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You Might Be A Geek If...
Jan. 27th, 2009 11:29 amyou find yourself thinking "winters on a terraformed Mars would really suck."
Let me back up a bit. As you may have heard, it's winter here in Chicago - a colder and certainly snowier then average winter. It's the kind of weather that makes one understand why birds fly south. (Answer: because they can!)
Well, I've been consoling myself with the thought that winter will be over in a few months. Except, on Mars, the seasons are twice as long. Now, if every time you step outside involves airlocks and pressure suits, seasons aren't a big deal. It's really just a factor of hours of sunlight. Also, with Mars near-lack of atmosphere, there's not much weather to fuss with.
But terraformed? Six months of snow? Yuck! Of course, you get six months of summer (probably not as hot as ours) and six months of fall and spring.
At any rate, having demonstrated my vast amount of geekiness, I'll mention that I just received my schedule of programming for Capricon (3 panels) but due to the crush of the day job I haven't had time to make a coherent post of it. That's tomorrow's update. Also upcoming are my thoughts on Cherie Priest's latest novel Fathom.
Let me back up a bit. As you may have heard, it's winter here in Chicago - a colder and certainly snowier then average winter. It's the kind of weather that makes one understand why birds fly south. (Answer: because they can!)
Well, I've been consoling myself with the thought that winter will be over in a few months. Except, on Mars, the seasons are twice as long. Now, if every time you step outside involves airlocks and pressure suits, seasons aren't a big deal. It's really just a factor of hours of sunlight. Also, with Mars near-lack of atmosphere, there's not much weather to fuss with.
But terraformed? Six months of snow? Yuck! Of course, you get six months of summer (probably not as hot as ours) and six months of fall and spring.
At any rate, having demonstrated my vast amount of geekiness, I'll mention that I just received my schedule of programming for Capricon (3 panels) but due to the crush of the day job I haven't had time to make a coherent post of it. That's tomorrow's update. Also upcoming are my thoughts on Cherie Priest's latest novel Fathom.
