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And that's the Tharsis bulge-Paul Bunyon, almost sticking out-Ascraeus his nose, Pavonis his cock, and Arsia his big toes.
And that's the Tharsis bulge—Paul Bunyon, almost sticking out—Ascraeus his nose, Pavonis his cock, and Arsia his big toes.
And that’s the Tharsis bulge—Paul Bunyon, almost sticking out—Ascraeus his nose, Pavonis his cock, and Arsia his big toes.
The globe was rotating on the stand at about one RPM, and the silver wire and its terminating black dot rotated with it, always remaining above Pavonis.
And a few days later he was on the west slope of Pavonis Mons, driving a small rover down a narrow road that paralleled a band of disturbed volcanic rubble, with what looked like a cog railway track running right down it.
It was near sunset now, the sun pouring through a gap between Pavonis and the dust cloud, illuminating the clouds from below in a garish display of violent martian tones, casting a hellish light over the milling scene.
Without dinosaurs dominating the ecosystem, mammals—or the endothermic octopeds on Beta Hydri III, and the live-birthers like T’kna on Delta Pavonis II—would never have been forced into the crepuscular existence that fostered the development of bigger brains.
That afternoon Sax stopped his rover in the saddle between Pavonis and Arsia, at the spot called Four Mountain View-a sublime place, with two of the continent-volcanoes filling the horizons to north and south, and then the distant bump of Olympus Mons off to the northwest, and on clear days (this one was too hazy) a glimpse of As-craeus, in the distance just to the right of Pavonis.
Some had been building nuclear reactors up on top of Pavonis Mons, where the space elevator would touch down.
Pavonis in that era had been called Phoenicus Lacus, Phoenix Lake.
East Pavonis was a maze of tents, warehouses, manufactories, pistes, parking lots, pipelines, holding tanks, holding yards.
Scholars analyzed all forms of venerable teachings, from the mysterious Muadru runestones found scattered on uninhabited planets, to the vague Navachristian traditions of Poritrin and Chusuk the haiku of the Zen Hekiganshu on III Delta Pavonis, and the alternate interpretations of the Koran Sutras from the Zensunni and Zenshia sects.
Scholars analyzed all forms of venerable teachings, from the mysterious Muadru runestones found scattered on uninhabited planets, to the vague Navachristian traditions of Poritrin and Chusuk, the haiku of the Zen Hekiganshu on III Delta Pavonis, and the alternate interpretations of the Koran Sutras from the Zensunni and Zenshia sects.
She tapped out the code for the Journal of Analogical Studies, typed in Pavonis: “Evidence of Strombolian Explosive Activity Found in West Tharsis Clasts.