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Water, Water Everywhere (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,258989,00.html)
W5HTW
03-15-2007, 08:39 PM
Both Santa Fe and Albuquerque plan to get together for a joint pipeline venture to that reservoir on Mars. I wish them well,(ok, not a well, but a pipeline!) and maybe they will then stop trying to steal our water here in the Estancia Valley.
n2ize
03-15-2007, 08:42 PM
A certain French company already bought it up. Just like they were buying up all our water.
W3MIV
03-15-2007, 09:01 PM
We should send Al Gore up to explain global warming to the Martians. It could be his big chance.
WB2WIK
03-15-2007, 09:03 PM
They're gonna find Ray Walston beneath the ice, putting all those rumors to rest.
...and the black dot in both images? They were purposely put there by the government since there's something on Mars it don't want us to know about.
(Hey, conspiracy theories have to start somewhere so it might as well be here.)
Thanks for the link OM. Fascinating. http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif
w5lda
03-15-2007, 11:27 PM
Quote[/b] (WB2WIK @ Mar. 15 2007,09:03)]They're gonna find Ray Walston beneath the ice, putting all those rumors to rest.
WIK
I just wonder how many on here know who Ray Walston is
KE5FRF
03-16-2007, 12:06 AM
All of that ice HAS to be insulating the water deep beneath the surface! Think igloo.....And all planets generate a certain amount of heat at their core. Here on Earth, there are ecosystems in caves and in extremes like Antartica where life has a harsh existance, but still thrives. I would be fascinated if they could get a core sample of that ice from VERY DEEP and bring it back to Earth. At some point, there simply MUST be a layer of flowing water.
W2ILP
03-16-2007, 12:07 AM
We will slowly get more evidence that the Sun's activity is presently causing all planets of the Solar system to show signs of warmer temperatures on their sides or poles that face the Sun. A Russian astronomer is certain that Solar activity is what is causing hotter weather on Earth, as it is on other planets of the Solar system....and not any change in any greenhouse effect.
Solar activity is cyclic and hams know that the most prevalent cycle has a period of approximately 11 years. The ionosphere layers that reflect radio waves do so when their threshold of ionization is lowered in the presence of sunlight. This effect happens at the speed of light...but the weather does not quickly follow solar activity changes because atmospheric convection and other factors require time for the Earth to increase heat. Thus there is a time lag before weather gets hotter. There is also a time lag before weather gets cooler when there is less Solar activity. At any rate it is believed by some scientists that Global Warming will peak in less than 5 years from now after that Global Cooling will begin and will cause a lot of freezing by about 15 years from now. I'm 73 years old so I'm not sure that I will be around to see if this hypothesis comes to pass...but anyway if I get to vote in the next Presidential election...I'm not going to vote for Gore or McClain or stop exhaling CO2.
w2ilp (I Like Planets)....They may be our best weather beacons after all!
W3MIV
03-16-2007, 12:44 AM
Quote[/b] (kd5vsg @ Mar. 15 2007,18:27)]I just wonder how many on here know who Ray Walston is
Was.
K9STH
03-16-2007, 01:44 AM
So is Bill Bixby.
Glen, K9STH
ad4mg
03-16-2007, 02:00 AM
Quote[/b] ] I just wonder how many on here know who Ray Walston is
I wonder how many will admit they know who Ray was? http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/laugh.gif
I'll admit it. And I'm "only" 50!
Count me in, too. Bet you didn't know he was a song-and-dance man on the stage before he left for TV.
ad4mg
03-16-2007, 02:30 AM
Quote[/b] (WF7A @ Mar. 15 2007,21:25)]Count me in, too. Bet you didn't know he was a song-and-dance man on the stage before he left for TV.
You're right, my first "sighting" of him was in that early sitcom he was in with Bixby. I was pretty young, and the show actually creeped me out a little!
kg4kww
03-16-2007, 03:37 AM
Yep, I have said on more than one once that there's a good chance of life on MARS. Ayou guys just laughed.
Now they have found water. Yea baby.
I hear they have spotted Martians ice fishing.
Mars' South Pole Ice Deep and Wide
March 15, 2007
Pasadena, Calif. -- New measurements of Mars' south polar region indicate extensive frozen water. The polar region contains enough frozen water to cover the whole planet in a liquid layer approximately 11 meters (36 feet) deep. A joint NASA-Italian Space Agency instrument on the European Space Agency's Mars Express spacecraft provided these data.
NASA; Full Story (http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2007-030)
N5NPO
03-16-2007, 03:46 AM
Quote[/b] (kg4kww @ Mar. 15 2007,20:37)]Yep, I have said on more than one once that there's a good chance of life on MARS. Ayou guys just laughed.
Now they have found water. Yea baby.
I hear they have spotted Martians ice fishing.
Mars' South Pole Ice Deep and Wide
March 15, 2007
Pasadena, Calif. -- New measurements of Mars' south polar region indicate extensive frozen water. The polar region contains enough frozen water to cover the whole planet in a liquid layer approximately 11 meters (36 feet) deep. A joint NASA-Italian Space Agency instrument on the European Space Agency's Mars Express spacecraft provided these data.
NASA; Full Story (http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2007-030)
Wow! That is a lot of ice(water). The whole planet!?!?!
36ft under... Anybody out there want to do the math and figure out how much water in gallons it would take to completely cover the entire surface of mars at least 36 feet?
Way over my head (no pun intended).
I understand mars has one huge tall volcano. I wonder if they figured on that thing too?