[JohnHuang2]

Wednesday, March 3, 2004

Quote of the Day by visualops

[petertare]

whoopdeedo

[nightdriver]

"Opportunity has landed in an area of Mars where liquid water once drenched the surface," said Edward Weiler, associate NASA administrator for space science, at a news conference. "This area would have been a good, habitable environment."

I call Bee Ess!

The planet is in equilibrium after being in existence for umpty-ump millions of years, and it's atmospheric pressure is below the saturation pressure of water whenever the surface temperature ever gets over freezing. That means water would just boil off.

The present atmospheric water content is only 250 parts per million. That says that there is just plain no water there, at least not on the surface.

[Simmy2.5]

I'm stunned silent. </sarcasm>

Well, at least it got Hoagland on Coast to Coast today.

[stylin19a]

Water was on Mars and it longer is = Global Warming...and not an SUV in sight.

I'm waiting for the eco-wackos to start saying "See ...See..."

[Brilliant]

Don't see why we needed to send a spaceship there to find that out. It should be obvious that if a comet hits Mars, there's going to be water. Of course, the real issue is how long was it there? Could have been just a matter of days.

[upcountryhorseman]

Years ago, there was talk about "canals of Mars". Telescopic observations of Mars at that time seemed to
indicate well defined "lines" on the planet.

[cartoonistx]

[VRWC_minion]

The Bible says that Gen 7:11 "on that day all the fountains of teh great deep burst forth, and the windows of the heavens were opened."

Maybe the flood was a bit more than local. Could this area of the world been flooded by an external source ?