Talk:David Starr, Space Ranger

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Date?[edit]

It's been a while since I read it, but I seem to recall David Starr, Space Ranger being set much further in the future than 2100 -- more like 5,000 years in the future. If anyone has a copy, can they check this?

RandomCritic (talk) 20:19, 16 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I also recall it being much further on; if memory serves the book mentions "[one or five] thousand years since the invention of the atomic bomb". I will get out my own copy later today and look. --142.90.99.60 (talk) 20:02, 23 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Fissures are source of Mars canals?[edit]

"The famous Martian canals are not mentioned as such, though Asimov's Mars does have a network of fissures that might be the source of the presumed canals." As I understand, this would mean that the fissures in Asimov's Mars were first and the Mars canals were based upon them, not vice versa. 145.236.129.247 (talk) 23:19, 10 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Mars atmospheric density[edit]

The atmosphere of Mars is a 99% vacuum, so it's surface pressure is only about 8 Torr, or about 1% that of Earth's and not the "one-fifth" claimed on the page. This is still sufficient fluid nature to permit lofting of dust grains km high in the Martian atmosphere, but entirely insufficient to threaten blowing over spacecraft as portrayed in the movie "The Martian" which was released almost 40 years after the deployment of the Viking landers (1976), and six decades after the mistakes in knowledge made by Asimov. 68.207.78.144 (talk) 23:17, 23 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]