Posted on 03/02/2004 10:59:40 AM PST by Dog
NASA is to hold a news conference at 2 pm eastern announcing a major discovery/finding from the Rovers.
I wasn't until the relatively recent past that "life was impossible" in the deep ocean trenches by the boiling hot "smokers". When Mt. St.Helens blew up and "sterilized" the area with white hot ash and buried all life in dozens of feet of steril volcanic material scientists were surprised to discover "critters" growing in the "pristine" pools NEXT SPRING. As we drill deep within this planet it is difficult to find NO LIFE. . . EVEN IN "IMPOSSIBLE" PLACES.
I'm thinking they're thinking!!!
I'm late to the party, Graewoulf. Please point me to the object of your comment.
DESPITE the "Alleged Debunking" of the "High-Res-Pics," There is "Sufficient Data" to Warrant a CAREFUL, Well-Documented & Well Researched Study of the "Cydonia Site!!"
Nothing Less than a Human Expedition to the Site will EVER "Solve the 'Mystery'" of that Totally Enigmatic series of Photographs!
& NOW, There's Mounting Hard Evidence that we can find Water on Mars!!
We have NO OPTION, but to go there.
Since the Dawn of Human "Sociological-Biologic History," our Species has "Expanded" to EVERY Available Socio-Biolologic Niche. --The Planet ,Mars, is NO DIFFERENT! "Willy-Nilly-" we will "Go to Mars,!" --Because our Species EXPANDS, IRRESPECTIVE OF our BEST INTENTIONS to Control our "Impulse" to "Go Out!!"
We WILL, "GO OUT!!"
THAT is our "FATE,"--our Genetic & Cultural 'DESTINY!!'"
Doc
They aren't sand dunes - and the watery history of Mars is just now beginning.
"I Hear it, Too....."
We are "Better Than" the Suffocating Future envisioned by Those Who Assumme that we are Trapped on this Planet in a "Zero-Sum" Framework--that "Those Who Prosper" MUST diminish "Those who Lose!"
SUCH a "Social Arrangement" Has NEVER BEEN the Basis of our Economics!
Our Economics have ALWAYS been "Predicated On" the Concept that "Greater Profit creates greater expenditures," creates Greater Production, Creates More Jobs, Creates More Demand for the "Product," Creates More Jobs!
While the "System" is Imperfect, & Fluctuates, the "Average" of the Wealth of It's Participants seems to Steadily increase.
Because the "System" isn't "Closed,"--Because R&D keeps adding value to both Labor & Product,--ALL "Participants" in the "Socio-Economic" System can Increase their Worth;--AS LONG AS the "SYSTEM" CONTINUES to invent Furthur Societally Useful Products/Processes!
THIS is NOT a "ZERO-SUM Process!"
EACH NEW "Product/Process" ADDS VALUE & CREATES Wealth & Employment!
Doc
I'm gonna have to come up with my own ping list.
The resident "lunatic fringe" geologist is about to make a prognostication:
Just as Earth has life in the most inhospitable regions (black smokers, under the Antarctic ice sheets), Mars may indeed still have some life left. Although, it would likely be in deep, warm pockets of saline water. It therefore behooves us to get there as quickly as possible, perhaps to preserve some organisms from dying ecosystems.
Also...the presence of vast amounts of water on Mars implies something else...plate tectonics.
Thorazine aint so bad. And that blue gown? . . . uh . . . on you it might be stunning.
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