Word: martian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...complicated of the year. The scenery may not be much, but as we know from photographs of the Old West, which Pathfinder's greatly resemble, no-man's-land has always been America's fallback version of paradise--if not Eden, at least a new proving ground. So those Martian postcards may show nothing in particular, but for the imagination operating in forward thrust they are plausible glimpses of heaven...
...green slime is imbued with so much creative energy that one wonders why the characters are so universally dull. One possible explanation may place blame on Disney, which continues to recycle its old hits as guaranteed blockbusters. (Next year, expect retreads of My Favorite Martian and The Parent Trap.) Moreover, Disney's live-action films all seem to be reduced to slapstick violence between a paper-cut villain and a cheesy hero. And yet, even in last year's dreadful remake of 101 Dalmations, Glenn Close found room to make Cruella De Vil somewhat entertaining...
...always was a barren, lifeless rock, there's one that suggests it once teemed with life ? and sure enough, we're more likely to listen to the latter. That was evident when a report in the journal Science pooh-poohing NASA?s claims over the supposedly fossilized Martian meteor was elbowed aside in the media by Friday's edition of Nature. The latter, gathering evidence from the Pathfinder mission, said Mars was once warm, moist ? and more likely to have harbored some form of extra-terrestrial...
...only did Pathfinder land on a Martian plain that may have been sculpted by water, but the plucky little Sojourner rover kept bumping into rocks that are extremely similar to those found under lake beds back on Earth. "Mars was certainly once a very wet place," says TIME Science Writer Jeffrey Kluger, "before the loss of its atmosphere. And yes, life did have time to develop...
Life on Mars? NASA got us all excited about apparent signs of life found on a Martian meteor. But apparently they weren't bugs, just a feature...