1 posted on
03/28/2009 4:20:07 PM PDT by
neverdem
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To: neverdem
Looks like a cow to me.
ML/NJ
3 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.
4 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: neverdem
Wouldn’t it be wild if Mars were found to contain vast reserves of oil and natural gas?
6 posted on
03/28/2009 4:29:16 PM PDT by
B-Chan
(Catholic. Monarchist. Texan. Any questions?)
To: neverdem
10 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: 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.
12 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.
13 posted on
03/28/2009 4:47:38 PM PDT by
fwdude
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To: neverdem; Ransomed
"However, the finding does not rule out life on Mars today."
Of course not, silly people!
A Barsoomian Calot
14 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.
15 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...
16 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.
17 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: neverdem
On Earth the gas is made mostly by animals as a by-product I guess he never heard of swamps.
20 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.)
To: neverdem
Aren’t serpentine and olivine both basically forms of jade?
24 posted on
03/28/2009 7:18:30 PM PDT by
djf
(If Congress was a business, they'd all be in jail by now...)
To: neverdem
On Earth the gas is made mostly by animals as a by-product — although it can also be produced naturally in the absence of life2.
Most of the methane percolating up from deep within the earth both on land and at sea is from abiogenic sources.
25 posted on
03/28/2009 7:20:40 PM PDT by
aruanan
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Thanks neverdem. Panspermia subtopic.
26 posted on
03/29/2009 3:46:09 PM PDT by
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28 posted on
03/29/2009 4:15:55 PM PDT by
KevinDavis
(No one should question our "Dear Leader"!)
To: neverdem
29 posted on
03/29/2009 4:30:07 PM PDT by
Vaquero
( "an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
30 posted on
03/29/2009 6:03:28 PM PDT by
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To: neverdem
Hogland at Enterprisemission.com has some interesting articles on the mars-methane-life link.
31 posted on
03/30/2009 8:23:40 AM PDT by
BlueStateBlues
(Blue State for business, Red State at heart.........2012--can't come soon enough.)
To: neverdem
32 posted on
03/30/2009 5:51:19 PM PDT by
LiberConservative
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