#mars

Mars, when guilty of homicide, and set free from the charge of murder by the Athenians through favour, lest he should appear to be too fierce and savage, committed adultery with Venus. ↗

— Lactantius

#appear #athenians #charge #committed #favour

I'm glad I don't have to explain to a man from Mars why each day I set fire to dozens of little pieces of paper, and then put them in my mouth. ↗

— Mignon McLaughlin

#dozens #each #explain #fire #glad

And every friend I've got has been writing Mars stories. It was pretty clear I'd never catch up. ↗

— Larry Niven

#catch #clear #every #friend #got

I remember as a kid having the offer of a scholarship, that it was going to be like going to Mars, and deciding to stay in my public school. ↗

— Edward Norton

#going #having #i #i remember #kid

When we see the shadow on our images, are we seeing the time 11 minutes ago on Mars? Or are we seeing the time on Mars as observed from Earth now? It's like time travel problems in science fiction. When is now; when was then? ↗

— Bill Nye

#earth #fiction #images #like #mars

If NASA is to reach beyond the Moon and someday reach Mars, it must be relieved of the burden of launching people and cargo to low earth orbit. To do that, we must invest more in commercial spaceflight. ↗

— Bill Nye

#burden #cargo #commercial #earth #invest

We are involved in technology development for, you know, missions that we hope to plan that would take us to an asteroid and eventually to Mars. ↗

— Ellen Ochoa

#development #eventually #hope #involved #know

Small samples in the centrifuge will spin at varying rates to create synthetic gravity, like the gravity of Mars or the gravity of the moon, and measure how the specimens respond within the centrifuge. ↗

— John L. Phillips

#gravity #how #like #mars #measure

A visitor from Mars could easily pick out the civilized nations. They have the best implements of war. ↗

— Herbert V. Prochnow

#best #civilized #civilized nations #could #easily

I think I tried to steal a Mars bar once from a shop but then I went and put it back. ↗

— Daniel Radcliffe

#bar #i #i think #i tried #mars