Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site topaz.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!columbia!topaz!jpa144 From: jpa144@cit-vax Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: What the Visitors came for Message-ID: <2711@topaz.ARPA> Date: Sun, 14-Jul-85 16:03:18 EDT Article-I.D.: topaz.2711 Posted: Sun Jul 14 16:03:18 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 17-Jul-85 08:35:39 EDT Sender: daemon@topaz.ARPA Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 23 From: jpa144@cit-vax (Jens Peter Alfke) >> Isaac Asimov wrote a book in whichthe plot traced an expedition >> from Mars to Jupiter to acquire water. > > Wasn't that Saturn ? The story (novelette) is "The Martian Way", and the expedition went to the asteroid belt, I believe. (Makes more sense than Jupiter or Saturn, doesn't it? I could be wrong, however; I don't have a copy of the story.) With regard to the Visitors/Rigellians, I can't imagine a sapient race being stupid enough to think we have a Bronze Age culture -- anyone about to invade a planet would monitor activity (especially radio and TV) on that planet VERY carefully beforehand. If they wanted red meat, they could have caused much less alarm by snatching cows instead ... :-) --Peter Alfke alfke.pasa@xerox -or- jpa144@cit-vax