Mars’ Moon Phobos Undergoing ‘Structural Failure’

universetoday.com ^ | on November 10, 2015 | Nancy Atkinson

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Sheila Jackson Lee (Democrat)
Member of the U.S. House
of Representatives
from Texas's 18th district

On a visit to the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in 2005, Jackson Lee made embarrassing news by asking if the Mars Pathfinder had taken an image of the flag planted there in 1969 by Neil Armstrong.[2]

Prior to the 110th Congress, Jackson Lee served on the House Science Committee and on the Subcommittee that oversees space policy and NASA.

http://web.archive.org/web/20100409095818/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheila_Jackson_Lee

[elcid1970]

When the Martian satellite finally implodes, we can expect that Muslim, gay, & black Phobians will be hardest hit.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Nah, the Phobians will be hardest hit. I feel sorry for clastrophobes, arachnophobes, triskaidekaphobes, blennophobes, and bathophobes.

[Sequoyah101]

Yup. Not like it has not been there a long time and just suddenly decided to self destruct when we started looking at it.

By the way, how is the leg? Still got your scorpions?

[Sequoyah101]

Well, I’m not happy about it. No sir, not one bit happy about it. All my travel plans have now changed and I didn’t get the trip insurance.

[r_barton]

The nougat center of Phobos must be drying out. ;-)

[MHGinTN]

Okay, so what is the monolith on its surface, an internal girder poking through?

[Balding_Eagle]

‘I would like to see this happen. It’s on my bucket list.’

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I grew up on a farm, so I know about buckets.

They’re crude, heavy, awkward, bang against your legs when you walk. They drag you down in the mud.

I don’t do ‘bucket lists’ for that very reason.

I have dreams and desires.

Those dreams and desires lift me up, straining for the sky, instead of pulling me down in the mud.

There are stars up there, beams of light so wistful they carry me away with their hopes.

I have many things on my dream list.

It’s light as a feather.

[Sirius Lee]

Yup. Microgravity aggression.

[JPG]

[al baby]

Or Uranus for that matter

[butlerweave]

Oh look a Pinhead

[PLMerite]

Actually, it's the egg of a really big pissed-off bird, and it's getting ready to hatch:

[Colonel_Flagg]

The wind shifted.

But as for the scorpions, I’m entitled to bite off your left ear.

[elcid1970]

CRUZ or lose in 2016 indeed!

;^)

[Slyfox]

Sounds like that old Climate Change is at it again.

[Telepathic Intruder]

Saturn’s rings are in fact thought to be the result of a moon wandering too close to the Roche limit and breaking apart, just like this says Phobos is about to do.

[jmacusa]

Mars has been exerting it's gravitational pull on it's two moons since the solar system formed. Eventually it'll pull the two of them to pieces as Saturn did two the many moons that once were part of it's orbit.

[Larry Lucido]

I fear Mars’ moon. I’m a Phobophobe.

[Sequoyah101]

I met a Colonel one time up at Rock Island that was a dead ringer for Flagg. He had teeth like a horse!

Sorry about the wind.