ATTENDANCE AT MARTIAN CONFERENCE HEARTENING

Not too many genuflects ago, we Martians were at a loss to explain Earthling “thought balloon technology”. Now, after genuflects of research, we have been able to put together a conference of Martian linguists and automationists who have been able to not only discuss but also to duplicate Earthling thought balloons. There is much debate as to what use such technology was put. An even older, eye-looking communication form than thought balloon technology was the naval art of semifor, (which for some inexplicable reason means, as far as we can decipher, “"semi" one-half of "for”"). This earthling communication form employed flags and other signaling devices to visually communicate from one floating thing to another on the great water places of the Earth Globe. However, with the advent of long distance signal sending by electric and light pulses such as we ourselves use, Earthlings would no longer need to be within eye-looking of each other in order to communicate. So why did they continue to use thought balloons in their vitally important comic book communications? One question answered leads to another question. So it is with scientific endeavors.

As you can visionate in the photo on the right, many Martian scientists have emitted thought balloons of yellow colour in the press photo, still we are not able to decipher the symbols on those bright yellow balloons. For verisimilitude, linguists used Earthling symbology. The symbols were borrowed from a “yellow pages” book, a cryptology book in which number systems are matched up with other language symbols that we are still unable to decipher, and that is why the balloons are yellow, so it would seem.

I was quite proud to be in attendance and though you cannot see my beaming facade in the photo, I am there, hidden among my friends and colleagues, trying gamely to blow up a balloon thought or two of my own.

See you next posting,

He Who Towers