Mars ice could flood planet

BBC News ^ | Tuesday, 28 May, 2002, 15:56 GMT 16:56 UK | Dr David Whitehouse

[Fedupwithit]

Oh no!! Our Greenhouse gases are out of control! We are starting to affect Mars!!

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[Oldeconomybuyer]

Inter-Galactic planetary warming is real threat to our solar system.

[kinghorse]

Send the Algae!

[Neanderthal]

"Send the Algae!"

LOL. I just saw the movie on cable. Be sure and bring Russian batteries . . .

[Cagey]

Quick. Someone call Noah the Martian.

[Krafty123]

Aren't there higher areas like our continents? Or deep craters that would fill? Certainly Mons Olympus wouldn't go under...

Ari

[Fedupwithit]

Noah the Martian?

Please tell me you meant Marvin the Martian..

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[aShepard]

"We can see an awful lot of water there," said Dr Boynton, "but why should it stop there? It may go down 10 metres, a 100 metres or even kilometres

A 1 to 10 ratio, or 1 to 1000 ratio. So, they have no idea how much ice is down there.

If Mars were to become much warmer for some reason and the ice melted, it would drench the planet to an average depth of between half and one kilometre.

Or, a 1 to 2 ratio.

Great scientists, time to put them to work on the sea heights after global warming.

[PoorMuttly]

It's really getting hard to hide in this solar system.

Activate Plan 9.

Over and out.

[pabianice]

Cool! A 54,000,000,000 square mile skaing rink, open all year!

[INSENSITIVE GUY]

Better get there quick,build some dams,lakes and stock them with fish.

[UCANSEE2]

Gee, I don't know why we are so blind.

Mars had an atmosphere, oceans,land masses, just like Earth.

BUT, they tainted their fresh water sources. They used up the fertility of their soil. All the land based life and plants died. The soil, no longer held in place by plants, turned into dust storms. Eventually the atmoshphere, for the most part vanished.

The atmosphere there, and here on Earth, is a system that is in a very delicate balance. The outer parts protect us from certain rays of the sun, and help to hold in the nitrogen/oxygen and other gases we breathe. These gases are put there BY THE PLANTS. If you destroy the ability of the soil to grow plants, it is not long before all landbased life dies. Without plants to regenerate the atmosphere, the balance of the layers in the atmosphere is corrupted, and it slowly dissipates. The land is ravaged by wind storms, all signs of life are covered over with dust, and eventually the oceans freeze.

This is what happened to Mars, and we will make Earth the same, if we are not more careful.

[yankeedame]

This is a joke, right?

[UCANSEE2]

This is a joke, right?

The Martians aren't laughing

[Balding_Eagle]

You overestimate mans influence. Not nice.

[Sonny M]

Hey if your right, damn, you know how much oil would be there? We could strip mine the damn place straight to hell. Of course I assume your just joking, since you do understand that there is no known signs of life ever having been there, and making a theory up about it without evidence is a sign of mental illness.

[jrewingjr]

Richard C. Hoagland is on Art Bell NOW talking about the ice on Mars. No audio link, but here is the link to the site for more info. Art Bell

[UCANSEE2]

since you do understand that there is no known signs of life ever having been there, and making a theory up about it without evidence is a sign of mental illness.

Well, then, there are a ton of mentally ill scientists because there are significant signs of life on Mars. The life may currently be on the microscopic scale, but there are signs.

[weegee]

Look how cold dinosaur farts made Earth. Now we're facing a global warming "disaster" caused by methane emission from cows. < /sarcasm >

[weegee]

If Mars floods, it'll somehow be the fault of "evil" Republicans.