LOL - Maybe the backstory is that there was a real Star Wars in a galaxy far,far away and Mars was peripheral damage ? Another strained coincidence behind this bit of "lockdown lunacy" is the description of the nuke in the paper, which seems to roughly match the Oumuamua "asteroid" of a few months ago - the one which was very elongated... and... a Harvard genius claimed could be of alien origin.
Truth is sometimes stranger than fiction but nuking Mars is beyond nutty... MSF wrote: I liked PKD's original titles better. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, We Can Remember It for You Wholesale, and so on.
