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February 13, 2005
MERGATE, Marsgate. The data embargo is complete. Not a single image downloaded yesterday. Thomas Lee Elifritz http://elifritz.members.atlantic.net |
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Thomas Lee Elifritz wrote yet another troll:
But I'll feed the troll anyway..... The Mars rovers are not equipped with microscopes good enough to see microbes. Also remember that Earth did not have multicelluar life until about 600 million years ago. Which means that life on Earth was single cell for 2 billion years. Which suggests that it's hard for life to make that jump, and maybe Mars life (if there is any) never did that jump. All we can say with the rovers is that we haven't seen any spiders on Mars, or turtles, but we can't tell one way or another about microbes, alive or fossil. |
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February 13, 2005
robert casey wrote: Thomas Lee Elifritz wrote yet another troll: But I'll feed the troll anyway..... I'm not trolling, I'm absolutely serious. The Mars rovers are not equipped with microscopes good enough to see microbes. Also remember that Earth did not have multicelluar life until about 600 million years ago. Which means that life on Earth was single cell for 2 billion years. Which suggests that it's hard for life to make that jump, and maybe Mars life (if there is any) never did that jump. All we can say with the rovers is that we haven't seen any spiders on Mars, or turtles, but we can't tell one way or another about microbes, alive or fossil. Actually, that's simply not true. Cells were symbiotic long before then, organized stromatolites, sponges, invertrebrates, etc, and multicellar specialization appeared very quickly after climatic stresses were self induced on the ecosystem by iron oxidation and oxygen accumulation. Mitochondia and ribosomes even the nucleus were basically specialized cells incorporated by other cells. We are just now finding out now how the fossil record of dna decoded organic chemistry actually proceeded, and since the chemical and environmental conditions on Mars were much different than the Earth, we can expect that the decoding of geochemistry proceeded in very different directions. I believe we are seeing evidence of this, but without any spectroscopy, it's hard to tell. The climate on Earth was very stable for 2 billion years. You simply haven't done your homework, why even comment? We are very clearly seeing fossil evidence in these images. Thomas Lee Elifritz http://elifritz.members.atlantic.net |
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are you a paid pollutical operative?
Thomas Lee Elifritz wrote: February 13, 2005 MERGATE, Marsgate. The data embargo is complete. Not a single image downloaded yesterday. Thomas Lee Elifritz http://elifritz.members.atlantic.net |
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February 14, 2005
holden wrote: are you a paid pollutical operative? No, I'm not republican. Two days now, zero images. Let me guess, they broke the rover! Thomas Lee Elifritz http://elifritz.members.atlantic.net |
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"Thomas Lee Elifritz" wrote in message
... Not a single image downloaded yesterday. Lets see... was that a Sunday? Traditional day of rest? Perhaps, they were taking a day off. You know, a bit of R&R. Maybe visiting their families for a change. |
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February 14, 2005
dar7yl wrote: "Thomas Lee Elifritz" wrote in message ... Not a single image downloaded yesterday. Lets see... was that a Sunday? Look at what we have today, more plains vistas, sundials, sky, and lots of images that are nearly a week old. Very few recent images, and nothing of the rock field directly ahead, with the sun behind the rover. They just can't cope with the reality that lies just ahead of them. Mars is drenched in water and ice. Only the surface is desiccated. Thomas Lee Elifritz http://elifritz.members.atlantic.net |
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![]() wrote in message oups.com... They just can't cope with the reality that lies just ahead of them. Mars is drenched in water and ice. Only the surface is desiccated. You keep talking about coverup of fossil discoveries. Any evidence for this? |
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February 14, 2005
Naaa, they're just totally befuddled geologists. Look at what is happening, Mars is turning out to be much wetter than they even imagined when they started this mission, then they found very little evidence for water on the plains of Gusev, which they thought should have been a huge sea at one time from the orbital imagery, then they get into the hills and find MASSIVE evidence of water, and now they have to totally reevaluate what they wrote up in August, and their whold idea of emplaced basaltic lava flows for the hills is dead in the water, so to speak, and everyone else is coming up with biological theories for berry formation at Meridiani, credible extremophile evolutionary developments, and suddenly they get up over the ridge and discover themselves in a rock field of staggering diversity and states of total water alteration, with numerous structural anomalies everywhere they look. They are trying to slow things down to the geologically slow pace that they are used to, when the results themselves are spiralling out of control. P205 off the scale, a model of impact flow deposition that indicates that the rocks are old, diverse, and loaded with water and hydrates, salts, etc, and more rock types than they can possible analyze, and the prospect that they will probably wrap up the whole life on Mars question in the next few weeks, while they're still planning for missions five years out. Then there is the problem of life on Mars, and what it means for their pathetic VSE - Visiting Space Expensively, that puts a real wrench in the gears for Man on Mars. Then, we have a faith based administration. Finally, when all this blew up in their face, the rover on the other side of Mars is suddenly stopped in its tracks, while racing off on a several kilometer trek, and they dig a hole in the ground and start taking pictures of patterns of berries, that if you really start looking at too closely, you will literally go insane at what you are seeing patterned out on the ground, at both sites. We are talking major weirdness here. You figure it out. I'm just the messenger. I encourage you to study the photos carefully, especially the ones that come out in the next few days, if they are able to negotiate the rocks. Thomas Lee Elifritz http://elifritz.members.atlantic.net |
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Thomas Lee Elifritz wrote:
February 13, 2005 MERGATE, Marsgate. The data embargo is complete. Not a single image downloaded yesterday. Thomas Lee Elifritz http://elifritz.members.atlantic.net They're hiding them in the Face in Cydonia, don't you know? -- Malcolm Street Canberra, Australia The nation's capital |
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