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Re: [FRC Blog] The 2017 FRC Season Teaser and More!
- So in Frank's picture, the 2001 Discovery crew is headed for Jupiter. That's in the movie; in the book they headed for Saturn. This is fiction, albeit excellent fiction.
- Real discoveries are still being made by exploration rovers on Mars.
- I wouldn't want to replay Lunacy -- the Moon is a harsh mistress!
- Venus is hot, caustic, and generally not a place to go unless you breathe carbon dioxide and drink sulfuric acid.
- Mercury? Well, deep underground you might commune with a Harmonium, ala Sirens of Titan. More fiction.
- Neptune and beyond, things get too distant and dark.
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All things considered, I think Mars is the best extraterrestrial setting for an FRC game theme. Maybe Phobos, home the Leather Godesses? (Yeah, I had that game back in the days of 5.25" floppies.)
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Richard Wallace
Mentor since 2011 for FRC 3620 Average Joes (St. Joseph, Michigan)
Mentor 2002-10 for FRC 931 Perpetual Chaos (St. Louis, Missouri)
 since 2003
I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research.
(Cosmic Religion : With Other Opinions and Aphorisms (1931) by Albert Einstein, p. 97)
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