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#1 2004-02-10 12:30:10
- Palomar
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Re: Marsian V-Day Exercise
*You're a colonist on Mars, have access to the lab to create a special scent for your sweetheart on Valentine's Day. What is the Marsian-oriented name of the scent (perfume or cologne) you have created? 
--Cindy
P.S.: Sorry to say I'm lousy with naming stuff like this...will have to think about it. :laugh:
We all know [i]those[/i] Venusians: Doing their hair in shock waves, smoking electrical coronas, wearing Van Allen belts and resting their tiny elbows on a Geiger counter...
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#2 2004-02-10 12:54:09
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Re: Marsian V-Day Exercise
Echo of Mars.
It would smell like the ocean.
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#3 2004-02-10 12:54:59
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*I've created and named the spicy-scented cologne for my sweetheart. Its name:
Harmakhis Kiss
Where did I come up with that outlandish first word?
[http://www.astro.utoronto.ca/~reid/mars/names.html]Names for Mars in various languages
--Cindy
(I love ancient Egyptian stuff)
We all know [i]those[/i] Venusians: Doing their hair in shock waves, smoking electrical coronas, wearing Van Allen belts and resting their tiny elbows on a Geiger counter...
--John Sladek (The New Apocrypha)
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#4 2004-02-10 13:08:11
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I'd name mine "Mists of Mariner"
Capturing the mysterious essense of Vallis Marinernis...
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#5 2004-02-10 13:54:56
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valintine days should be out lawed there is all ready to much love in the world. We need to get back to whats important in live, building weapons of mass movies that donk suck. Like that Gilglee move that will set americans back years in other countrys. Any ways it should be the woman who buys her man jewery, canndy, and tools. For putting up with with her nagging for all those years, and they wonder why men hate valintines day! :laugh:
I love plants!
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#6 2004-02-10 13:58:25
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Methinks Earthfirst does not yet know the soft smell of budding rose in spring. Love is as gentle as she is harsh, the trick is to taste the rose, without pricking yourself upon the thorn. 
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#7 2004-02-10 14:29:47
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*Nice, Clark and Byron.
Harmakhis Kiss would be garnet in color, and I'd pour it into a golden-tinted vial. Nice Marsian colors. 
--Cindy
P.S.: Ever notice how it's the people who complain most about the opposite gender who usually can't be faithful to just 1 person and want -many- girlfriends/boyfriends? What are people like that called? Suckers for punishment, according to their own viewpoint? Yeah, I think that's it. :laugh:
They usually can't spell, either.
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#8 2004-02-10 14:44:00
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Cindy, to answer your question, I think they are called fundamentalist Mormons. :laugh:
Nice color choice Cindy. I also enjoyed the play on words of your perfume's name.
Echo of Mars would be aqua-marine in color, and the perfume bottle would be a clear thin flute-vase with an old-time stopper on the top (it's dabbed on, never sprayed). Within the perfume bottle would be a small seed, which will start growing upon contact with oxygen (the seed would be secured to the bottom of the vial so as not to have it prematurely grow before the perfume bottle is emptied).
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#9 2004-02-10 15:19:54
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with an old-time stopper on the top (it's dabbed on, never sprayed). Within the perfume bottle would be a small seed, which will start growing upon contact with oxygen (the seed would be secured to the bottom of the vial so as not to have it prematurely grow before the perfume bottle is emptied).
*I had a stopper in mind as well...tear-drop shaped, multifaceted cut (diamond-pattern crystal).
What kind of seed, Clark?
--Cindy
We all know [i]those[/i] Venusians: Doing their hair in shock waves, smoking electrical coronas, wearing Van Allen belts and resting their tiny elbows on a Geiger counter...
--John Sladek (The New Apocrypha)
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#10 2004-02-10 15:30:11
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What kind of seed?! :angry: I thought we were chemists, not biologists. geesh! :laugh:
For simplicities sake, and to appease any who may take issue, a genetically modified Columbian rose seed whose petals change colors based on the surrounding environment. The colors of the petals would cycle between shades of red-orange-green-blue, depending on the temperature, and amount of light received.
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