Water Still Flows in Brief Spurts on Mars

NASA ^ | Dec 6, 2006 | NASA

[Rastus]

What if when Jesus said he had "other flocks to tend," he meant peoples on other planets? I always thought it would be cool to have some sci-fi film or novel where the explorers land on a distant planet and find people who are believing Christians.

[Kenny Bunk]

Whatever happened to those Martian Canals? They used to get thicker and greener with the changing of the Martian Seasons. The astronomers even mapped them.

Heinlein characters used to strap on speed skates and use them to go visiting. Now, they haven't even been heard from. Drought?

[Boiler Plate]

The question really is, if we do find some form of life on Mars how long will it take the Earth First folks to change their name to

Earth First, Mars Second, Humans Dead Last Inc.

[RightWhale]

If I had one of Blake's printed books I would not write in it. But, any other book is to be highlighted, underlined, and annotated. I don't dog-ear the pages, but cut thumb indexes directly to vital passages--there aren't all that many in most books.

[NicknamedBob]

"If I had one of Blake's printed books I would not write in it."

"(William) Blake, however, created his plates by first painting his texts and the lineaments of his illustrations and decorations upon copper sheets with a very fine brush dipped in a clear acid-resist liquid. (He said that the technique had come to him in a dream.) After painting the text and decoration, he immersed the plates in acid, which ate away their unpainted (that is, unprotected) areas."

The astute reader will note that this technique of acid-etching a copper plate is similar to methods some of us used a few years ago to manufacture our own "printed" circuits.

It is also similar to the manufacturing technique for microprocessors.

[American in Israel]

Better yet, give it to Muslims on the condition they leave earth. They like desolation.

[xJones]

Anyone interested in some lakefront property on a Martian canal?

Not really, those canals have really nasty little creatures worse than Florida mosquitoes or even {{{Houston cockroaches}}}!

[xJones]

Earth First, Mars Second, Humans Dead Last Inc.

Or "Earth First, we'll screw the rest of the solar system later!":)

[RightWhale]

Some of us have designs on space resources. We're not about to send this or that despised foe out there. It would be like giving them title to the biggest goldmine and oil patch in the solar system.

[RightOnTheLeftCoast]

"Show me where the Bible says God didn't put life anywhere but earth. It doesn't say he did, but it doesn't say he didn't, either."

Correct. Some, however, interpret the "sheep in other folds" as referring to life elsewhere.

The universe is an awfully big place that's been going on for an awfully long time. It is sheerest human vanity to think that we're alone.

[RightOnTheLeftCoast]

Specifically:

John 10:16 (KJV):

And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd.

[RockinRight]

I agree with that.

And this passage could very well suggest that God intends for His creation to exist on more than one world, but to meet in Heaven.

[RightOnTheLeftCoast]

"Yeah, well, Genesis somehow missed that whole "Age of the Dinosaurs" thing, which was kind of a big deal for a hundred million years or so."

Not really. Genesis is about people, after all, not lizards and slime-molds and trilobites and all the rest that had come before.

Genesis did do a pretty good job of foreshadowing the Big Bang theory, considering it was written and handed down by generations of shepherds and such. Ditto Revelation and its depiction of what, to my eye, seems to be nuclear war over islamofascism:

And I saw what looked like a sea of glass mixed with fire and, standing beside the sea, those who had been victorious over the beast and his image and over the number of his name. (Rev. 15:2)

And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of their testimony for Jesus and because of the word of God. (Rev. 20:4)

[ReignOfError]

Only by being drawn towards the darkness and understanding it could she have the will to choose the light. In fact, I would go further and add that only by experiencing, integrating and sublimating evil could she ever fully and truly understand the Divine.

I hadn't thought of it that way, but it's an intriguing read. It sorta kinda reminds me of the controversy when the "Gospel of Judas" surfaced a while back -- I just didn't get the controversy (well, I got it, but I didn't really feel it). I'd always assumed that Jesus knew, or at the very least suspected, that one of his apostles would betray him. And it didn't seem to me much of a stretch that he ordered Judas to do so.

Once you get past the Sunday School version for 8-year-olds, theology is pretty interesting stuff.

[American in Israel]

Unless we build the refinery's, like Saudi Arabia, they will sit on the oil and spend their day beating their wives.

I said send them to mars, not build them oil wells. Without civilization to feed upon the parasite of Islam starves.

[theDentist]

What's the fission like?

[onedoug]

Genesis 1:26...And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

Us: The angels? The animals? Or perhaps other intelligent life in the universe?

I might opt for the latter, as rare as I think it is.

Guillermo Gonzalez & Jay W Richards, The Privileged Planet: How Our Place In The Cosmos Is Designed For Discovery.

[USMMA_83]

Well, once you get past the sunday school fluff...the Bible becomes so much more spiritual. For instance, why was Jesus born? Sunday school will tell you it's becuase of the original sin.

Here's another possible answer. He was the answer to Job's question. Now, when you start exploring that possibility, WOW! what a read! It just opens up your mind.

[ReignOfError]

Well, once you get past the sunday school fluff...the Bible becomes so much more spiritual. For instance, why was Jesus born? Sunday school will tell you it's becuase of the original sin.

Yeah, and that's why so many kids doze through Sunday school.

Ask any parent of any toddler. Put a pretty, shiny thing in the room, tell the child not to touch it, and turn your back for ten seconds. No odds on what happens next.

If God didn't expect A&E to eat from the tree of knowledge, he could have just left it out of the Garden. You're not going to convince me that God the Father didn't foresee what every other parent knows.

Here's another possible answer. He was the answer to Job's question. Now, when you start exploring that possibility, WOW! what a read! It just opens up your mind.

That does open up a bunch of interesting ideas. And, I have to admit, I never knew where the expression "give up the ghost" came from until I looked it up just now.