Posted on 06/04/2011 6:05:41 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
We have all heard of little green men from Mars.
But now an American 'armchair astronaut' claims to have discovered a mysterious structure on the surface of the red planet - by looking on Google earth.
David Martines, whose YouTube video of the 'station' has racked up over 200,000 hits so far, claims to have randomly uncovered the picture while scanning the surface of the planet one day.
Describing the 'structure' as a living quarters with red and blue stripes on it, to the untrained eye it looks nothing more than a white splodge on an otherwise unblemished red landscape.
He even lists the co-ordinates 49'19.73"N 29 33'06.53"W so others can go see the anomaly for themselves.
In a pre recorded 'fly by' video of the object, Mr Martines describes what he thinks the station might be.
He said: 'This is a video of something I discovered on Google Mars quite by accident.
'I call it Bio-station Alpha, because I'm just assuming that something lives in it or has lived in it.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
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Heh...
LOL, perfect!
I nearly forgot — there was a flap about a “skylight” on Mars. FR topics are available.
And the skulls, don’t forget those:
http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01394/skull_1394856c.jpg
http://brainwagon.org/images/mars-skull.jpg
and crinoids:
http://www.david-sadler.org/image/science/mars/CrinoidFossil.jpg
and on Earth, another giant face, with iPod:
http://www.badastronomy.com/pix/bablog/2006/albertaindian.jpg
Don’t forget about the lake on Mars!
http://www.marsanomalyresearch.com/evidence-reports/2000/002/first-water.htm
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Ack ack ack!
Cindy Shehan?
That’s the very things. Seems to me there’s also some kind of fruity myth about Martian blueberries, but I didn’t have the heart to re-experience that kind of foolishness, and didn’t do a search.
Did you see the link I posted where you can see a lake on Mars (liquid water, not water ice)? If it is warm enough for Mars to have lakes and plant life then we really need to send astronauts to Mars. If there are artificial structures there we need to investigate those, too!
It’s NASA’s secret space program on Mars!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxssIc4HUNM
Of possible interest to the ping list, the youtube video mentioned in above posting #22.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=sTJt0LJZG2k
The is occasionally liquid water on Mars, but its transitory. There are no permanent standing water bodies on Mars. There are no known artificial structures. Interestingly enough, the Phobos-as-artificial idea was first floated by the late Carl Sagan I think. But there’s nothing to it. Phobos is an irregular rock, probably a former asteroid. Mars has two apparently captured Moons — there’s a mystery worth investigating!
and on Earth, another giant face, with iPod:
http://www.badastronomy.com/pix/bablog/2006/albertaindian.jpg
Wonder if anything was found at the excavation site????
Thanks, heh, I’ve got more, you shouldn’t encourage me. ;’)
After getting a body of experience at making that months-long trip, and working in Mars orbit, then returning, while maintaining a continuous human presence there, and thoroughly surveying parts of the surface, it would be time to drop crews down to take a look and build habitats.
My first choice would be to drop in a pretty large, perhaps articulated, motor home style live-in rover, which would be checked out remotely before getting its first crew. Then the crew would land, attach their lander to the bumper (a trailer, actually), and explore the surface in person, in a shirtsleeve environment, protected from the continuous hail of particles and rocks from space. Like the Moon, Mars has a surface where the dominant force at work is impact. Mars also has a tenuous atmosphere which leads to sandstorms, but ultimately impact rules.
The surface exploration could go on throughout the sunny season, using photovoltaics for all or most energy needs. Probably the equatorial area, which gets sunlight all year round, would be the place to land the vehicle.
Fuel for the return to orbit might be brought along on the drop, or might be dropped in later at a rendezvous point. Hate to be wrong about that though, eh? Fixed habitats could actually be prefabricated on Earth and robotically deployed upon landing. They’d be big plastic bag greenhouses. Also needed would be an earthen barrier surrounding the greenhouses, against an outbreak of the sandstorms. Such a barrier would be some protection, but the plastic would definitely have to be tough, and anchored into the ground (and not just at the edge) with long augers.
And crap dropping from space would damage the greenhouses, so duct tape would be needed all the time.
The fixed habitats would need to be near a water supply, and probably be equatorial so that photovoltaics could supply the power needed for melting the subsurface ice, nighttime lighting, heating, and other needs.
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