18. "RE: H2G2: The Fleet of Fog"
In response to message #16
>On another note, reading about the Fog makes me marvel at the tenacity >(or foolishness, whichever you prefer) of Earthmen in general. All the >shit Earth goes through, you'd think people would just abandon planet, >drop quarantine markers in orbit ("WARNING: THIS PLANET IS THE SANDBOX >OF A MAD GOD") and find a nice new M-class world somewhere to call >Earth 2.
I've often thought that about the Earths of the Doctor Who and Marvel Comics universes, both of which contain as an explicit conceit the "a disproportionate amount of crazy shit happens to this planet for no reason anybody can figure" thing.
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