SETI's Seth Shostak Reviews Red Planet

Posted by tourdemars to Entertainment at November 13, 2000 12:00 PM

It’s 2052, and our descendants are choking on the wretched refuse of their own technology. In a last-ditch effort to forestall environmental Armageddon, Earth takes a cue from the playbook of countless fictional aliens and looks for salvation on another world, in this case Mars. Robotic craft have been sent to melt the polar caps and seed the planet with blue-green algae in a barely plausible bid to produce a warm, breathable atmosphere.