God, this looks like my Tupperware after a few weeks. While
NASA
was trying to pry beneath the surface of Europa in search of marine
life in sealed oceans, they should have considered the obvious answer
to whether or not there is life on Europa;bug-men living in plastic
cities. I hear these plastic cities are great, particularly the
ones made by "ersatz*" science, but they do tend to pick
up flavours from
their contents after a while.
It
looks like our spaceman has finally made some friends. It seems
the cat women of Ganymede have been letting their dinosaur loose in
the Europan cucumber frames (or lettuce patch, or whatever those are)
and the Earthman squeezed off a helpful round. From the look on
his face, though, he's just discovered that they don't call the
Europans the "stinkbug people" for nothing.
A
perfect combination of super science and insane low tech. For
your edification we present the ether-power ship. This wonder of
science draws power from the very air transmitted from power stations
leagues away. It then uses this power to run staggeringly
inefficient banks of oars to propel the ship along. It's some
progress, I suppose. In the old days they used the
ether to power cattle
prods to jolt
rowers into going faster.
