ALL SCI-FI

[Eadie]

In the featured Threads for 1-17-2020 you asked a question:

Well, Fridays are really no different from any other days, so there’s no reason to get excited about it.

(Oh, brother! If you believe that, I’ve got some lake-front property on Mars to sell ya!)

Perhaps you didn't know that there IS a lake-front property on Mars:

Solis Lacus (26°S 85°W) is a dark feature on Mars. It was once called "Oculus" and is still commonly called "The Eye of Mars" because with the surrounding light area called Thaumasia it resembles the pupil of one. Solis Lacus is known for the variability of its appearance, changing its size and shape when dust storms occur. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solis_Lacus
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Art Should Comfort the Disturbed and Disturb the Comfortable.

[Bud Brewster]

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Eadie, you're a clever girl. You posted that link and wanted to know if I'd click on it to read more. And you'd know that I had read it when you saw that I couldn't resist pasting that second paragraph here!
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Percival Lowell believed that it was the planetary capital of Mars due to the number of canals he claimed intersected at the region. In The Lost Worlds of 2001, Arthur C. Clarke had it as the landing site of the first robotic probe to Mars. In Robert Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land, the manned exploratory vessel Envoy lands just south of Solis Lacus.
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The capital of Mars. I love.
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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)