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Methane-producing mineral discovered on Mars
Nature News ^
| 27 March 2009
| Eric Hand
Posted on 03/28/2009 4:20:07 PM PDT by neverdem
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posted on
03/28/2009 4:20:07 PM PDT
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neverdem
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To: neverdem
Looks like a cow to me.
ML/NJ
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posted on
03/28/2009 4:24:28 PM PDT
by
ml/nj
To: neverdem
This isn’t news, we’ve had a strange methane producing material at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue since 20 January 2009.
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posted on
03/28/2009 4:24:34 PM PDT
by
mkjessup
(You're either with our Constitution, or you are with TKU ("The Kenyan Usurper"). CHOOSE!!!)
To: mkjessup
Mars is responsible for global warming!
To: neverdem
Wouldn’t it be wild if Mars were found to contain vast reserves of oil and natural gas?
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posted on
03/28/2009 4:29:16 PM PDT
by
B-Chan
(Catholic. Monarchist. Texan. Any questions?)
To: Winstons Julia
We need a comprehensive bill bill banning Mars
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posted on
03/28/2009 4:30:08 PM PDT
by
WorkerbeeCitizen
(The only time I want a Republican reaching across the aisle is to smack a liberal.)
To: orfannkyl86
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posted on
03/28/2009 4:31:24 PM PDT
by
Steve Van Doorn
(*in my best Eric cartman voice* 'I love you guys')
To: WorkerbeeCitizen
I hope they are gonna turn the lights out there for this big environmental thingy!
To: neverdem
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posted on
03/28/2009 4:40:08 PM PDT
by
padre35
(You shall not ignore the laws of God, the Market, the Jungle, and Reciprocity Rm10.10)
To: Winstons Julia
Mars is responsible for global warming!
THAT is why:
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posted on
03/28/2009 4:44:26 PM PDT
by
mkjessup
(You're either with our Constitution, or you are with TKU ("The Kenyan Usurper"). CHOOSE!!!)
To: neverdem
Methane is one of the building blocks of the Universe. The primorial atmosphere of earth consisted of larely carbon dioxide, ammonia, water vapor and methane, with quite a bit of the “noble gases” (argon, krypton, neon, radon, xenon, even helium) present. Over time, the carbon dioxide and water were broken down to free oxygen, by biological activity, freeing this highly reactive gas to react with the methane and ammonia, resulting in free nitrogen, a generally unreactive gas, and scads of extra water. The carbon dioxide that resulted from the combustion of methane in the oxygen atmosphere was greedily taken up by the explosive growth of photosynthesizing vegetation, further increasing the ratios of oxygen in the atmosphere.
And that, dear children, is why the atmosphere has the following composition:
Name-Symbol-Percent by Volume
Nitrogen-N2-78.084 %
Oxygen-O2-20.9476 %
Argon-Ar-0.934 %
Carbon
Dioxide-CO2-0.0384 %
Neon-Ne-0.001818 %
Methane-CH4-0.0002 %
Helium-He-0.000524 %
Krypton-Kr-0.000114 %
Hydrogen-H2-0.00005 %
Xenon-Xe-0.0000087 %
Oh, yeah. And water vapor. Highly variable, from less than 1% to as much as 4% of the atmosphere.
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posted on
03/28/2009 4:44:50 PM PDT
by
alloysteel
(Obama was lying, your rights are dying)
To: neverdem
A farting planet. How nice.
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posted on
03/28/2009 4:47:38 PM PDT
by
fwdude
("...a 'centrist' ... has few principles - and those are negotiable." - Don Feder)
To: neverdem; Ransomed
"However, the finding does not rule out life on Mars today."
Of course not, silly people!
A Barsoomian Calot
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posted on
03/28/2009 4:49:31 PM PDT
by
Kolokotronis
(Christ is Risen, and you, o death, are annihilated!)
To: neverdem
Let’s send all the meth-heads to Mars.
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posted on
03/28/2009 5:00:35 PM PDT
by
Fido969
("The hardest thing in the world to understand is income tax." - Albert Einstein)
To: neverdem
Oh no! Serpentine, in its fibrous form, is the most common type of ASBESTOS (white clump at top of pic). Future builders of Mars colonies will be forced to clean it up or face massive lawsuits...
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posted on
03/28/2009 5:00:40 PM PDT
by
rfp1234
(Phodopus campbelli: household ruler since July 2007.)
To: neverdem
renewable oil ... who knew.
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posted on
03/28/2009 5:02:28 PM PDT
by
Tarpon
(It's a common fact, one can't be liberal and rational at the same time.)
To: rfp1234
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posted on
03/28/2009 5:12:55 PM PDT
by
OneWingedShark
(Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
To: B-Chan
That's EXACTLY what I was thinking. Didn't I read that it "might" be possible to create oil from methane using high temp and pressure? If so wouldn't that imply that oil might be forming deep withing the earth?
Just wondering.
prisoner6
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posted on
03/28/2009 5:22:05 PM PDT
by
prisoner6
(Right Wing Nuts hold the country together as the loose screws of the Left fall out.)
To: neverdem
On Earth the gas is made mostly by animals as a by-product I guess he never heard of swamps.
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posted on
03/28/2009 5:23:49 PM PDT
by
George Smiley
(They're not drinking the Kool-Aid any more. They're eating it straight out of the packet.)
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