirit of the P/Age offers this lyric for Greenfly -
>'As
> > >their tiny jaws / munch on plan and cause' - I think a case could be
>made
> > >for 'munch on planet cores' as well.
> >
> > There are a few surprising errors on that otherwise superb site- the
>most
> > glaring one is in "Ten seconds of Forever", wherein the forests of Venus
> > have become 'duned', rather than 'jewelled' like they used to be in the
>70s.
> > Maybe some space bandits stole all the jewels, leaving only sand....
>
>Reality is even more prosaic.  I saw some documentary about the Venus
>radar mapper probe.  They found the tops of some mountains were like
>really really radar reflective.  Looking at the temperature of 300 plus
>degrees centigrade (or thereabouts, physical chemists feel free to
>correct me) at that altitude, their best guess was that titanium(?)
>which had melted and evaporated into the atmosphere as a gas, was
>cooling at altitude and forming snowflakes which then dropped onto the
>mountaintops.  So I guess "The silvered mountains of Venus" might work
>as an accurate description.
>
>FoFP

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