This morning, the great athlete Pietro Mennea passed away. He was nicknamed the Arrow of the South for his speed and his origins in Southern Italy. He won several medals in the Olympics, in the European Championships and in the first edition of the World Championships. In 1979, he set the world record in the 200 m with 19.72 seconds.
The novel “Anvil of Stars” by Greg Bear was published for the first time in 1992. It’s the sequel to “The Forge of God”.
The Benefactors have failed to save the Earth from destruction but had time to save thousands of human beings. In addition to starting the terraforming of Mars, they offered the survivors the support of the Law, a galactic code which requires among other things that the Killers, the species that created the machines that destroyed many planets, including Earth, are found and destroyed.
Last week, NASA presented the evidence found by the Mars Curiosity Rover that long ago the conditions on Mars were favorable to life. Now, further findings presented at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference suggest that those conditions extended beyond the site where Curiosity made the rock drilling.
