Planetary Pioneer Prints

Life Discovered on Mars

"Sadie, they found a planet orbiting Proxima Centauri. That makes way over 1,000 planets we've discovered in my lifetime." "It must be exciting for you, discovering there are 1,000 worlds full of people who can't possibly know what a doofus you are." "...Unless they've got telescopes." "It is exciting. Now I know how you must've felt when Oog the Caveman discovered Venus." "I see you're bringing what passes for your 'A-game' today."

Spaceman

Fifty years of deprivation for the colonists...

"We've really had it this time."

Rocket

Rocket Launch Control Centre Back in 10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1

"The Ice Age must've caught him by surprise..."

"No, you're in the Milky Way galaxy."

'Gravity...Go figure!'

'The good news is we've discovered a vast new oil resource. The bad news is we need a space ship to get there.'

'You're about to see a drive for the ages!'

TV - MARS, weather: 'Very hot and dry days, bitterly cold nights and no precipitation for the next several million years!'

Cosmic Rays: Large cartilaginous interstellar space-dwelling fish of the order Myliobatiformes. Feed on planets containing plankton and small schooling fish.

'...it's some distance away - but there are lots of 'em and they're edible.'

"AS a matter of fact, yes, you have told me you vacationed on Earth."

"Yahoo! We struck earthfriendly oil."

'It's better than we expected. Now the sheep produce wool in the winter and cotton in the summer.'

"I don't know. He just said he had discovered something and we had to come over and see it."

'Another invention? -- You are SUCH a geek!'

"Listen, the first pterodactyl of spring."

'I can't help thinking there's something else we can do with this.'

"Isn't Mars over that way?"

Genetic Research and Engineering Department (sign has 6 fingers)

Man cold-calling on phone from igloo

'And that's how we discovered curly genes, or, as Dr. Crick insists on calling them, 'DNA'.'

"Houston - we are landing in the crater now. . . on first viewing, this planet looks uninhabited. . ."

Only in the newspapers.

Solo North pole expedition - 'Bugger!'

'Him?.. Oh, he's the guy who discovered fire.'

Map of Solar System from Memory.

Leap Year

'Would you watch where you're going already.'

'Uh, no offense, but is there other life here?'

Humans and aliens have landed on new planet at the same time.