Marvellous Boxes (03) - Facing Cydonia
Decoder Ring Theatre
Gregg Taylor
4.8 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 14 May 2012
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Author Tim Prasil's "Marvellous Boxes" has taken us to new worlds of the imagination, but this week we see that we might not be as ready as we think to visit them in real life. Months into an isolation test designed to test gear for an eventual mission to Mars, a crew faces equipment failures, shortages and a mysteriously shrinking population. Would they be equal to the task if they were suddenly... Facing Cydonia?
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of the Decoder Ring Theatre podcast is brought to you by the mystery novel Blackjack Justice by Greg Taylor. |
| 0:07.6 | Available now in both print and Kindle editions from Amazon.com. |
| 0:12.0 | And while you're there, complete your Tales of the Red Panda adventure novel series. |
| 0:16.2 | That's Blackjack Justice and Tales of the Red Panda. |
| 0:19.2 | Get your copies today. |
| 0:42.0 | A space. A place, infinite, endless. |
| 0:52.4 | As far as the eye can see row on row of shelves, on every shelf, side by side, boxes. |
| 0:55.5 | Within each box a puzzle, |
| 0:58.1 | a person, a universe, |
| 1:01.6 | endless worlds of the imagination all hailed within these |
| 1:04.3 | marvelous boxes. |
| 1:07.2 | Marvelous boxes. |
| 1:09.2 | An anthology series of tales for the active mind. |
| 1:13.0 | This week, Facing Sidonia. |
| 1:21.3 | Devon Island sits in the Arctic Circle in northern Canada. |
| 1:25.5 | The landscape there is harsh and barren, and the weather is relentlessly |
| 1:29.1 | cruel. The island is one of the few places on Earth that approximates conditions astronauts would |
| 1:34.9 | face on Mars. In fact, Devon Island's similarity to a Martian environment inspired scientists |
| 1:42.5 | to build a live-in laboratory there. |
| 1:45.0 | The station has strict rules. |
| 1:47.0 | If one goes outside, one suits up, as if for an oxygen-deficient atmosphere. |
| 1:52.0 | Contact with the outer world involves a delay of 20 minutes, about the time it would take |
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