October 2, 2003

George William Herbert wrote:

Thomas Lee Elifritz wrote:
George William Herbert wrote:
[...]
Then you are setting your photo interpretation skills and
analysis above that of, oh, for example all the professional
planetary science photo interpreters who have been working
for their entire careers on this problem.

You mean the same Malin and Edgett who first claimed that there
was no water on the surface of Mars, [...]

Elifritz CV in planetary science:
-0-

Malin CV in planetary science:
see 20 pubs listed below

Elifritz confidence level 1 demonstrated credibility 0
Malin confidence level 0.5 demonstrated credibility 1.0

You lose. You may be right, but you are not right for
demonstrably well founded reasons, and that's just as
bad as being wrong.

Let me see if I got your reasoning straight. Malin built a great camera, took a lot of pictures, published a lot of peer reviewed papers, but was demonstrably wrong in his
interpretation of the images, therefore his credibility in photointerpretation should be higher than Elifritz (that's me), who built no camera, published no papers, but was
demonstrably correct in his photointerpretation of the results (i.e. - his pre Odyssey claim that water exists on the surface of Mars).

It gets even more interesting, you claim that Elifritz (that's me), who was demonstrably right in his prediction of the existence of Martian water (post MGS, MOLA, pre
Odyssey) was right for the wrong reasons (i.e. - he published no peer reviewed papers) therefore his prediction is wrong about its general underground extant and
distribution..

You don't understand the geology,
physics, or photointerpretation well enough to be that
sure, and worse yet you don't understand that you don't
know it.

But I apparently have an demonstrated ability to see frozen groundwater in the Mars surface morphology, and I am able to visualize plausible climatological scenarios for its
geological evolution and distribution.

At worst, that makes me a dilettante.

Thomas Lee Elifritz
http://elifritz.members.atlantic.net