{"id":13171,"date":"2013-04-28T10:28:19","date_gmt":"2013-04-28T15:28:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.howderfamily.com\/blog\/?p=13171"},"modified":"2022-04-28T06:29:47","modified_gmt":"2022-04-28T11:29:47","slug":"mars-venus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.howderfamily.com\/blog\/mars-venus\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvanians are From Mars, Texans are From Venus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I keep a close eye on the geographic characteristics of Twelve Mile Circle visitors, which seems natural for a geo-oddity website. I also generate article topics from viewer anomalies. For example, I never knew about Mars in Pennsylvania (map<\/a>) until a Martian visitor, one from a spot north of Pittsburgh as it turned out, jumped onto the site and explored a few pages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Mars<\/a>
Take me to your leader!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Mars, I noticed, included a Mars Picnic Shelter, a Mars Skating Rink, a Mars Athletic Field and a Mars Cemetery, so insert your preferred joke here. I kind of enjoyed the though of a burial on Mars although Martian ice skating seemed promising too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Naturally if there’s a Mars then there must be a Venus. Colonies of Venusians lived in many places including Texas<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then I wondered if I could find a town named for each planet. I managed to get about halfway through my research when I discovered that someone already beat me to it<\/a>. He turned to the same U.S. Geological Survey database I would have used and completed the effort a year before 12MC even existed. View that website if you’d like a comprehensive list of planetary towns within the United States. Keep reading if you’d like the usual 12MC treatment: examining places in more detail; sprinkling in a few international locations; and lame attempts at entertainment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Starting closest to the sun (Sun City?<\/a>) and working outward, the 12MC spaceship landed first on…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mercury<\/h2>\n\n\n\n