SCIENTIST SURE MARS HAD WATER (LIKE GLOBAL WARMING)

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/10326675.htm?template=contentModules/printstory.jsp ^ | Dec. 03, 2004 | Robert S. Boyd

[JesseHousman]

''No hedging needed. There was liquid water on Mars. Case closed,'' Kargel wrote in an e-mail message.

And aerosol sprays and freon have eroded the ozone layer and the Polar Ice Cap melting will turn Helsinki into a Miami Beach. Quick! Sign the Kyoto Treaty.

[CJR812]

IN UN-RELATED NEWS, AL GORE DECLARES HIMSELF PRESIDENT OF THE MARTIAN PEOPLE

[counterpunch]

Clearly all those Martian SUVs are to blame for the deterioration of the Martian environment.

[JesseHousman]

Some scientists have brains and discount a lot of crap that is regurgitated from the leftist, pinko phony scientists.

[RightWhale]

End game. A last effort [by ????] to keep us from going to Mars.

[JesseHousman]

Right-o! Everyone knows SUVs have a mind of their own and are completely in control of their own destiny.

No drivers needed!

The only complaint I have in respect to SUVs is that when they park next to me in a crowded lot I have a problem backing up. Of course I've had too many martinis and should have called a cab.

[JesseHousman]

And I so wanted to book a flight.

[Paradox]

Oh well, so much for terraforming Mars, the handwringers simply won't allow it now...

[RightWhale]

It's a gesture. They [whoever they are] can no longer stop us. We are going, and we are going to find out, feet on ground, what is there. I wouldn't expect extinct civilizations, but it isn't impossible.

[grandpiano007]

What does the Bible say about extra terestrial life/aliens?

[JesseHousman]

Nothing. But of course you knew that.

If there was any life on the heavens I honestly believed we'd have a clue in the Bible.

[JesseHousman]

Nothing there but nothingness.

[Citizen James]

I knew that face looked familiar!

[Caipirabob]

''No hedging needed. There was liquid water on Mars. Case closed,'' Kargel wrote in an e-mail message.

I'm pretty sure about it, too. It's all there right next to all those discarded Kerry votes. Man, that Karl Rove is something else...

[StJacques]

". . . The only complaint I have in respect to SUVs is that when they park next to me in a crowded lot I have a problem backing up. Of course I've had too many martinis and should have called a cab. . . ."

Well I've got another complaint. Too many SUV drivers are fitting their vehicles with headlight lamps that are too numerous (extra headlights) or too powerful and adjusted improperly. This also applies to personal trucks. I live in a small subdivision that is accessible by either of two two-lane blacktop roads and there have been several nights when I've been coming home and found myself forced to slow down to a near crawl and pull over slightly to the right because the lane in front of me is invisible. And someone else in my area -- who I don't know -- even wrote a letter to the Editor of our local paper that was published about this, which led to at least one news report on a local TV station. I'm not the only one.

I have a personal theory that many who drive SUVs and personal trucks are really not that good behind the wheel and they go for overkill in installing headlights so that they gain a margin of comfort for night driving.

[JesseHousman]

I know. One of my sons-in-law has the biggest Hummer he could buy and at night it looks like a 777 taxying down the runway.

[nightdriver]

''No hedging needed. There was liquid water on Mars. Case closed,'' Kargel wrote in an e-mail message.

Right!!

With AVERAGE temperatures of -63 degrees, lots of water can exist in the liquid state!

All we gotta do is rewrite the laws of physics concerning water.

[Bigh4u2]

"Like Global Warming"

Or a comet passing so close to Mars that it ripped it's atmosphere away and left it unprotected from the sun!

Instant evaporation?

[dead]

[WestVirginiaRebel]

Somewhat OT, but with all the attention focused on colonizing Mars, I think we're forgetting another attractive candidate-Venus. It's closer, and it already has a thick atmosphere that would seem to make it easier to terraform, relatively speaking.