[RightWhale]

Deimos is okay. Phobos is better. The point is that we don't have to land on Mars, but can build our Mars base on one of the moons. Much easier, much safer.

[talleyman]

All your moons are belong to us.

[RightWhale]

ping

[far sider]

"Nobody has been able to explain the origin of Phobos and Deimos," said S. Fred Singer of the University of Virginia’s Science & Environmental Policy Project in Arlington, Virginia.

Unfortunately, nobody has been able to explain the origin of any moon in our solar system. Why should Phobos and Deimos be any different?

[Genesis defender]

"The scientist believes the moon would serve as a natural space station for future human explorers."

But what do you do when the Space Marines discover a demon-infested gateway to Hell? </Doom>

[zook]

We should have been informed of this years ago. What was the president trying to hide?

[ClearCase_guy]

Singer said Phobos will die in a few million years. "We’re lucky in the sense that we’re seeing Phobos while it’s still around," he said.

I'll say we're lucky! Another few million years and we'd have missed the whole thing!!

[Junior]

Phoebos and Deimos are two asteroid generation ships which took up orbit around Mars sometime prior to 1877. The crews have since been exploring the Solar System and account for all those UFO sightings.

Hey, I can come up with just as plausible a conspiracy theory as anyone else!

[#3Fan]

What if Mars were a moon of a large planet whose remnants now make up the asteroid belt? The shape of Mars suggest that it was in synchronous orbit of a large object or a large object was in synchronous orbit with it. If Mars was a moon of a large planet and that large planet disentegrated for some reason, the odds of pieces of that planet being stationary relative to Mars may be low enough that there is only two pieces (Phobos and Deimos) left today in circular orbit (interesting that Deimos is in nearly syncronous orbit). The disentagration process may be what pushed Mars to it's orbit now or perhaps the disentgration took place at the right moment in Mars' orbit around the large planet to take Mars to it's current orbit. Mars shows signs of being plastered on one side by debris miles thick, like a person's head in a pie fight. Whatever happened, it happened in one day, not over the course of thousands of years. It seems to me by measuring the nodes on Mars (nodes created by the synchronous orbit), we could estimate the size of the object that was either orbiting Mars or the object Mars was orbiting, whichever the case may be.

[SunkenCiv]

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

Long-Destroyed Fifth Planet May Have Caused Lunar Cataclysm, Researchers Say
SPACE dot COM | 18 March 2002 ,posted: 03:00 pm ET
By Leonard David, Senior Space Writer
Posted on 03/25/2002 2:42:10 PM PST by vannrox
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/653287/posts

[OrioleFan]

Some alien tried to land a rock on Mars and used feet instead of meters in their calculations. It hit hard, broke in two and bounced up into orbit.

[SunkenCiv]

[SunkenCiv]

Neptune Might Have Captured Triton
Space.com on Yahoo | 5/10/06 | Sara Goudarzi
Posted on 05/10/2006 3:31:09 PM EDT by NormsRevenge
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1630007/posts

[SunkenCiv]

topic from 2003.

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