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Evidence Found of Lake, Catastrophic Flood on Mars
angkor points to this article on spaceflightnow.com, excerpting: "Scientists 'have discovered a large former lake in the highlands of Mars that would cover an area the size of Texas and New Mexico combined.'"
... except the massive flood which lasted 40 days and 40 nights was on mars not earth! now i wonder what happened to noah and all the animals?
Of course, it would be more useful to cover arizona and colorado with a lake at the moment.
Be wary of any facts that confirm your opinion.
I'm packing my swimsuit!
uhh.. no.. wait.. "former"... *mumble*
/John Sjolander, project manager Contribio
Mmm. Mars.
Job? I don't have time to get a job! Who will sit around and bitch about being broke and unemployed then?
What is it with texas these days ? ./ seems to measure anything extraterestrial in STU (Standard Texas Units).
Just for clarity : is this a metric unit ? Can we count in Millitexi, picotexi, GIGATEXI (drooldrool) ?
When will I end this grieving ? When will my future begin ?
I'm not interested until they find a Martian nudist beach.
I love those Martian chicks!
Greennecks.
...and he grinned, like a fox eating shit out of a wire brush.
A city where you can't get a drink...
That's easy. Noah's Ark was a spaceship. Duh!
Which reminds me of a German cartoon (http://www.nichtlustig.de/) recently: one sees the Ark in the background, and in the foreground is a small raft with a prophet-like guy and two unicorns. The caption reads "Noah's rival Ishmael was rather less successful", and one of the unicorns says to Ishmael, "By the way, we're gay."
Cheers,
Ethelred
Everyone wants to be Ethelred. Even I want to be Ethelred.
'the size of Texas and New Mexico combined.'
FYI, the European version of the article translates this into:
'the size of France'
Flood on Mars?!
There is no even single internet connection on Mars yet! How somebody could flood it?!
What's the difference between millions of years and one second?
As a resident of Rhode Island I'm terrified of the possibility that one of those floods "the size of Rhode Island" or wildfires "the size of Rhode Island" will someday actually happen IN Rhode Island.
Not only was the colorado river not always so small but the colorado river never flowed up hill.
The Colorado river established it's course in the early Tertiary (paleocene or eocene) and as the Colorado plateau was uplifeted the river maintainted its course by increasing its rate of erosion, slicing through the uplifting plateau like a "hot knife through butter".
This is a very basic summary of the events, more can be found here.
Geology is not over due for a Harlan Bretz. Though, the ignorance you display of basic geology in your post (why are many of the fossils in each layer have been aligned in one direction...facing Mecca when they died? )it would seem geology is long over due to be taught in primary schools.
Though those are plausibe question--many were asked in the 1800's when the grand canyon was first studied--they have long been answered and explained by the most basic concepts of modern geology.
Those of you who modded the above up as "insightful": turn you brain on.
NMG
>better referred to as an inland sea like the Great Lakes
I'm not even going to comment on this.
How'd he cram in all those animals?
Gamingmuseum.com: Give your 3D accelerator a rest.
Why do americans feel the need to express everything in space, in how it relates to the size of texas?
Bruce willis: How big is that thing?
Some guy: It's as big as texas
Nasa nerd 1: I've found a lake on mars!
Nasa nerd 2: Really? where?
Nasa nerd 3: Up there on your left... It's about 1.2 texas'.
Picard: Number one, how fast are we currently travelling?
Riker: Approximately 200 million texas' per hour sir
Send lawyers, guns, and money!
You can't just put water in the tank and expect it to go
Oh really smart guy? Then explain why my little water powered rocket flies after I pump it up for 5 minutes! Water CAN make rockets fly!