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Hellish Vision of Mars Unveiled
mvladivostok writes "Yahoo has an interesting little article in which it is suggested that Mars may not have once been a warm, wet and hospitable planet that somehow lost its atmosphere; instead, it is suggested that the dead planet was occasionally bombarded by melting meteorites that carved out its distinctive craters and valleys. An interesting read."
This means that we may not actually know for certain what the state of Mars was 3 billion years ago. What a surprise.
occultae nullus est respectus musicae - originally a Greek proverb
We should send a team of Disney lawyers to check it out in person.
At first I thought this article was about Doom 3.
Yeah... But there goes our "We're just making it how it used to be!" argument when foolish Greenies are protesting our tereformation of the planet.
That planet used to be white, disney most own the photos.
i suddenly can't believe in total recall anymore. the oxygen machine could not have withstood the meteor bombardment...
http://unmoldable.com W:"No one of consequence" I:"I must know" W:"Get used to disappointment"
Greenies want to keep the earth from changing.
Would you call people who want to keep Mars from changing either Reddies or Brownies?
"Everything you know is wrong. (And stupid.)"
Moderation Totals: Wrong=2, Stupid=3, Total=5.
Is there already a patent covering the idea of exploring mars through human missions?
"Mars is essentially in the same orbit... Mars is somewhat the same distance from the Sun, which is very important. We have seen pictures where there are canals, we believe, and water. If there is water, that means there is oxygen. If oxygen, that means we can breathe"
Spare me your "theories" of a harsh surface! If our democratically elected President believes we can breathe there, we can!
Why bother.
Oi, some of my best friends are primitive.
Diplomacy is the art of saying "nice doggie" whilst looking for a rock
Down in the corner there was a standard disclaimer to the effect that if you found any inaccuracies in the map during use, NASA and the USGS weren't responsible.
Use?
"Fundamentalism" isn't about divine morality. It's about human authority.
It's battered planet syndrome.
I'd rather terraform Pluto, like they did in Starship Troopers.
While it would explain Mars having more impacts than Earth, it wouldn't explain that many.
I'm not sure about that. Every time I play as Mars in SimEarth I always bombard the hell out of it immediately with at least 20 Ice Meteors to form an ocean.
Who's to say that the universe doesn't play SimEarth the same way that I do?
We can neither love nor pity nor forgive. If you make a slip in handling us you die!
well, since the cause of the coloring on mars is Iron Oxide, I think they should be called Rusty
*ba dum!*
"I would say that 99 per cent of what my father has written about his own life is false." - L. Ron Hubbard Jr.
I refuse to believe this. Mars had an atmosphere and environment and ecosystem EXACTLY like the Earth, only much, much better. There were over a hundred trillion different species of animals and over nine hundred trillion different species of plants. The vegetation was lush and full everywhere except the oceans, which comprised twenty seven and a third percent of the planet's surface. Over a period of twelve thousand years, the people of Mars became incredibly intelligent and had built underground caverns of terrifying proportions in which they constructed enormous cities without damaging any of the plants above ground. All of their actions and technologies fit precisely within the balance of their planet's ecosystem such that no pollution or impurities took place. They began to explore other planets and had arrived at the farthest reaches of the universe. Then, a Martian child saw an interesting stamp on a little Martian girl's school desk and thought it looked cool, so he took it without telling anyone. The girl found this out and a fight broke out between her and the boy. As she could not prove who had done it, she became very angry and involved her parents. The boy's parents thus became involved in the argument and a family feud resulted. This escalated into a citywide riot, which resulted in a war between two neighboring cities, which had further involved their governing states. Within a matter of days after the stamp had been stolen, all of Mars was engulfed in a massive and horrendous world war which caused all the underground caverns to collapse onto the cities they contained, destroying them and the vegetation, and ending the fine balance in the ecosystem which made Mars such a nice place to live. The only remaining Martians alive were three astronauts on a Martian spaceship, a man and two women, who found themselves marooned on Earth when their spacecraft broke down while in orbit of the Earth's moon. They made an emergency landing, expecting that a rescue mission would be launched within a matter of days. That mission never took place. The astronauts thus reproduced into the human population as we know it today. That was approximately fourteen thousand years ago.