If you’ve seen the Martian Canals card, have not yet had the opportunity to pick up the Martians Canals card, are wondering if Martians are really building canals, and refuse to Google any facts related to CUE cards as everything you ever need to know is summed up so neatly in the funny, succinct and easily digestible card backs (awh, thank you!) - here’s the oddly specific CUE post of your dreams!
"If you like the ones in Amsterdam, you’ll love the Martian Canals! A slight caveat: they don’t exist. Let me explain.
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries astronomers mistakenly believed they had discovered "canals" on the Red Planet. Using the high-tech gear of their day (early telescopes without photography), they spotted these so-called canals, inspiring grand visions of interstellar waterways.
The Italian astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli kicked off the trend during 1877, referring to these features as "canali," or "channels." But English-speaking astronomers got lost in translation and started calling them "canals."
In the 20th century, NASA’s Mariner IV put speculation to bed when it photographed the planet and found that there were no canals at all. On closer inspection, it had just been an optical illusion."
Well, there you have it. Hardly worth bringing up then really.
If you’ve seen the Martian Canals card, have not yet had the opportunity to pick up the Martians Canals card, are wondering if Martians are really building canals, and refuse to Google any facts related to CUE cards as everything you ever need to know is summed up so neatly in the funny, succinct and easily digestible card backs (awh, thank you!) - here’s the oddly specific CUE post of your dreams!
"If you like the ones in Amsterdam, you’ll love the Martian Canals! A slight caveat: they don’t exist. Let me explain.
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries astronomers mistakenly believed they had discovered "canals" on the Red Planet. Using the high-tech gear of their day (early telescopes without photography), they spotted these so-called canals, inspiring grand visions of interstellar waterways.
The Italian astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli kicked off the trend during 1877, referring to these features as "canali," or "channels." But English-speaking astronomers got lost in translation and started calling them "canals."
In the 20th century, NASA’s Mariner IV put speculation to bed when it photographed the planet and found that there were no canals at all. On closer inspection, it had just been an optical illusion."
Well, there you have it. Hardly worth bringing up then really.
