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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.'"
The BBC website has a related article about the formation of the Ma'adim Vallis. It can be found at News.BBC.Co.Uk
Just you're average nitpicker.
You've got the translation wrong. Closer to the size of France and Spain.
--Be human.
The problem with pedantary is that you really have to be sure that you're correct.
3. (Geol.) A violent and widely extended change in the surface of the earth, as, an elevation or subsidence of some part of it, effected by internal causes also 3: a sudden violent change in the earth's surface [syn: cataclysm]
Before someone tries to up the pedantry, there's nothing in the greek root of either words that's specific to the third planet of our solar system. ;-P
If you were blocking sigs, you wouldn't have to read this.
The Colorado wasn't always a little stream. Since huge numbers of people started moving to Arizona and Southern California, and others started growing crops in the desert, the Colorado has been tapped for irrigation.
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and enemy of growth. -JFK
Several possible flood events that could have caused it, most probably the flooding of the Black sea or the Mediterranian, although the flooding North Sea Plain at the end of the ice age must have been pretty traumatic to people at the time.
I'll get modded down by the atheists
No, if I had mod points I'd be modding it up - "funny".
A 300 cubit or approximately 450 foot ship is pretty big (not quite as big as the Navy supply ship my son is serving on, but still big). There were reasons wooden ships were not often made that large - even the best shipwrights with the strongest woods have trouble achieving enough structural strength to withstand wave action beyond about 300 feet length, the ship becomes too hard to maneuver with sails or oars, it's too big for most old-time harbors, and you can't drag it up on the beach to scrape barnacles and re-stuff the seams. Noah wouldn't have had to worry about the last two, but he was no boatwright, and for his first large construction to have held together in the rough waters of a flood would have been indeed miraculous. Managing to keep control of it sufficiently to not get the bottom ripped out as flood waters dragged it across submerged forests and rocks would have been another miracle. Getting the animals there would have been another...
If I was inclined to believe in this at all, I could probably swallow those three miracles. The big problem is that it would have been utterly impossible for that one ship to have carried all the species of bacteria in the world. (Mark Twain first noticed this little discrepancy, over a century ago.)
And you're insulting his lack of understanding. Petroleum provides energy to cars. Find me an extraplanetary rocket that runs on water
Uhh... I would be a little more carefull about that "insulting...lack of confidence" part of yours.
The main booster of the Shuttle runs by burning hydrogen and oxygen into water. Reverse the process and you're producing rocket fuel from water.