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Posted on 07/21/2005 7:09:04 PM PDT by KevinDavis
1) Just because the makeup of a meteorite is consistent with a rock that might have originated on Mars, is a looooooonnnnngggg way from proof that it actually did.
2) For the most part science can't tell with any particular certainty what the weather is going to be tomorrow. But they think they can divine the 4+ billion year climatic history of another planet by studying a rock here on Earth.
Small wonder these people have been able to convince themselves that Evolution is the way things work, against all odds and common sense.
You sort of beat be to it, but this explains why there is no life in the Clinton marriage.
Mars sounds a lot like my ex-wife!
Ba-dum-PAH! Thank you, ladies and gentlemen! I'll be here all week, and try the veal pasrmesian!
An era etched in sediment. Were there even soft scale microbes there'll not only be fossils, but petroleum for local development.
Methinks a point has to be stretched to make a good story!
Methinks a point has to be stretched to make a good story!
Indeed. There's also a famous meteor that they have convinced themselves came from Mars, and which contains tiny objects which they have convinced themselves are evidence of life in the cracks of the rock. And therefore evidence that life exist(ed) on Mars.
I read one report from a "scientist" who thinks she knows the very crater on Mars the meteor likely came from! ROTFLMAO
I think these people are actually getting PAID for this stuff, probably tax dollars.
New 'MONTH IN REVIEW' for the MAY/JUNE timeperiod available for the Martian Rovers..........
http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/wir/index.html
Red Planet's Ancient Equator Located
Scientific American (online) | April 20, 2005 | Sarah Graham
Posted on 04/24/2005 8:18:25 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1390424/posts
'Four-billion-year chill' on Mars
BBC | 7/21/05 | David Whitehouse
Posted on 07/21/2005 1:57:09 PM PDT by LibWhacker
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1447845/posts
It's just a fact. The extrapolations from the fact are guesswork. There are merely saying that the rock they analyzed looks like it was cold and dry for so many years. If the rock came from Mars, and another fact is that it appears so, then it might be representative of a part of Mars. Some up and coming robots have drills that may get down under the surface where it is possible there is ice. No final conclusions, yet, it's going to be a long time.
Cold, Bitter... sounds like some online people I've met online. ;')
Mars was 'always cold and frozen'The idea that Mars was once a warm place, awash with oceans that could harboured early life has taken a knock - new data suggests it was always cold, frozen and probably lifeless. A survey of the Red Planet's surface has revealed only traces of carbonates, minerals that should have formed in abundant quantities if Mars once had expansive seas. On Earth, the mineral is found in limestone and chalk deposits around the world. The data was collected by a thermal emission spectrometer (TES) on NASA's Mars Global Surveyor and was analysed by researchers at Arizona State University in the US... "We found carbonate, but we've only trace amounts," said team leader Philip Christensen. "This really points to a cold, frozen, icy Mars that has probably always been that way. We believe that the relatively small amounts that we see probably did not come from oceans, but from the [carbon dioxide] atmosphere interacting directly with dust," he said... "We see so much erosion in canyons, and valleys and plains that have been stripped bare," he said. "It seems unlikely that the carbonate rocks could all be hiding out of view. When you look at the entire planet, you'd think that somewhere a little piece would be exposed."
by David Cohen
New Scientist
22 August 2003
Would like to hear where earth's oceans actually came from?
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