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Mars 'Grand Canyon' Snapped By Beagle Mother Ship (Picture)
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| 1-19-2002
Posted on 01/19/2004 3:04:09 PM PST by blam
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To: greenwolf
Hmmmm....well that picture reminds me of one of these Moai stone statues from Easter Island, lying on it's side.
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posted on
01/19/2004 4:39:38 PM PST
by
all4one
(Major Brian Reed said he responded to Saddam: "President Bush sends his regards.")
To: rintense
Is it me or does that photo look exceedingly fake? It looks like an artist's rendering.
The poster left off the caption, which casts a whole new light on this picture:
The picture shows a portion of a 1,700-km-long and 65-km-wide swathe of Valles Marineris. It is in two parts. The top looks down; the lower part of the picture shows the same region in perspective view, as if seen from a low-flying aircraft. This perspective view was generated on computer.
The horizontal dark swath isn't the canyon, it's the split between the two views.
To: leadhead
The little holes are caused by gas bubbles in the molten rock when it was first blasted out of a volcano (or flowed out as in lava). What kind of gas? Most likely H2O. What we really want to see are a lot of rounded rocks like you would find in a stream.
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posted on
01/19/2004 8:40:15 PM PST
by
chmst
To: doug from upland
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posted on
01/19/2004 8:59:08 PM PST
by
Consort
To: blam
The pictures show Valles Marineris - more than six times deeper than the famous
Grand Canyon on Earth and as long as the whole of Europe.
Time to start the mutant mule breeding program...we're gonna' need some thin-air-breathin'
mules to take tourists up/down that canyon in a few generations!
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posted on
01/19/2004 9:03:23 PM PST
by
VOA
To: VOA
"Time to start the mutant mule breeding program...we're gonna' need some thin-air-breathin' mules to take tourists up/down that canyon in a few generations!" LOL. My friend of 40 years still kids me about my plan in the early 70's to do that with rabbits, to be used for food on Mars.
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posted on
01/19/2004 9:14:36 PM PST
by
blam
To: blam
...my plan in the early 70's to do that with rabbits, to be used for food on Mars.
Hey, I wouldn't laugh at you. Seeing how making more rabbits is their forte,
I suspect that if you started with a buck and couple of does...by now you'd
have a couple millions of the buggers.
And I'm sure you'd find a couple of mutant bunnies who'd do just fine
on reduced atmospheric pressure!
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posted on
01/19/2004 9:18:50 PM PST
by
VOA
To: VOA
Every 28 days...a whole new crew, huh?
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posted on
01/19/2004 9:20:51 PM PST
by
blam
To: rintense
Is it me or does that photo look exceedingly fake? It looks like an artist's rendering. I was thinking it looked like a Roger Dean painting. If they start telling us about floating jungles, my suspicions will be confirmed.
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posted on
01/19/2004 9:42:59 PM PST
by
Mr. Mulliner
(Do the words "Merry Christmas" mean anything to you?)
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