So, the Tharks grab John Carter and take him into town, after which they demand that he demonstrate his physical prowess; y’know, faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive, able to leap tall buildings in a single bound. The science here is admittedly dubious, but scientific accuracy was hardly the point of pulp fiction.
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Even as a boy I smiled at John’s Radium pistol and the slaves working in the Radium mines. I imagine they had a rather high turnover…
Hmm.. Doesn’t *look* like he lived forever. I wonder whether they remembered his name.
I was honestly impressed by how much they know at the time this book was written. I mean, yeah, what they did with the information in this story was ludicrous, but it at least had a flimsy basis in knowledge about Mars and gravity on other planets and such.
Pff, stopping a bullet with your body is easy. It’s doing it multiple times and surviving that’s the tricky bit.
Yeah multiple ones need someone to hold you up
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Billboard on Mars:
Clothes: So Earth…