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Curiosity Rover Confirms Martian Air Is Mostly CO2
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| July 18, 2013 11:28 AM
Posted on 07/18/2013 1:23:55 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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posted on
07/18/2013 1:23:55 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
Several years ago, telescopes on Earth detected a surprising and mysterious belch of methane in three regions in the Martian western hemisphere. ... NASA in the fall is set to launch a Mars-orbiting spacecraft aimed at solving the methane mystery.
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posted on
07/18/2013 1:25:47 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
To: BenLurkin
then how come it’s SO FRIGGIN’ COLD THERE?????
To: BenLurkin
Then why isn’t the temperature 1000K?
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posted on
07/18/2013 1:28:03 PM PDT
by
reg45
(Barack 0bama: Implementing class warfare by having no class.)
To: BenLurkin
Those damned, dirty apes and their Martian SUVs.
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posted on
07/18/2013 1:30:08 PM PDT
by
Ingtar
(The NSA - "We're the only part of government who actually listens to the people.")
To: BenLurkin
Let’s start an Ascencion project and plant all kinds of things...
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posted on
07/18/2013 1:39:30 PM PDT
by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
To: BenLurkin
Martian Air Is Mostly CO2
Just damn ... cancel my vacation plans.
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posted on
07/18/2013 1:46:55 PM PDT
by
oh8eleven
(RVN '67-'68)
To: Buckeye McFrog
The atmosphere of mars is only 1% as dense as Earth's. There is no doubt that CO2 is a greenhouse gas, but there are other factors which the alarmists either don't realize or don't want to. It's a very mild greenhouse gas compared to other things like methane or water vapor. The Earth also has a carbon cycle which scrubs CO2 from the atmosphere naturally. And of course, plants breathe it. The more CO2 there is, the better plants will grow.
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posted on
07/18/2013 1:50:37 PM PDT
by
Telepathic Intruder
(The only thing the Left has learned from the failures of socialism is not to call it that)
To: BenLurkin
I wouldn’t be surprised if science eventually learns that Liberal Martian scientists adjusted for global warming and ended up killing the planet.
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posted on
07/18/2013 2:12:45 PM PDT
by
TomGuy
(.)
To: BenLurkin
...telescopes on Earth detected a surprising and mysterious belch of methane in three regions in the Martian western hemisphere... That was during my brother”s vacation time...
Hmmmm...
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posted on
07/18/2013 2:59:37 PM PDT
by
RedMonqey
("Gun-free zones" equal "Target-rich environment.")
To: TomGuy
According to Werner von Braun they killed the surface and moved underground. Apparently they have to vent the methane build-up through special exit shafts originally built to filter the air they sucked into their caverns. Now, they get their oxygen from plant life grown underground.
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posted on
07/18/2013 3:06:20 PM PDT
by
MHGinTN
(Being deceived can be cured.)
To: Vendome
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posted on
07/18/2013 4:18:32 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
To: BenLurkin
It won’t be in my lifetime, but I hope scientists eventually figure out what science fiction writers have called terraforming, defined as the creation of an earth-like environment on other planets.
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posted on
07/18/2013 4:21:46 PM PDT
by
Zhang Fei
(Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
To: MHGinTN
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posted on
07/18/2013 4:27:43 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
To: Buckeye McFrog
"then how come its SO FRIGGIN COLD THERE?????"
Low atmospheric pressure, thin atmosphere, quick thermal losses. If you go to a high elevation/altitude on earth here (like my place at around 9,200 feet), you can feel a little bit of the effect in winter. Even in the summer, intense sun effect can be felt, even at mildly low temperatures. When a cloud rolls over, the temperature drop is surprising to visitors. With peaks only a few miles to the west and most often a west wind, temperature changes of even higher elevations are felt (~ 11,000 to 14,000 feet, winds swooping down to 9,200).
The lowest low that I've spotted here was -39 F last winter (hope to upgrade PV solar plant enough to get the weather station mounted and connected to the Net, as other stations are too far downwind and warm to get needed location data). Wind gusts hit over 110 mph in winter, BTW (quick thermal losses at altitude, varying elevations and temperature clashes).
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posted on
07/18/2013 5:03:31 PM PDT
by
familyop
(We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of rotten politics smelled around the planet.)
To: 75thOVI; agrace; aimhigh; Alice in Wonderland; AndrewC; aragorn; aristotleman; Avoiding_Sulla; ...
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posted on
07/18/2013 6:22:49 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(McCain or Romney would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.)
To: BenLurkin
"telescopes on Earth detected a surprising and mysterious belch of methane in three regions in the Martian western hemisphere."
Abiotic methane or did dinosaurs colonize Mars?
To: BenLurkin
Yep, I read it as a Washington Post Sunday insert, decades ago.
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posted on
07/18/2013 7:53:22 PM PDT
by
MHGinTN
(Being deceived can be cured.)
To: MHGinTN
Good thing I didn’t post it in “Breaking News”
8^)
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posted on
07/18/2013 7:55:34 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
To: BenLurkin
Way back then I thought it was pretty good. I need to read it again now that I’m ‘over the hill’ and see if it seems as good.
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posted on
07/18/2013 8:01:13 PM PDT
by
MHGinTN
(Being deceived can be cured.)
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