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9 posts with the tag yellow
0315 - 2026.09 Alien Landscape (Crystal mountain)
I didn’t make the scuppers, but it was a close thing. The pilot was threatened with the scuppers too, but we had only followed orders and taken evasive action. The damage to our craft was dents, not
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0190 - 2025.06 Alien Landscape 2
After the initial frisson of anticipation, the dark line seducing us into believing there was a structure, a city, an industry, something, we took a more rational approach. We slowed, gained altitude
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0244 - 2025.09 The crystal caves
Life on Mars was always a bit of an oxymoron. Primitive. Ancient. Not very H.G. Wells at all. So the early settlers became miners for more than one reason. The hollow magma tubes became underground s
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0251 - 2025.09 The Wind
When he was eleven, Simon started writing and drawing in a notebook. Not regularly. Just every now and then when the wind blew strongly enough to get his attention. So many questions, so few answers
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0194 - 2025.06 Gomper
“We’re approaching a binary star system, at her satanic majesty’s request, 2000 light years from home. Time to check the readouts. Whoa there, Gomper! They should look like a rainbow, not a distant c
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0245 - 2025.09 Spiders from Mars (Seventeen)
Do you ever have one of those days when things, well, don’t turn out as planned? The sort where you wake up twenty minutes late and for the rest of the day you play catch-up? Where the traffic lights
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0203 - 2025.06 Ionian Shadow
Io is intensely volcanically active due to tidal forces from Jupiter and its neighboring moons, with Sulfur and Sulfur dioxide abundant on the surface. Lightly coloured from orbit, on the surface it’
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0201 - 2025.06 Crack in Time
Mercury, closest to the sun, was always expected to be sunburnt, cracked and full of surprises. Early Mariner flybys did not dispel this line of thinking, returned data suggesting a moon like surface
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0212 - 2025.06 Astigmatism four ways
The ginkgo is an ancient tree species with unusual leaves. Come Autumn they go yellow, and fall off, lying pretty on the ground. If you have astigmatism, or squint a little, the patterns and colours
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