"When humans visit Mars, they'll have to watch out for towering electrified dust devils".
...a NASA news release, dated July 14, 2005
The NASA release described a typical dust devil on Mars as a "monster column towering kilometers high and hundreds of meters wide, 10 times larger than any tornado on Earth". With "red-brown sand and dust whipping around faster than 30 meters per second (70 miles per hour)" in zero visibility. And incessant crackling and flashing of miniature lightning.
6 Flags Over Texas will no doubt announce this as their newest thrill ride. Storm chaser-goobers will race to be first, their baseball-size hail-dented 4x4s lined up in row after row of parking lot machismo.
Somehow, with the problems Disney has been having with its ride riders, I can't imagine their opening ToweringElectrifiedDustDevilTornadoGonadShockerLand.
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