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Water Still Flows in Brief Spurts on Mars
NASA ^ | Dec 6, 2006 | NASA

Posted on 12/06/2006 10:43:05 AM PST by Young Werther

NASA photographs have revealed bright new deposits seen in two gullies on Mars that suggest water carried sediment through them sometime during the past seven years.

"These observations give the strongest evidence to date that water still flows occasionally on the surface of Mars," said Michael Meyer, lead scientist for NASA's Mars Exploration Program, Washington

(Excerpt) Read more at nasa.gov ...


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KEYWORDS: artbell; mars; marvin; space; water
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To: Young Werther
Maybe Martian can spare some water for drought parched DFW area!

What drought? My lawn is just fine ... of course I'm right next to the lake (50 meters)

61 posted on 12/06/2006 12:04:40 PM PST by Centurion2000 (If the Romans had nukes, Carthage would still be glowing.)
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To: ChiefChris

LOL! Exactly. Next thing they'll tell us our SUVs are causing global warming on Mars.


62 posted on 12/06/2006 12:05:30 PM PST by TraditionalistMommy
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To: jmc0519

It might keep scholarship and poetry alive. It's a stretch, I know.


63 posted on 12/06/2006 12:05:32 PM PST by RightWhale (RTRA DLQS GSCW)
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To: Liberty Tree Surgeon

I have read that up to 95% of scientists are athiests.


64 posted on 12/06/2006 12:05:32 PM PST by TraditionalistMommy
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To: GovernmentIsTheProblem

Think of it this way. When little children are taught about some virus they found on Mars (in public school), do you think they will mention the possibility that God put it there? No way. They will use it as evidence life just "springs up" anywhere for the heck of it. The evolutionists would eat this up.


65 posted on 12/06/2006 12:05:41 PM PST by TraditionalistMommy
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To: TraditionalistMommy
I will tell you why. Searching for "life on other planets" is another attempt by science to undermime religion and push evolution.

Try to tell that to the Affiliation of Christian Geologists!

How many billions or trilions have been spent to convince people not to believe the Bible?

...she assked, surrounded by a variety of objects using technological spinoffs of the space programs.

66 posted on 12/06/2006 12:07:47 PM PST by Gondring (I'll give up my right to die when hell freezes over my dead body!)
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To: TraditionalistMommy
I know what you are saying, but science tries to push any discovery as anti-religion. They will find a little bacteria on Saturn and use it as proof religion is bunk. I just hate to see tax money wasted on this.

You hate to see tax money wasted on what, exploration or scientists being anti-religion. If you hate to see money wasted on exploration I must say that I am confused considering that I'm guessing you are probably writing from the New World.

67 posted on 12/06/2006 12:08:03 PM PST by burzum (Despair not! I shall inspire you by charging blindly on!--Minsc, BG2)
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To: Young Werther

Must be grant time.


68 posted on 12/06/2006 12:09:36 PM PST by Dustbunny (The BIBLE - Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth)
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To: TraditionalistMommy

Not to mention you would have a hard time explaining to me why if there is water on Mars and they find microbe life on it why hasn't anything evolved from that? While life on earth has sprouted into millions of different creatures.


69 posted on 12/06/2006 12:10:22 PM PST by Almondjoy
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To: TraditionalistMommy

That is bull. Don't take a couple of noisy PhDs to represent the population.


70 posted on 12/06/2006 12:10:52 PM PST by RightWhale (RTRA DLQS GSCW)
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To: RightWhale
Almighty ruler of the all
Whose power extends to great and small,
Who guides the stars with steadfast law,
Whose least creation fills with awe—
Oh grant Thy mercy and Thy grace
To those who venture into space.

-------------------------Robert Heinlein

71 posted on 12/06/2006 12:11:15 PM PST by 50sDad (I respect other religions by allowing them the right to worship. But they still are wrong.)
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To: Redcloak

Yes, it sure does look like that's a spring! I would love to take the time to look at this info in detail, along with horizontal and vertical scales of the features.


72 posted on 12/06/2006 12:11:17 PM PST by Gondring (I'll give up my right to die when hell freezes over my dead body!)
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To: TraditionalistMommy

"Searching for "life on other planets" is another attempt by science to undermime religion"

Like chemistry undermined alchemy; like psychology undermined possession; like vaccinations undermine God's plans for early death. It's a conspiracy I tell ya!


73 posted on 12/06/2006 12:13:33 PM PST by gcruse (http://garycruse.blogspot.com/)
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To: TraditionalistMommy

"Think of it this way. When little children are taught about some virus they found on Mars (in public school), do you think they will mention the possibility that God put it there? No way. They will use it as evidence life just "springs up" anywhere for the heck of it. The evolutionists would eat this up."


Well, chances of a "virus" being found on Mars are very low, considering that it doesn't have a hospitable enough environment to support a viral host. You probably meant "bacteria." I find it curious that you're more interested in other peoples reactions to such a discovery than in learning the difference between the two...

"God put it there" isn't a scientific explanation. I personally would like to see the public school system eradicated, but while it exists, there's no room for religion in it unless you are comfortable with Islam and Wicca being given equal ground with what you believe.

Anyway, I doublt that evolutionists would eat up bacteria found on Mars. It's probably not very compatible with our biophysiology, and we won't have any natural immunity to it. ;)


74 posted on 12/06/2006 12:18:17 PM PST by GovernmentIsTheProblem
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To: 50sDad

I had doubted Whitehead's beliefs and so had never read him because of his association with Russell and the Positivists. But, I found that he was not associated with the Positivists except for Russell, and that only for writing their little logic book. They they parted company. Now I have several of Whitehead's books and find he is one of the most stalwart proponents of evolution, and puts God as the eternal object that needs no other object and must be there for other objects to exist. Not an anthropomorphic view, but far from materialistic and certainly not Positivism.


75 posted on 12/06/2006 12:19:03 PM PST by RightWhale (RTRA DLQS GSCW)
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To: ChiefChris
Life on Mars. That's all we need. Now the Sierra Club will sue to stop all further Martian exploration in order to protect Mars's delicate environment.

Oh yeah? That's nothin'. Just wait until they discover oil on Mars. LOL!

76 posted on 12/06/2006 12:22:57 PM PST by Lurking in Kansas (Nothing witty here? move on.)
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To: TraditionalistMommy
I will tell you why. Searching for "life on other planets" is another attempt by science to undermime religion and push evolution. How many billions or trilions have been spent to convince people not to believe the Bible?

Where in the Bible does it say that the Earth is the only place in the universe that God created life? Why would finding life on Mars automatically mean that people shouldn't believe the Bible?

77 posted on 12/06/2006 12:25:12 PM PST by RonF
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To: TraditionalistMommy
I know what you are saying, but science tries to push any discovery as anti-religion.

Where do you get this from? I've got degrees in Biology and Biochemistry and I have not observed this.

78 posted on 12/06/2006 12:27:13 PM PST by RonF
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To: TraditionalistMommy

"I have read that up to 95% of scientists are athiests."

It is commonly accepted that up to 95% of news columnists and journalists make stuff up.


79 posted on 12/06/2006 12:28:29 PM PST by UCANSEE2 (It's turtles all the way down.)
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To: TraditionalistMommy
Simply put, don't you think if there was life on other planets out there, it would be mentioned in Genesis!

Nope. Genesis talks about the creation of the Earth. There's no particular reason that I can see to assume that the Lord would place stories about the creation of other planets and of life on them in Genesis.

80 posted on 12/06/2006 12:28:52 PM PST by RonF
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