Notes & Queries response: Will we ever set up an outpost on another planet?
This is my response to a question that appeared on the Notes & Queries page of The Guardian website on 21st November, 2022. The Guardian is apparently no longer happy to host my comments on their site, so it is appearing here instead. This blog is obviously not affiliated with The Guardian. Its reference to a question that appeared in Notes & Queries is presented here under the terms of fair use. ~ Will we ever set up an outpost on another planet? image generated by Craiyon In July of 2020, Elizabeth Mose discovered that someone had built a house on her land. “We're sitting on 26 acres,” she says. “I hadn't been going out of the house much on account of the COVID. Anyway I went to check the fences along the west side because we'd had some high winds blowing in from that direction. As I was getting nearer to the property boundary, I could see this solid looking block in the middle of the field, and I thought maybe someone's abandoned a trailer there. “When I got ...