Posted on 04/29/2008 1:25:02 PM PDT by null and void
People got very excited in 2004 when NASA's rover Opportunity discovered evidence that Mars had once been wet. Where there is water, there may be life. After more than 40 years of human exploration, culminating in the ongoing Mars Exploration Rover mission, scientists are planning still more missions to study the planet. The Phoenix, an interagency scientific probe led by the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory at the University of Arizona, is scheduled to land in late May on Mars's frigid northern arctic, where it will search for soils and ice that might be suitable for microbial life. The next decade might see a Mars Sample Return mission, which would use robotic systems to collect samples of Martian rocks, soils, and atmosphere and return them to Earth. We could then analyze the samples to see if they contain any traces of life, whether extinct or still active.
Such a discovery would be of tremendous scientific significance. What could be more fascinating than discovering life that had evolved entirely independently of life here on Earth? Many people would also find it heartening to learn that we are not entirely alone in this vast, cold cosmos.
But I hope that our Mars probes discover nothing. It would be good news if we find Mars to be sterile. Dead rocks and lifeless sands would lift my spirit.
Conversely, if we discovered traces of some simple, extinct life-form it would be bad news. If we found fossils of something more advanced, perhaps something that looked like the remnants of a trilobite or even the skeleton of a small mammal, it would be very bad news. The more complex the life-form we found, the more depressing the news would be. I would find it interesting, certainly--but a bad omen for the future of the human race.
(Excerpt) Read more at technologyreview.com ...
They deny everything! They even deny the existence of the program ... The coverup is HUGH! But I'm given to understand that the whole thing is being run out of an old, converted missile-silo complex. Those were designed to withstand a nuclear attack ... and many of them are still off-limits.
God to Nick:
1. Who said you qualified as intelligent life?,
2. Who said that your views define the universe?, and
3. News flash - I CAN DO ANYTHING I WANT!
You want interesting try this guy:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/aliens/johnmack.html
They have Top Men working on it.
I hope so, too. We already have enough illegal aliens dropping in on us.
Cool vid. Thanks for the link 8-)
At least 30 years too late.
contracts were signed decades ago.
Of course, the ET’s broke them . . .
They LIKE abducting . . . implanting . . . raping . . . mutilating humans . . . for some unknown reason(s).
And the government essentially seems unable to do anything about it.
Governments are not popular when it becomes known that they can’t perform the basic function of keeping their people safe.
Besides, they love the devil’s agreement that results in technology for the greedy globalists in charge of such things.
No time to wade through all the disinformation and propaganda?
Lots of assumptions . . .
little adequate frame of reference or perspective to even begin to assess reasonably accurately
how off the wall such assumptions may or may not be.
Arrogance on the part of very limited, very constrained observers does not automatically translate into lofty knowledge no matter how convinced the observers are that they are jr gods with reality well understood and measured.
We all see through the glass very darkly and very feebly.
Notions to the contrary are at best grossly overblown.
Stanton Friedman shreds the Fermie paradox quite handily and humorously on his website.
http://www.stantonfriedman.com
His SETI comments:
http://www.v-j-enterprises.com/sfufovsseti.html
ZEN AND THE ART OF DEBUNKERY:
http://www.tcm.phy.cam.ac.uk/~bdj10/scepticism/drasin.html
AN ENGINEER DEMOLISHES THE AIR FORCE’S PROJECT MOGUL IDIOTIC FARCE/DISINFORMATION CRAZINESS
http://www.cufos.org/ros4.html
GOVERNMENT LIES:
http://www.v-j-enterprises.com/sf-government-lies1.html
UFO WHY QUESTIONS:
http://www.v-j-enterprises.com/sf-ufo-why1.html
STANTON’S LETTER OF CHALLENGE TO THE HISTORY CHANNEL
http://www.v-j-enterprises.com/sfhschnl.html
Of course ... you might call their efforts one last crusade.
*grin*
You seem to think that the deadly shuttle is more than a smoke-screen.
No, it was the best we could do at the time, since we don’t have space monster ships to reverse engineer from.
Tooo many credible, plausible people say otherwise, imho.
They should produce the evidence they have, in that case.
You can imagine the challenges and fears and hazards in doing that.
But you can check out the DISCLOSURE PROJECT at Dr Greer’s site and see what you think.
No it wasn't.
The peanut farmer president demanded that it be made of aluminum, not the titanium the engineers called for.
The Columbia and its crew would have survived the tile failure without the great Jimmuh Carter's 2¢ worth of engineering expertise.
Carter. The gift that keeps on giving, and giving, and giving...
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