Showing posts with label zachary walzer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label zachary walzer. Show all posts

Friday, 4 March 2011

Walzer's Diagrams

In the first of a few posts I'll be doing on easter eggs, here are some screenshots of Walzer's workings as seen in episode 2. I've no idea if any of this makes sense, so if anyone can knows please post a comment.

These two are the board in the abortive seminar:





Disclaimer: I love maps! This looks like an old-ish possibly Dutch map of Mars. You can see "Assumed 16th March 1983" and "too late" written on it. It has similarities with an 1883 map you can view here: they both have the names Mädler Land and Huygens Land. If anyone can find a decent copy of this map on the net, or identify it, please post in the comments. I'm going to be doing further research on this.



This is the diagram Walzer uses in the flashback. My favourite easter egg I think in this episode is the date: six days before 9/11. If the committee were wary of funding a Mars mission before 9/11 they certainly weren't going to do it after.


Please post a comment if you have any insights or observations.

Monday, 21 February 2011

Zachary Walzer ≈ Robert Zubrin

I have just come across this interesting titbit here. Zachary Walzer seems to be very much like a real life person Robert Zubrin. Apparently not happy with only being the lead advocate for the human settlement of Mars, he also invented three-player chess. I bet he's an interesting dinner party guest.