Well... there was this picture.
Posted on 04/13/2012 7:55:36 AM PDT by chessplayer
All your base belong to us.
Oldest trick in government agency, academic and defense contractor funding book....no thanks.
Paging Arthur C. Clark. (I’d never seen that monolith picture before. Interesting.)
But they photograph those anomalies anyway and just ignore any hubbub created about them. NASA knows there is life there but they aren’t going to admit it.
I can remember, in the 1930’s, astronomers viewed ‘canals’
on Mars.
I can remember, in the 1930’s, astronomers viewed ‘canals’
on Mars.
“There is a lot of BS on the subject, but there are a lot of pictures that make you think again”
I cannot agree more. NASA does seem to studiously avoid these areas for closer examination. There might be nothing there but it is worth taking a much closer look.
It’s interesting how the photographs from probes of the solar system planets have revealed some very intriguing structures that truly makes one wonder.
Well... there was this picture.
When I hear the term ‘Scientist’ I immediately go to my global warming fltering mechanism. Taht is to say I do not bleieve anything that ‘scientist’ say until it has been verified by people that do not have a stake in the game and are reliable.
Or the wabbit died...
(Haunting picture of the wabbit taken moments before his death)
The reasoning is obvious. If there’s life there, we “dare not contaminate Mars with Earthly Life”.
i.e. No more Mars shots. . .
That is a responsible approach to exploration. Once we are sure what's there and how it will interact with Earth's many species, then we can start the Terraforming!
“Numerous other probes have ranged out on Mars. What do scientists says of their findings?”
As far as I know all of the other probes did not have equipment or experiments to detect or analyze life. I have always wondered why that was.
I think they are prepping us because they KNOW Curiosity is going to prove it.
If they can manage to land it, that is.
Pretty stupid to keep trying these new techniques when they have the perfect method by enclosing it in a bunch of balloons and have it bounce down, not touch down.
Especially when you are talking about a billion dollar plus piece of equipment.
When I hear the term ‘Scientist’ I immediately go to my global warming fltering mechanism. Taht is to say I do not bleieve anything that ‘scientist’ say until it has been verified by people that do not have a stake in the game and are reliable.
I think they are prepping us because they KNOW Curiosity is going to prove it.
If they can manage to land it, that is.
Pretty stupid to keep trying these new techniques when they have the perfect method by enclosing it in a bunch of balloons and have it bounce down, not touch down.
Especially when you are talking about a billion dollar plus piece of equipment.
As for weight:
Spirit Balloon Lander Rover - 408 lbs.
Viking Soft Lander - 1,270 lbs.
Curiosity Soft Lander - 1,984 lbs.
http://planetary.org/blog/article/00003271/
Curiosity is a T-Rex compared to the balloon landed rovers. I doubt they could make balloons for it strong enough that wouldn’t be ripped to shreds on impact.
I think they are prepping us because they KNOW Curiosity is going to prove it.
The major planets Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, have large amounts of methane and other hydrocarbon gases in their atmospheres. Titan, a large satellite of Saturn, has methane and ethane in its atmosphere, and these gases form clouds and behave much like water does in the atmosphere of the Earth. Triton, a large satellite of Neptune, appears to have hydrocarbons mixed with water ices on its surface, as does the outermost planet known at this time, Pluto.
Where did you get the idea that methane is a positive indicator of living organisms? Some methane is produced by microbes, but the major portion is abiogenic. There are literally over a million tons of methane outgassing from the mantle of the earth every year.
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