Maybe women still inhabit Venus and have put up the smoke screens to keep the rest of the men out....Hmm. Lisa Zeigler -----Original Message----- From: diveboss@xmission.com [mailto:diveboss@xmission.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2004 11:20 AM To: Utah Astronomy Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Mars... the rest of the story Speaking of Mars, did you know... A long, long time ago and far, far away, Mars was once a bustling planet, with commerce and exports. It was a Man's planet with tools of every type and size. Talk about fast food, we had the biggest, most loaded pizza's anywhere in the galaxy. Because it is the Man's planet, Mars was at that time, thought to be the fastest, most powerful planet in the universe. Our atmosphere comprised mostly of testosterone and methane. We had everything a life form could possibly want, except women. We knew there were women over on Venus, but that was a couple of planets away and well, being men, couldn't agree a particular direction to go that would get us to where these ladies were. All this infighting took its toll and one thing led to another and we ended up ruining the whole damned planet. With all the bodies of water fished completely dry, what could we do. The water was gone and without water, we were beginning to stink. Suddenly we found ourselves needing to find a new place to live. Of course without women, the nights on Mars were cold, so it was decided at tribal council, that we should hop one planet closer to the sun where we could get warm. When we arrived on the blue planet, we found it occupied by big grass and meat eating monsters we called dinosaurs. We started to yearn for female company, or some of us did. Since we were now a little closer to Venus we could actually see it, and therefore no longer needed directions to find it. We decided to send a team over to escort the ladies back. The women refused to come until we did something about those mean, nasty old dinosaurs. Soooo, for the ladies, we killed them off. The women were furious at us for killing the dinosaurs. They didn't want the creepy things hanging around but they didn't want us to kill them either. The seed was planted... ;) Years went by and one thing lead to another and before long, we were populating the blue planet which we named Earth. There is a couple of things about the new planet, and, the joint occupation by both men and women, that need some explaining. You see, when you have a planet such as Mars, where nothing but men existed for all those years, well some of the guy's didn't exactly take to women and, well you know... and, when you have a planet like Venus, where nothing but women existed, some of the gals didn't exactly take to the guy's and... you get the picture. Oh, don't get me wrong, these two groups thrived and they formed a commune which today we call San Francisco. ;) Suffice it to say and things being what they are, so far we've all gotten along pretty good. Well sort of. So now you know the TRUE story about Mars, Earth and Venus, and aren't you glad? ;) Well in reality, today we know just about as much about the planet Venus as we do about the women who once occupied it... Guy _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list Utah-Astronomy@mailman.xmission.com http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Visit the Photo Gallery: http://www.utahastronomy.com