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WorldWeird: [Closed] First Mars Pictures were Rendered in Crayon

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    • CommentAuthorFlabyo
    • CommentTimeMay 26th 2009
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    I hope this is real.

    I like the mental image of scientists so impatient to see the images that rather than wait for their clunky PDP (or whataver Nasa were using then) to process it into an image they broke out the scissors and crayons.
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    Makes sense to me. Remember how boring it was waiting for a single soft-core porno image to load on a modem?
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    People didn't know this already?
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      CommentAuthorFinagle
    • CommentTimeMay 26th 2009
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    No, I'm afraid I was really quite enthusiastic for pornography when I first got online with a 2400 bps modem, and complained pretty bitterly about the speed.

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