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Martian cloud cover, followed by a clearing that disclosed substantial melting of the polar caps and the sudden presence of a broad, darkened band around the equatorial regions suggestive of vegetation), causing densification of the atmosphere from the release of gases formerly frozen in surface soil? All that need be done to blur the real information re such long-range, "aerating" methods (that might randomly blow across the surface of attention) is free—associate its half heard features playing at the borderland of the collective sleep, along a line of similarities leading right down again to dreams—so that what is heard is heard in an oneiric noise of "alien reactors concealed in the trivinium mines" which, when started, furnish the nuclear solution of the monopolized air—supply by melting the icy Martian core and freeing "enough oxygen for the whole planet". As a correlated means of getting the public acclimated to a feasible "Martian climate" (engineered to support a viable ecosystem while being simultaneously colonized), there might be a concurrent acceleration or judicious seeding of scientific articles, magnifying interest in a managerial promotion of Martian "ecopoiesis", i.e. the production of viable life-support on a lifeless planetary body (so as to gradually shift the common attention toward—subliminal—acceptance of the projected "new home" to be occupied on inevitable abandonment of abused "spaceship Earth"—where most would nonetheless assume the awaiting, ready—made roles of slaves for the "masters" who had secretly preceded them, and secured their own positions). Such articles (an example of which currently appears on the last page of December's Scientific American, mirabile dictu!) would emphasize the need to warm the Martian climate, reduce reflectivity of the caps so as to liquefy its permafrost coat, release any trapped materials from the crust needed to participate in biogeochemical cycles, enrich the thickened atmosphere with trace—quantities of greenhouse gas, promote a self-sustaining microbial ecosystem mirroring Earth's nitrogen cycle with revived or specially—engineered organisms... The reason for all of this should never be directly addressed, of course—it should be presented as platonic speculation of the pure—science variety, and argued if at all simply from the "ethical" standpoint—i.e. whether what "is" defines what "ought to be", and thus whether we have tacit Divine approval for our theoretical project. 103 T-Bird_Vs_The_Flying_saucers.htm Homer's Odyssey Pilot