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Armchair astronaut discovers Mars 'space station' using Google earth
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| June 4, 2011
Posted on 06/04/2011 6:05:41 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
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To: Free ThinkerNY
I have no idea how large this structure is but haven’t we lost 3-4 space craft on Mars? Is there any reason not to believe the Russians have as well?
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posted on
06/04/2011 6:52:25 PM PDT
by
muir_redwoods
(Somewhere in Kenya, a village is missing an idiot)
To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...
Thanks Free ThinkerNY.
David Martines, whose YouTube video of the 'station' has racked up over 200,000 hits so far... 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... [said] "I call it Bio-station Alpha, because I'm just assuming that something lives in it or has lived in it."
The late Arthur C. Clarke claimed that something resembling banyan trees were clearly visible in recent pix taken from Mars orbit. This makes perfect sense too, because the surface pressure on Mars is the same as Earth's atmospheric pressure at 40 miles altitude.
Why, yes, I am being ironic.
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posted on
06/04/2011 6:53:09 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Thanks Cincinna for this link -- http://www.friendsofitamar.org)
To: Diana in Wisconsin
Nice SUV Al’s got there, too.
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posted on
06/04/2011 6:54:43 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Thanks Cincinna for this link -- http://www.friendsofitamar.org)
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
06/04/2011 7:04:49 PM PDT
by
Publius6961
(you don't need a president-for-life if you've got a bureaucracy-for-life.)
To: SunkenCiv
Of course, Everybody knows that Banyan trees thrive in temperatures between -200 and -20.
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posted on
06/04/2011 7:06:47 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
To: Free ThinkerNY
The Coordinates shown in the article are incorrect. The correct coordinates are:
71 49’19.73”N 29 33’06.53”W
Go to Google Earth, click “View” “Explore” “Mars”. Paste in the above coordinates in the “Fly To” dialog box and press “enter”.
To: muir_redwoods; KevinDavis
There was a US (or maybe it was ESA/US) lander that didn’t land right and the next orbiter eventually found the crash site from orbit. This story reminds me of the persistent flap about a Russian craft some years ago which had just managed to make orbit around Mars, turn on its cameras, and saw the (natural) object just in time to record the probe’s own demise. A Russian source said the probe had collided with “something that wasn’t supposed to be there”, an unfortunate turn of phrase which has been saddled on ever since as proof that aliens control Mars.
The first-ever attempt at a Mars mission was by the USSR; Khruschev made a cryptic reference to it in one of his angry speeches, without going into detail, in case the mission failed — which it did. The first close-up photos of Mars (there are just a handful from the mission) date from nearly 50 years ago, a US probe which like others since failed to get to the right spot at the right time, and instead of entering orbit, did a flyby instead. While that aspect was disappointing, the photos took everyone’s breath away.
Probably won’t do that to anyone now, unfortunately, but I remain impressed:
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraftDisplay.do?id=1964-077A
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posted on
06/04/2011 7:13:37 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Thanks Cincinna for this link -- http://www.friendsofitamar.org)
To: Free ThinkerNY
Here's a view from Google Earth. Note the given coordinates dropped the degrees and just gave minutes and seconds! I found this by scanning the circled area in the small scale view. I think it's obviously an artifact. The geologic features in this view show much lower resolution.
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posted on
06/04/2011 7:15:40 PM PDT
by
dr_lew
To: SunkenCiv
Once Tipper is through with him, he’ll be LIVING in an SUV, LOL!
Go, Tipper! Go! :)
Boy, what a year it’s been for these Dem Rat ‘leaders’, Eh? Algore kicked out of his house and now John Edwards facing 30 years in prison?
Couldn’t happen to two nicer fellows, LOL!
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posted on
06/04/2011 7:16:27 PM PDT
by
Diana in Wisconsin
(I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
To: SunkenCiv
I’m still pretty impressed with the Russian Venus landings.
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posted on
06/04/2011 7:19:15 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
To: Free ThinkerNY
Looks like a crankshaft.
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posted on
06/04/2011 7:23:07 PM PDT
by
Kirkwood
(Zombie Hunter)
To: GeronL; Publius6961; cripplecreek
"I'm now convinced that Mars is inhabited by a race of demented landscape gardeners," Sir Arthur C. Clarke announced recently.
The author of 2001: A Space Odyssey was only half-joking. He claims that an image produced by the Mars Global Surveyor satellite shows "large areas of vegetation . . . like banyan trees." Most experts dismiss the idea. But Popular Science loves a free thinker, especially one as talented and charming as Sir Arthur. We questioned him in Sri Lanka via e-mail.
> Nicole Foulke
Popular Science What makes you so confident there is life on Mars?
Arthur C. Clarke The image is so striking that there is no need to say anything about it -- it's obviously vegetation to any unbiased eye.
PS What about animal life?
AC If there is vegetation, it seems probable there are other life-forms as well.
PS Few experts agree with you.
AC Remember how a certain Astronomer Royal said that space flight was 'utter bilge'?
[Indeed, Richard van der Reit Wooley said so in 1956 -- Ed.] But they are right to be cautious -- we still don't have 100 percent proof. I think it's in the high nineties!
PS Why are you so passionate about this?
AC Because nothing could be more important than the discovery of other life-forms. It's getting lonely down here.
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posted on
06/04/2011 7:23:56 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Thanks Cincinna for this link -- http://www.friendsofitamar.org)
To: Free ThinkerNY
Looks like a White Castle restaurant to me.
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posted on
06/04/2011 7:25:01 PM PDT
by
mass55th
(Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
To: Diana in Wisconsin; cripplecreek
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posted on
06/04/2011 7:25:24 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Thanks Cincinna for this link -- http://www.friendsofitamar.org)
To: Maurice Tift; Darksheare; Slings and Arrows
It's my old office. I used to work there (on the planet Mars). The rent was cheap, but I got very little walk-in traffic and the long distance phone bills were horrendous. Why didn't you simply link up through the trans-druidian sattelite system? You would have saved a bundle!
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posted on
06/04/2011 7:25:39 PM PDT
by
Grizzled Bear
("Does not play well with others.")
To: Free ThinkerNY
It’s not on the Mars surface at all. It’s a satellite in orbit above Earth.
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posted on
06/04/2011 7:26:34 PM PDT
by
kik5150
To: Free ThinkerNY
Maybe Cynthia McKinney was right?
We did plant a flag and a base on Mars. /s
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posted on
06/04/2011 7:29:39 PM PDT
by
machogirl
(First they came for my tagline)
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To: Brilliant
Here is a much better picture.
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posted on
06/04/2011 7:36:29 PM PDT
by
UCANSEE2
(Lame and ill-informed post)
To: Free ThinkerNY
Looks like the wreckage of the SS Botany Bay on Ceti Alpha V.
(KHAAAAAAAN!!!)
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posted on
06/04/2011 7:39:52 PM PDT
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