1/28/2024 0 Comments Barsoom 2.5It is a radium generator diffusing radioactivity in all directions to a distance of 30 ads from the flier. The instrument itself is below deck, geared both to the steering apparatus and the control levers. A visible device switches the mechanism on or off. Kuljoog : The “obstruction evader” invented by Carthoris. ![]() “At the intersection of our crossroad with the wide, white turnpike which cuts each cultivated district longitudinally at its exact center.” A broad highway parallels them and at regular intervals, crosses over a low bridge. Farm labor is supplied by convicts, prisoners of war, delinquent debtors and bachelors who are too poor to pay the “celibate tax” imposed by the red nations to encourage the raising of children. The farm houses are on columns and can be raised at night or for emergencies out of harm’s way. They are bordered by rich farmlands or “cultivated districts”, groves of tall trees, farm houses and stables. The water does not flood the soil, but is delivered via small tubes to the roots directly. The water is collected in immense underground reservoirs at either pole from the melting ice caps, and pumped through long conduits to the various populated centers. They measure 45 haads (around 16-17 miles) across. Kor : The “canals” or artificial waterways dug by the ancients which bring water from the poles to the farmlands. The advent of John Carter acted as an additional catalyst. ![]() Until recently, which may be described as a scientific renaissance on Barsoom, innovation had been at a standstill. The reason for this is quite simple – almost all technology is the product of ancient minds. Not only are they waging a continual battle against nature, which is slowly diminishing their already scant atmosphere, but from birth to death they are constantly faced by the stern necessity of defending themselves against enemy nations of their own race and the great hordes of roving green warriors of the dead sea bottom while within the walls of their own cities are countless professional assassins, whose calling is so well recognized that in some localities they are organized into guilds. ![]() Science, literature, art and architecture are in some of their departments further advanced upon Barsoom than upon Earth, a remarkable thing when one considers the constant battle for survival which is the most marked characteristic of life on the planet.
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