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Mars thread may be from lander
News-Leader.com ^ | 2/20/04

Posted on 02/19/2004 11:34:54 PM PST by LibWhacker

Edited on 05/07/2004 7:30:52 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: lander; mars; thread

1 posted on 02/19/2004 11:34:55 PM PST by LibWhacker
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To: LibWhacker
Briefing from 19Feb on C-SPAN now. Just started.
2 posted on 02/19/2004 11:38:20 PM PST by leadpenny ((( A Vietnam Vet Who Is Not Fonda Kerry )))
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To: leadpenny
Thanks!
3 posted on 02/19/2004 11:39:11 PM PST by LibWhacker
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To: LibWhacker
Thanks again...
4 posted on 02/19/2004 11:49:22 PM PST by maxamillion
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To: Phil V.
ping
5 posted on 02/19/2004 11:52:48 PM PST by farmfriend ( Isaiah 55:10,11)
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To: LibWhacker
Uh-oh. Mars is wormy....git out the Ivormec, honey...
6 posted on 02/19/2004 11:55:30 PM PST by Judith Anne
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To: LibWhacker
"Mars thread may be from lander"

Darn - I was hoping that one of the landers had made a direct connection right here to FreeRepublic. They do have the perfect names - Spirit and Opportunity.
7 posted on 02/19/2004 11:55:50 PM PST by geopyg (Democracy, whiskey, sexy)
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To: LibWhacker
It's from Michael Jackson's missing glove. Pigment and sanity to follow: Continuing...
8 posted on 02/20/2004 12:07:01 AM PST by NewRomeTacitus (wants Centurions on the Frontier.)
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hmmm, maybe my eyes deceive, but what about the latest microscopic pics from spirit where multiple fibres seem to fan out from common point? For example in -http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/all/2/m/046/2M130463512EFF0900P2953M2M1.JPG - top/rightish near the sharp rock, 3 hairlike projections seemingly extend out left to right from central point!
9 posted on 02/20/2004 4:28:17 AM PST by blengi
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To: LibWhacker

must be where xxxillary's shirts are being made

10 posted on 02/20/2004 4:31:01 AM PST by InvisibleChurch (Remember, God made you special and He loves you very much!)
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Those shirts have a Che' like appearance. The must be targeting the same market.
11 posted on 02/20/2004 4:34:20 AM PST by Rebelbase (The gravy train makes unscheduled stops.)
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To: blengi
Amazing. That pic was taken on sol 46. Spirit was about 120 meters away from the lander then, and half-way to Bonneville Crater.

I wonder how much longer NASA is going to claim these things we'll be seeing probably come from the lander? A kilometer? When Spirit reaches its maximum range? If so, NASA needs to come up with another landing method that doesn't contaminate such large areas with debris. Geez, we're there to discover what strange things actually are native to Mars, not confound ourselves and open the door for the naysayers to rush in.

12 posted on 02/20/2004 10:00:06 AM PST by LibWhacker
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Just as I had predicted on another thread.. hmmm can't find my post, RATS.. But once again, Freepers ahead of the curve..
13 posted on 02/20/2004 11:03:56 AM PST by Paradox (Cogito ergo moon.)
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To: blengi; LibWhacker
This does lend credence to the idea that we affect everything just by observing.

Some scientists in another article were suggesting that everything found on Mars has an analog on the Hawaiian Islands and have thus far catalogued everything yet seen by the landers. Their point was that the "lake bed" is actually the remnants of a lava flow, Mars' features are volcanic in nature and all this searching for evidence that water once flowed is ridiculous. They say their colleagues lapsed in scientific method and blew billions of dollars on an assumption.
14 posted on 02/20/2004 11:05:55 AM PST by NewRomeTacitus (wants Centurions on the Frontier.)
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15 posted on 02/20/2004 11:19:00 AM PST by Brett66
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Don't know whether to call this ironic or what . . . We travelled so far to find something new, only to discover we can't see beyond the end of our own nose, lol!
16 posted on 02/20/2004 12:39:18 PM PST by LibWhacker
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