weemonger

> if the founder wasn't so polarizing

I wanted to nitpick on calling Elon Musk a founder, as Tesla was originally founded by Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning in July 2003.

But as I did my research, I learnt, that he has now legally the status of a co-founder after a settlement. It is up to the reader to think about that.

So to keep my nitpick, I can only say the quoted sentence is missing a "co-" prefix. :p

AFAIK, Russia is building their own (improved/modifed) Shahed drones and no longer buy/import them from Iran.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yelabuga_drone_factory

> to the point where it's run out of munitions

Hopefully, the same can be said to Russia war of aggression and both conflicts stop killing civilians and destroying their infrastructure.

But I do not see, that either conflict stops because an aggressor runs out of ammunition.

Maybe the author mixed it up, with another Martin invasion story called "Two Planets" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_Planets), which was released a bit earlier than War of the Worlds and according to Wikipedia, it "is the earliest known example of the theme of a Beneficial alien invasion".

If someone is interested in "historical" science fiction, I can recommend it.

But nonetheless, if the author is interested in Mars and science fiction, he should be able to keep them apart from another. Maybe an editor wasn't?

> But I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that the pets didn’t even recognize [the robot cat] as an animal.

This reminds of the "Spy in the wild" BBC series, which takes a different take on that. One of the scene I remember the most is this:

Langur monkeys grieve over fake monkey | Spy in the Wild - BBC - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vaIH5tLmC8U

No idea, either.

Probably just to fill the pages and maybe to amaze the reader and spend more time on the ad pages.

I have a german edition of a Battletech novel, which has a similar ad for the same 5-min-soup, and the ad itself introduces the blacked out lines.