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Hey all! I was listening to Ramon Raquello and his orchestra (and who doesn't?) and just as they were playing "La Cumparsita", the program was interupted by a breaking news story from the Intercontinental Radio News with a bulletin on Mars. "At twenty minutes before eight, central time, Professor Farrell of the Mount Jennings Observatory, Chicago, Illinois, reports observing several explosions of incandescent gas, occurring at regular intervals on the planet Mars. The spectroscope indicates the gas to be hydrogen and moving towards the earth with enormous velocity. Professor Pierson of the Observatory at Princeton confirms Farrell's observation, and describes...

Hey everyone, I was trying to listen to Ramon Raquello and his orchestra and there was some news bulletin from the Intercontinental Radio News about a professor named Farrell of the Mount Jennings Observatory in Chicago (how can there be a "Mount" anything in Chicago?). He reported several explosions of incandescent gas, occurring at regular intervals on the planet Mars. The spectroscope indicates the gas to be hydrogen and moving towards the earth with enormous velocity.

Watch it here > http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docid=-7709281390847700281 Santa Claus Conquers the Martians (1964) is considered to be one of the worst movies ever made. It is so bad, that it is actually fun to watch. The filmmakers were probably too embarrassed to renew the copyright, so it’s now in the public domain. The story shows how Santa Claus is kidnapped by Martians to cheer up the Martian children. The rumor is that the movie was shot in abandoned aircraft hangars in New Jersey. It is clear that the movie had an extremely low budget, it even has spelling errors in the opening...

Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter ... and"The Lost Cities of Barsoom" .... by Richard C. Hoaglandupdated 4/7/06The Enterprise MissionAnother close-up from the same MRO mosaic (rotated 50 degrees, clockwise -- below) demonstrates that not all "quasi-circular features" on Mars are simple "impact craters." This remarkably preserved example exhibits organized, interior geometric detail characteristic of a massive, designed building ... surrounded by six, geometrically aligned, surviving elevated "walls" -- minus a possible roof! The massive former structure is attended by an array of additional, still partially-buried rectilinear features just outside. NOT A PING LIST, merely posted to:

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A screenwriter for the blockbuster film "War of the Worlds" says the malevolent Martian attackers represent the American military randomly slaughtering Iraqi civilians. Dave Koepp voiced his controversial explanation of the movie script to an obscure Canadian horror magazine titled Rue Morgue, "apparently thinking no one would notice," writes U.S. News columnist John Leo. Meanwhile, the screenwriter gave the same jarring analysis to USA Weekend, noting that "the Martians in our movie represent American military forces invading the Iraqis, and the futility of the occupation of a faraway land is again the subtext." Leo, for his part, said he thinks...

The image comes from Mars Odyssey spacecraft, and the image shows the very famous region of Mars called Cydonia. This image was taken on May 5th of 2004, but just released to public viewing on April of 2005. Just click the Thumbnail image to enlarge Cydonia, and you will see the 1976-77 Viking 1 & 2 so-call Face. This image is better than Viking 1 and 2 in some ways.

The evidence comes from photographs — not yet published — taken last year by the European Space Agency's Mars Express probe currently orbiting the red planet. The scientists said the existence of water or ice would significantly increase the chance that microscopic life may also be found on Mars. Scientists have long theorized there was once water on Mars, and data from NASA (news - web sites)'s Mars Rovers has recently appeared to confirm it. But most scientists believed the water had evaporated into the atmosphere early in the planet's history. "The point is that the ice is very recent:...

NASA NEWS [KJL] A "space source" tells me "nasa is gonna make a *big* announcement tomorrow about having found something significant on mars. probably water; if they found, say, amino acids it would be a huge deal because it would be a strong indicator of life." Posted at 04:44 PM

<p>Author Ray Bradbury, who wrote the science fiction classic "The Martian Chronicles," says President Bush's announcement that he wants the United States to put an astronaut on Mars could have tremendous consequences centuries from now.</p> <p>Space exploration could open new worlds, just as European exploration 500 years ago led to the creation of the United States, Bradbury said.</p>

03 Feb 2004 15:50 Europe joins the race to put a man on Mars By Jeremy Lovell LONDON (Reuters) - A European could step out onto the surface of Mars within three decades, under European Space Agency (ESA) plans spelled out on Tuesday. The plans are more precise than the broad U.S. goals of sending a man back to the moon by 2020 and to Mars by 2030, revealed last month by President George W. Bush. "We think it is technically feasible to have a manned mission to the moon between 2020 and 2025 and then to Mars between 2030...

NASA unveiled Monday, Feb. 2, 2004, this photograph of the Mars rover Opportunity's robotic arm as it stretched over the surface of Mars. NASA's Opportunity and its twin Spirit reached out their complex robotic arms to touch the surface of Mars on Monday, marking the first day of the joint $820 million mission when both unmanned spacecraft were in full swing. (AP Photo/NASA, JPL) print reply subscribe European Scientists Plan Mars Mission By JANE WARDELLAssociated Press Writer LONDON -- European scientists set out a route map Tuesday for manned missions to Mars that aims to land astronauts on the...

Spirit Restored; Opportunity Set to Roll Onto Mars Fri January 30, 2004 07:55 PM ET By Gina Keating PASADENA, Calif. (Reuters) - The Mars rover Spirit appeared on Friday to have returned to normal operations about 10 days after it was crippled by a problem with its computer memory, the mission's chief flight software engineer said. Glenn Reeves said Spirit's apparent return to good health came after engineers deleted about 1,700 non-essential files from the rover's computers and rebooted it in "normal mode." The engineers had ordered the rover to remain in "crippled mode" to prevent it from further harming...

[ The Atlanta Journal-Constitution: 1/29/04 ] NASA director defends Mars plan By LARRY LIPMAN The Atlanta Journal-Constitution WASHINGTON -- Defending President Bush's goal of sending a manned mission to Mars in the face of skyrocketing budget deficits, the nation's space agency director told a skeptical Senate panel Wednesday that there are some things only humans can do. Testifying before the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe said Bush's space exploration plans were both fiscally prudent and realistic and would comply with the administration's goal of cutting the budget deficit in half by the end of the...

Mars 2053Date Monday, January 26 @ 23:35:33 Topic Mars Life After 18 martian days of a near-perfect mission, a Spirit rover message came to Earth with corrupted data. When decoded, this tiny clue showed that the mobile laboratory's software considered that it was the year 2053. Based on a hunch from the software architect, the problem may be a byproduct of the mission's early success. The rover captured so much data and may have stored too many files to manage. Mars 2053 Our Truths are Temporaryby Astrobiology Magazine staffwriter Imagine getting a message from Mars, saying the spacecraft is...

Mars Madness: Fantasy To Science [AP ] By Connie Cass Washington: Mars has inspired the human imagination for more than a century, generating a parade of little green men and bug-eyed monsters first sparked by the belief that the planet was crisscrossed with alien-made canals. Today, fantasy has given way to science, with the Spirit rover sending back eerily clear pictures of empty vistas and a president promising that humans will be sent to the Red Planet. ``We do not know where this journey will end. Yet we know this:Human beings are headed into the cosmos,'' President George W. Bush...

Nasa confirms water on Mars [ THURSDAY, JANUARY 29, 2004 04:45:50 AM ] PASADENA, California: The "most striking image yet" from Nasa's Mars rovers reveals fine layers within bedrock, suggesting that the rock was formed by sediment swept down by ancient waters , the lead scientist for the mission said on Tuesday. "Wonderful layer-cake structure here," said Ste-ven W. Squyres, a professor of astronomy at Cornell, the mission's principal science investigator. Andrew H. Knoll of Harvard, a member of the mission team, said the layers could also have formed out of ash from successive volcanic eruptions. Scientists cannot tell from...

Russia Space Boss Slams U.S. Mars Plans Thu January 29, 2004 11:18 AM ET By Sonia Oxley MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's top space official on Thursday slammed as unrealistic U.S. plans for manned missions to Mars and said the emphasis for space exploration should be completion of the International Space Station (ISS). Yuri Koptev, head of Russian space agency Rosaviakosmos, distanced himself from President Vladimir Putin's comments this week that Russia could work with the United States on President Bush's ambitious plans. He was particularly critical of Bush's plan for designing a spacecraft capable of carrying astronauts to the space...

Deseret Morning News, Tuesday, January 27, 2004 Going to Mars Space exploration gets students excited about study of scienceBy Jillian Doria and Tasha SotomayorDeseret Morning News OREM — If you plan to live on Mars, you might want to get used to eating quinoa or living with endoliths before you head out. The Sojourner Rover was part of the Mars Pathfinder mission that landed at Ares Vallis on Mars in 1997. It tested nearby rocks to determine their mineral content.Image by Shaun Watson That's what the Brigham Young University Mars Research Group found out. The team, made up of...