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Audio Video Interleaved Video  |  1980-01-04  |  20.2 MB  |  368x276  |  15fps  |  1 minute, 2 seconds
Transcription: The Italian astronomer Schiaparelli discovered a complex web of lines on the planet Mars. He called them canali. This translated into English as canals. Indeed. And the word canal suggested that they were built by intelligent beings, martians. But this thesis was refuted. Yes it was in 1907 by Alfred Wallace and then finally disproven by space probes in the 1970s. But martian canals are still in the news because the IRC, the Interplanetary Resource Consortium, has announced that it will soon be building the first Martian canal in the region of Kantor Valles and within a year or two the IRC pro ...