A hole in Mars

What a strange little solar system we have going on! The Astronomy Picture
of the Day (http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070528.html), reveals one
heck of a bizarre quirk on the Red Planet. I want to think there is an
advanced civilization living beneath the surface that didn't pay their
light bill before the power was turned off. Come on, Martians. . .get
those lights back on so we can peer into your habitat.


--
Martin R. Howell
Worldwide Amateur Astronomers
Moderated sci.astro.amateur
www.theastropost.com/moderated_sci.astro.amateur

On Mon, 28 May 2007 12:31:12 -0700, "Martin R. Howell"
wrote:

What a strange little solar system we have going on! The Astronomy Picture
of the Day (http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070528.html), reveals one
heck of a bizarre quirk on the Red Planet. I want to think there is an
advanced civilization living beneath the surface that didn't pay their
light bill before the power was turned off. Come on, Martians. . .get
those lights back on so we can peer into your habitat.

It makes me think of the deep boreholes (called moholes) that were used
in Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars books to tap into the planet's heat as
part of the terraforming process. We were the Martians.

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Chris L Peterson
Cloudbait Observatory
http://www.cloudbait.com

Sand Worms!
RUN!



"Martin R. Howell" wrote in message
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What a strange little solar system we have going on! The Astronomy
Picture
of the Day (http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070528.html), reveals one
heck of a bizarre quirk on the Red Planet. I want to think there is an
advanced civilization living beneath the surface that didn't pay their
light bill before the power was turned off. Come on, Martians. . .get
those lights back on so we can peer into your habitat.


--
Martin R. Howell
Worldwide Amateur Astronomers
Moderated sci.astro.amateur
www.theastropost.com/moderated_sci.astro.amateur

Mark F. wrote:
Sand Worms!
RUN!

No, that will just attract them.

On May 28, 2:31 pm, "Martin R. Howell"
wrote:
What a strange little solar system we have going on! The Astronomy Picture
of the Day (http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070528.html), reveals one
heck of a bizarre quirk on the Red Planet. I want to think there is an
advanced civilization living beneath the surface that didn't pay their
light bill before the power was turned off. Come on, Martians. . .get
those lights back on so we can peer into your habitat.

Those are just exhaust vents for the engines. They were attempting to
spark a greenhouse effect, but could never get a high enough
percentage of CO2. In any case, the exhaust vents are coated on the
inside with black soot...

Austin

On 2007-05-29, AustinMN wrote:

Those are just exhaust vents for the engines. They were attempting to
spark a greenhouse effect, but could never get a high enough
percentage of CO2. In any case, the exhaust vents are coated on the
inside with black soot...

It's actually a bubble that got sliced open. Thus proving that
even if the moon isn't, Mars is made out of cheese. ;-)

--
Andrew Smallshaw