Fossilized Slime Blobs and Blobules on Mars!

February 22, 2005

I can hardly look at that stuff and keep a straight face any more.

Check it out!

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

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February 22, 2005

I can hardly look at that stuff and keep a straight face any more.

Check it out!

Plonk!

Jeff
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February 23, 2005

Jeff Findley wrote:

I can hardly look at that stuff and keep a straight face any more.

Check it out!

Ok, you aren't interested in alien terrain, maybe someone else is :

http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/spi...0P2373R1M1.JPG

Of course, NASA insists there is a prosaic explanation for all this,
surely only ordinary basalts, nothing more, nothing less.

Of course, I disagree.

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

"Thomas Lee Elifritz" wrote in message
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Jeff Findley wrote:
I can hardly look at that stuff and keep a straight face any more.
Check it out!

Ok, you aren't interested in alien terrain, maybe someone else is :
http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/spi...0P2373R1M1.JPG

Looks like the same old schist to me.

Of course, NASA insists there is a prosaic explanation for all this,
surely only ordinary basalts, nothing more, nothing less.
Of course, I disagree.

Of course, you would have to disagree.
You are disagreeable in nature.

no regards,
Dar7yl

February 22, 2005

dar7yl wrote:

I can hardly look at that stuff and keep a straight face any more.
Check it out!

Ok, you aren't interested in alien terrain, maybe someone else is :
http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/spi...0P2373R1M1.JPG

Looks like the same old schist to me.

I completely fail to see how they could be shists, given their location
and morphology. That would involve tectonism, which is absent
at this location.

Of course, NASA insists there is a prosaic explanation for all this,
surely only ordinary basalts, nothing more, nothing less.
Of course, I disagree.

Of course, you would have to disagree.
You are disagreeable in nature.

Only when the evidence does not support the assertion.

These basalts seem fractured, exhumed, mixed, impact deposited,
covered by water rich, impact derived ash precipitation, frozen,
rethawed, and it looks to me like they are covered with
microbiological mats, which are decomposing the original
basalts, and reprecipitating them into cementateous
conglomerates and metabolite salts, and then
sloughing off the rocks as they decompose.

This whole scene reeks of water and (fossil) life.

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

"Thomas Lee Elifritz" wrote in message
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February 22, 2005

dar7yl wrote:

I can hardly look at that stuff and keep a straight face any more.
Check it out!

Ok, you aren't interested in alien terrain, maybe someone else is :

http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/spi...0P2373R1M1.JPG

Looks like the same old schist to me.

I completely fail to see how they could be shists, given their location
and morphology. That would involve tectonism, which is absent
at this location.

Of course, NASA insists there is a prosaic explanation for all this,
surely only ordinary basalts, nothing more, nothing less.
Of course, I disagree.

Of course, you would have to disagree.
You are disagreeable in nature.

Only when the evidence does not support the assertion.

These basalts seem fractured, exhumed, mixed, impact deposited,
covered by water rich, impact derived ash precipitation, frozen,
rethawed, and it looks to me like they are covered with
microbiological mats, which are decomposing the original
basalts, and reprecipitating them into cementateous
conglomerates and metabolite salts, and then
sloughing off the rocks as they decompose.

This whole scene reeks of water and (fossil) life.



When I look at that pic it appears to be what's left
of an old hydrothermal vent. Like this maybe....

http://www.nps.gov/yell/slidefile/th...ages/06197.jpg




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




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"Thomas Lee Elifritz" wrote in message
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dar7yl wrote:
Looks like the same old schist to me.

I completely fail to see how they could be shists, given their location
and morphology. That would involve tectonism, which is absent
at this location.

There is no evidence either way for tectonic activity in this area.
Schists do not need tectonic activity to form. Just pressure
or shock (Not that I'm claiming these are schists, merely
medium-grained morphic rocks -- oh, isn't that what schists are?)

These basalts seem fractured, exhumed, mixed, impact deposited,
covered by water rich, impact derived ash precipitation, frozen,
rethawed, and it looks to me like they are covered with
microbiological mats, which are decomposing the original
basalts, and reprecipitating them into cementateous
conglomerates and metabolite salts, and then
sloughing off the rocks as they decompose.

This whole scene reeks of water and (fossil) life.

Looks like you covered all the geomorphic bases here.

I agree with the water, but until I actually see BEM fossils,
I remain skeptic. The pics you referenced don't have enough
resolution to ascertain significant features with confidence.

Perhaps you could convince the MER team to retrace Spirit's
steps and micro-image all the rocks here until they find a fossil.
(:tic

regards,
Dar7yl

Thomas Lee Elifritz wrote:
February 22, 2005

I can hardly look at that stuff and keep a straight face any more.

Check it out!

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


I'd love to see your answers to a Rorschach test.

On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 19:57:37 -0600, in a place far, far away, "Mark C.
Farrington" made the phosphor on my monitor glow
in such a way as to indicate that:

I can hardly look at that stuff and keep a straight face any more.

Check it out!

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


I'd love to see your answers to a Rorschach test.

What makes you think you aren't?

February 22, 2005

"Mark C. Farrington" wrote:

I can hardly look at that stuff and keep a straight face any more.

Check it out!

I'd love to see your answers to a Rorschach test.

I'd like to see you critically comment on the strange
morphology of alien rocks, but alas, you are a cretin.

Let me guess, you're an AMERICAN, no?

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