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The Dirt On Mars, In Words And Pictures
An anonymous reader writes "The Spirit rover's first soil analysis reveals some puzzling features about Gusev crater. The region seems to contain the greenish silicate mineral, olivine, which usually is considered water-reactive and thus volcanic in origin. For olivine to be found in the soil may point to rock formation during a drier period in martian history, even with strong evidence for sampling in an ancient lakebed. A second puzzle is why the soil seems so crusty. After the rover arm pressed soil down, the top layer of dust hardly moved, a finding that suggests something may be binding the dust like some type of salt or thin cement." For even more and better Mars pictures, read on below.
mlyle writes "I've spent a few hours hacking together some software to deal with the Mars Exploration Rover imagery at JPL. The software puts together a webpage and RDF feed of new raw imagery as it is posted to the JPL site, along with technical information decoded about how the picture was taken. It also produces stereo anaglyphs and color images that NASA has not seen fit to convert and make publically available. Be sure to also check out the ultra high resolution image of the lander as viewed from Spirit."
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Yet another crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered Howard Dean campaign when recent polls confirmed that Howard Dean accounts for less than a fraction of 15 percent of all voters. Coming on the heels of the latest Iowa caucus which plainly states that the Howard Dean campaign has lost more vote share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. The Howard Dean campaign is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead third in the recent Iowa caucus.
You don't need to be a Bill Schneider to predict the Howard Dean campaign's future. The hand writing is on the wall: the Howard Dean campaign faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for the Howard Dean campaign because the Howard Dean campaign is dying. Things are looking very bad for the Howard Dean campaign. As many of us are already aware, the Howard Dean campaign continues to lose vote share. Angry, lunatic rants flow like a river. Howard Dean's voice is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its volume due to his apish shreiks. The sudden and unpleasant departure of long time campaign contributor George Soros only serves to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: the Howard Dean campaign is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
Polling leader Zogby states that 38% of democrats support John Kerry. How many supporters of John Edwards are there? Let's see. The number of John Kerry versus John Edwards posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 19 to 16. Therefore about 32% of democrats support John Edwards. John Edwards posts on Usenet are about twice the volume of Wesley Clark posts. Therefore about 16% of democrats support Wesley Clark. A recent caucus put Dick Gephardt at about 11% of democrat voters. Therefore about 1.00 - (.38 + .32 + .16 + .11) = 3% of democrats support Howard Dean. This is consistent with the number of
Howard Dean votes in Iowa.
Due to the troubles of Howard Dean, temper tantrums and so on, Howard Dean's voters went to other candidates and were taken over by Dick Gephardt who sells another failed tax-and-spend philosophy. Now the Dick Gephardt campaign is also dead, its voters turned over to even less desirable candidates.
All major surveys show that the Howard Dean campaign has steadily declined in vote share. The Howard Dean campaign is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If the Howard Dean campaign is to survive at all it will be among far left peaceniks. The Howard Dean campaign continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, the Howard Dean campaign is dead.
Fact: The Howard Dean campaign is dead
well of course its crusty, thats what happens when your urinate on martian soil!
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The large amount of data -- nearly 100 megabits -- transmitted from Spirit in a single relay session through NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft today "is like getting an upgrade to our Internet connection."
My ISP, 10 miles from me, doesn't even seem to be able to maintain my DSL connection long enough to download 100 megs in one go. Sheesh...
And the other thing is, unlike NASA, whenever I try to download a 100 meg file, I usually get 99 megs, then the idiot on the other end of WinMX decides to cut of the connection before it completes. I guess it's good NASA didn't seem a spotty teenager inside the probe to send the images.
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he cuts'n'pastes the given data and throws in a few "this is interesting", "well done", "I hope to see more" comments.
his name is also a slightly mispelled version of another person.
It's an interesting social experiment, in the same way that posters who give the impression of being female always get modded up whatever they say. But I suspect the game is up by now.
Tough call.
Having barely passed a biochemistry class, I can say that the implementation of life is non-trivial.
The question then becomes, assuming The Creator implemented the periodic table consistently across Creation, how unique (and strict) are the life-requirements which Earth supports?
Hugh Ross is quite an interesting read on the topic.
BTW, what happened before Creation? See, everyone, at some point, gets backed into the taking-something-on-faith corner. Some are just more explicit about it than others.
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actually, i've noticed you on his "freaks" list, so i guess you'd figured it out by now.
i was wondering if maybe it was actually Rob or somebody blowing off steam and having fun.
I did notice that i was modded overrated seconds after posting, so . . . either it's so clear to everyone by now that even a casual person with mod points thought i was simply stating the obvious OR an editor bumped me so i wouldn't screw up the game.
just a thought.
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The red dot makes his posts easier to find :)
I actually started out being superbly annoyed by all this crap, I've only recently seen the funny side of it.
i was wondering if maybe it was actually Rob or somebody blowing off steam and having fun.
I did notice that i was modded overrated seconds after posting, so . . .
Yup, me too, the only other times I get modded down that quickly is when I take the piss out of Americans ;)
either it's so clear to everyone by now that even a casual person with mod points thought i was simply stating the obvious OR an editor bumped me so i wouldn't screw up the game.
I don't know which is scarier, that you could be right or that all the "great post! mod parent up!" people are for real.
Too bad people can't appreciate jokes like this. Though the joke is over now, I expect to see appear a 'rniguel de icaza' or 'CrndrTaco' soon. ;-)
"Honey, I feel a certain distance between us..." "Really? A 31ms ping ain't that bad..."
it's marschen grass!
maybe you can smoke it too?