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Posted on 01/03/2004 10:07:02 PM PST by doug from upland
Well, I suspect that Art will have some good Mars discussions tonight. It is a big night for our space program.
The northern hemisphere of Mars is only sparsely cratered, compared to the heavily cratered southern hemisphere. A huge crustal dichotomy exists between the northern and southern hemispheres of Mars. The southern crust is so much thicker than the northern that the center of mass of Mars is offset from its center of figure by 3.6 km. Moreover, the thick southern crust drops abruptly to the level of the northern lowlands, with the surface sloping down 4 or 5 km in a span of just a few hundred kilometers near the present equator. But there are no mountain rings nor catastrophic impacts to mark the boundary between highlands and lowlands, so the cause of what is presumed to have been the destruction of the ancient northern curst is generally considered unknown....
This picture is indeed very much what the exploded planet hypothesis (eph) with Mars as a nearby moon would expect. The actual data for Mars are so close to expectations that one even sees evidence that many of the impacts on the southern hemisphere near the equator were northward-directed grazing impacts. In fact, the cratering on Mars is more diverse than on any other planet or satellite in the solar system. The southern highland craters generally have low rims and shallow depths (as if considerable in-filling occurred); the craters smaller than 30 km are too few in number (as if erased by near-simultaneous larger impact events); and that the "erosion" episode apparently consisted of a "pulse" contemporary with the valley network formation. We might well ask where this "pulse" came from if not a nearby exploded planet.
He also cites that Mars has a relatively slow spin, that its original atmosphere is gone, that there was abundant short-term water on Mars, and that there is excess xenon 129 on Mars (a second-order nuclear fission by-product). He puts this catastrophe about 3 million years ago.
December 15, 2003, Art Bell interviewed Professor Michio Kaku, theoretical (rather than astro) physicist. The man is beyond brilliant, yet Professor Kaku speaks in terms even those with no science background can understand. Here's a small excerpt from Art Bell's site:
"Nuclear Scenarios
Monday's guest, theoretical physicist Prof. Michio Kaku (mkaku.org) joined Art Bell (who was sitting in for George) in a conversation about the dark side of nuclear energy. Kaku detailed various little-known nuclear mishaps from earlier decades, such as a Soviet incident that happened in the Ural Mountains in the 1950's, which he called "the mother-of-all nuclear accidents before Chernobyl." The reactor was actually in flames and entire villages had to be evacuated, he noted."
"'I would say I'm critical of nuclear power,' Kaku said, pointing out that having a potentially unstable reactor near a large population center such as Indian Point (which is 20 miles away from New York City) creates a dangerous scenario."
"But while he believes small nation states and terrorists may soon have access to nuclear weapons technology, he suggested that the world was probably closer to the brink of extinction during the Cold War, when both the US and the Soviets seriously considered a first strike, which likely would have lead to a 'nuclear winter'..."
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How come there isnt a continuous artbell thread? Hoagland flat out said Nasa has proof of life on Mars tonight...
I hope al Qaeda isn't on Mars. Wait, maybe we can give them Mars and get rid of them. Maybe they could take Hillary, Teddy, The Rapist, and Effin with them so we would have a better world here.
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