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Subject: Re: What the Visitors came for
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Date: Sun, 14-Jul-85 16:03:18 EDT
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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
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