Posted on 06/04/2011 6:05:41 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
We have all heard of little green men from Mars.
But now an American 'armchair astronaut' claims to have discovered a mysterious structure on the surface of the red planet - by looking on Google earth.
David Martines, whose YouTube video of the 'station' has racked up over 200,000 hits so far, claims to have randomly uncovered the picture while scanning the surface of the planet one day.
Describing the 'structure' as a living quarters with red and blue stripes on it, to the untrained eye it looks nothing more than a white splodge on an otherwise unblemished red landscape.
He even lists the co-ordinates 49'19.73"N 29 33'06.53"W so others can go see the anomaly for themselves.
In a pre recorded 'fly by' video of the object, Mr Martines describes what he thinks the station might be.
He said: 'This is a video of something I discovered on Google Mars quite by accident.
'I call it Bio-station Alpha, because I'm just assuming that something lives in it or has lived in it.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
I’m guessing Clarke wouldn’t be too thrilled with my ideas about finding life on other planets.
I don’t want to find intelligent life. That would just get in our way or exterminate us. I want to find stupid life we can eat.
Perhaps some remember the so-called “tubes on Mars”?
http://www.astronomy.net/forums/ufo/messages/764.shtml
TVF’s one major failing IMHO was his attachment to the stupid “Face on Mars” BS. But the late Tom Van Flandern was always interesting, not least because he had no apparent fear:
http://www.metaresearch.org/home/Viewpoint/archive/010313GlassyTubes/Meta-in-News010313.asp
Hoaxland’s site, lots more lunacy there:
Phobos, the Martian moon, actually an ancient spaceship?
http://www.enterprisemission.com/Phobos2.html
Artificial alien domes on the Earth’s Moon?
http://www.enterprisemission.com/SmokingGun.htm
Mars could be given an atmosphere by dumping water on it, lots of water, enough to make seas. The gases for the atmosphere would be intro’d as soon as the water got there, or could be included in the chunks of ice delivered to make the seas. Between the gases and water vapor, Mars would have a nice, dense, temporary (centuries?) atmosphere that might support some plant life intro’d from Earth. Basically though, the only way we can live on Mars is to build indoor habitats, much of which would consist of inflatable greenhouses in which to raise sufficient/surplus food.
:’)
LOL!
but still, why’d Chekov try to go back outside to beam up?
Well it ain’t the Valley Forge. Bruce Dern nuked himself while orbiting Saturn.
No pics from inside please. I do not want to see an obese Martian in a thong and a tank top.
Particularly since he wasn’t even in the Enterprise crew when the rest met up Khan the first time.
And Khan still recognized him right away.
LOL. Good catch.
I think this is the same one I checked out on youtube via ATS . . . I don’t have a brilliant explanation for it.
Have you looked at it at all?
Have you looked at it fair-mindedly?
Better you than me.
LOL.
Nooooooooooooo! I’m not going to Mars if SHE’S there, LOL!
;’)
I’ve waxed poetic on FR (basically, run off at the mouth) about Martian missions and how they should go, so I won’t do that again. :’) Well, okay, since you insist...
The ISS will be deorbited (that is, pushed into a terminal trajectory into the Earth’s Pacific Ocean) once its useful life is done (that won’t be many more years, either). My view is, the Russian crap that’s part of the station should be removed for deorbit, and the remaining pieces relinked (slightly different order, plus some few additions as needed). Outboard stuff like the photovoltaics (with some additional ones) could be tethered to a leading mast (which would be one of the new parts) and at the opposite end would be a new booster.
Loaded with groceries and various other things, the ISS would be pushed up and away, on a slow trajectory to Mars, arriving at just the right time and path that little or no deceleration burn is needed to enter orbit. It would of course be renamed the MSS.
Remotely checked, it would become a destination for human missions to Mars. The process of getting to and from Mars is most of the mission’s time and risk, and Mars has no infrastructure.
The surface could be explored with rovers dropped in for the purpose, via direct and indirect links. Line of sight would be maintained between the station and two communication satellites to give nearly 100 percent coverage of the Martian surface. The rovers would be operated in real time by astronauts aboard the MSS.
One reason the lunar missions were a success was the development and practice of skills needed to do the jobs, step by step, beginning with Mercury and continuing with Gemini. Von Braun wanted to go to Mars, and stated in print that a single mission would require twelve Saturn V launches. Given how much has been spent on the STS flights over the last thirty years, twelve Saturn V launches looks pretty good right now.
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