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Could you imagine being the first person to ever explore an underground cave system on another planet? On Mars, maybe stromatolites or other bacteria live in t

Could you imagine being the first person to ever explore an underground cave system on another planet? On Mars, maybe stromatolites or other bacteria live in these caves!

stragies 2y ago
Hollywood has made lots of movies where this person then goes on to inadvertently kill us all when they get home to earth. Or crash-land, or ..
lelanthran 2y ago
> Could you imagine being the first person to ever explore an underground cave system on another planet? I think there's a documentary on that: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078748/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078748/
- bazzargh 2y ago
  more appositely https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Men_in_the_Moon_(1964_film) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Men_in_the_Moon_(1964_fi... if we do find a note in the cave saying claimed on behalf of Queen Victoria...probably best to leave.
  - irrational 2y ago
    > they discover a battered Union Jack flag on the surface and a handwritten note, dated some 65 years earlier, claiming the moon on behalf of Queen Victoria. Stranger still, the note is written on the back of a court summons for one Katherine Callender from the village of Dymchurch in England. This reads like the beginning of a Doctor Who episode.
    - bazzargh 2y ago
      Nigel Kneale, who wrote the screenplay, famously wrote Quatermass, so you're in the right area - that was a big influence on early Who. Kneale hated the idea of Doctor Who though, and refused to write for it - he said "It sounded a terrible idea and I still think it was." (specifically, he hated that it was designed to frighten small children)
      - robbiep 2y ago
        I’d never heard that it was designed to frighten children, but it tracks, I have vivid memories of it as a kid!
        mbonnet 2y ago
        Hell I'm still majorly spooked by The Waters of Mars.
brcmthrowaway 2y ago
It was probably visited by the Annunaki living on planet X
ancientworldnow 2y ago
The best part of caving as a sport and science is that you can find and explore virgin systems here on Earth still.
- shiroiushi 2y ago
  There's a really good documentary movie about this too: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0435625/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0435625/

Could you imagine being the first person to ever explore an underground cave system on another planet? On Mars, maybe stromatolites or other bacteria live in these caves!

stragies 2y ago

Hollywood has made lots of movies where this person then goes on to inadvertently kill us all when they get home to earth. Or crash-land, or ..

lelanthran 2y ago

> Could you imagine being the first person to ever explore an underground cave system on another planet? I think there's a documentary on that: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078748/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078748/

bazzargh 2y ago
more appositely https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Men_in_the_Moon_(1964_film) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Men_in_the_Moon_(1964_fi... if we do find a note in the cave saying claimed on behalf of Queen Victoria...probably best to leave.
- irrational 2y ago
  > they discover a battered Union Jack flag on the surface and a handwritten note, dated some 65 years earlier, claiming the moon on behalf of Queen Victoria. Stranger still, the note is written on the back of a court summons for one Katherine Callender from the village of Dymchurch in England. This reads like the beginning of a Doctor Who episode.
  - bazzargh 2y ago
    Nigel Kneale, who wrote the screenplay, famously wrote Quatermass, so you're in the right area - that was a big influence on early Who. Kneale hated the idea of Doctor Who though, and refused to write for it - he said "It sounded a terrible idea and I still think it was." (specifically, he hated that it was designed to frighten small children)
    - robbiep 2y ago
      I’d never heard that it was designed to frighten children, but it tracks, I have vivid memories of it as a kid!
      - mbonnet 2y ago
        Hell I'm still majorly spooked by The Waters of Mars.

brcmthrowaway 2y ago

It was probably visited by the Annunaki living on planet X

ancientworldnow 2y ago

The best part of caving as a sport and science is that you can find and explore virgin systems here on Earth still.

shiroiushi 2y ago
There's a really good documentary movie about this too: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0435625/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0435625/