> Mars is a red planet (well ... some shade of red),
> redder the image the more realistic it would like mars and less
> like a tomb stone.

I get an idea: Let's have an animation of the C man (or C++ man) and the D man in a western style showdown with a C/C++ tombstone. :-)

The first image is not altered from where I got it; I think. It was taken from some site named something like Mars Digital, what a coincidence. I did make another version that was more red though.

> However, they are very nice images, I like them.

Thanks.

> :D
> Sai

Bent Rasmussen schrieb:

> I get an idea: Let's have an animation of the C man (or C++ man) and the D man in a western style showdown with a C/C++ tombstone. :-)

Kewl. And it should be realtime-rendered in D. I'll be unavialable for another month or so, and then i plan to start on a demomaking framework written in D, with Blender export, so i think this could be the first demo to do. I wonder whether i can get the rest of the photoallergics help me, or whether "teh captain si teh self". :/ So far they've liked D. And they've liked demoscene. But they seem to be too busy making money in their spare time from (ahem) studying.

>>However, they are very nice images, I like them.

I find them very stylish as well.

-eye/photoallergics

>> I get an idea: Let's have an animation of the C man (or C++ man) and the D man in a western style showdown with a C/C++ tombstone. :-)
>
> Kewl. And it should be realtime-rendered in D. I'll be unavialable for another month or so, and then i plan to start on a demomaking framework written in D, with Blender export, so i think this could be the first demo to do. I wonder whether i can get the rest of the photoallergics help me, or whether "teh captain si teh self". :/ So far they've liked D. And they've liked demoscene. But they seem to be too busy making money in their spare time from (ahem) studying.

That would be a very cool thing demo. You'd have shots at several angles, focussing on the faces of the gunmen, with the sound of the wind etc.

>>>However, they are very nice images, I like them.
>
> I find them very stylish as well.

Thanks. There are high quality, high resolution versions on the page now. I'm going to be looking at making a poster for myself. :-)

> -eye/photoallergics

Bent Rasmussen wrote:
>>Wow! A tombstone made out of Mars rock! Now /that/ would be cool.
>>I want one.
> 
> 
> Jill, I think someone is selling Mars real estate so you might be able to cut yourself a deal. :-) Perhaps that was Moon real estate. I can't quite remember. The "owner" claimed he had a right to at least some part of it.

Someone /is/ selling moon land:
http://www.lunarlandowner.com/

I don't know that anyone else is selling Martian real estate, but send me US$100 and I'll send you a deed.

Limited-time offer.
Void where prohibited.
Some resistrictions apply.
;)

-- 
jcc7

In article <chkj11$2j2f$1@digitaldaemon.com>, Bent Rasmussen says...

>Jill, I think someone is selling Mars real estate so you might be able to cut yourself a deal. :-)

Even if I were a complete moron, I still wouldn't see the point of that.


>Perhaps that was Moon real estate. I can't quite remember.

There are all sorts of cons and rip-offs out there. For example there are several competing con artists claiming to be selling the right to name stars (see http://www.iau.org/IAU/FAQ/starnames.html), and a lot a gullable idiots fall for it (and then complain when astronomical catalogues don't use the name they "bought"). There's at least one bunch of people selling the rest of the universe, and claim that aliens will back up their ownership. You can even buy real (should that be virtual?) estate in cyberspace these days. Sheesh!


>The "owner" claimed he had a right to at least some part of it.

Yeah right! Anyone want to buy Buckingham Palace or Nelson's Column?

Jill

Arcane Jill wrote:

> In article <chkj11$2j2f$1@digitaldaemon.com>, Bent Rasmussen says...
> 
> 
>>Jill, I think someone is selling Mars real estate so you might be able to cut yourself a deal. :-)
> 
> 
> Even if I were a complete moron, I still wouldn't see the point of that.
> 
> 
> 
>>Perhaps that was Moon real estate. I can't quite remember.
> 
> 
> There are all sorts of cons and rip-offs out there. For example there are
> several competing con artists claiming to be selling the right to name stars
> (see http://www.iau.org/IAU/FAQ/starnames.html), and a lot a gullable idiots
> fall for it (and then complain when astronomical catalogues don't use the name
> they "bought"). There's at least one bunch of people selling the rest of the
> universe, and claim that aliens will back up their ownership. You can even buy
> real (should that be virtual?) estate in cyberspace these days. Sheesh!
> 
> 
> 
>>The "owner" claimed he had a right to at least some part of it.
> 
> 
> Yeah right! Anyone want to buy Buckingham Palace or Nelson's Column? 

It's amusing. I've always wondered who sold all these things to humanity in the first place. We have some nerve to suggest that we can own things and places.

Cheers,
Sigbjørn Lund Olsen

P.S. Humanity *is* doomed.