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NASA Says Mars Rocks Formed in a Salty Sea
NASA has made another announcement, live on NASA TV, regarding the discoveries of the Spirit and Opportunity rovers. They believe that the rocks examined by Opportunity were actually formed in water; that those rocks were actually sediments laid down in a shallow salty sea. They've already had outside scientists examine their data and those scientists concur with the conclusions. NASA has a story with explanations and some photos.
Sometimes I wish I had a Hummer H2 just to piss people like you off.
Granted I would never be caught dead in one...but it sure would be fun to see you whine and bitch.
Bloody Yankee wannabe environmentalists.
On Soviet Red Planet, sea waters you!
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What are you talking about? The president clearly explained this in his state of the union address a year ago. To paraphrase: 'We know that in 1994 Irag had the potential to produce 10K liters or anthrax. Now, where is that anthrax?' So, now we know that mars had the potential to produce microorganisms, at least as much as Iraq did. Where are those microorganisms now? If it takes a full scale invasion of mars to not find these microorganisms, well so be it.
"The sad thing is the astornauts themselves are not the one's complaining."
Absolutely; its the ones making decisions that complain. They don't mind sending other peoples children to die in wars but they don't want to risk other peoples children in exploration. Bizarre.
"Making this an anti-American argument was just silly though."
I get the impression that many other nations, while not as active in space exploration at present are a lot less squeamish than the USA.
Sorry, but thats the impression I get.
If current trends continue, China will accelerate past the USA's manned space programme.
In the free world the media isn't government run; the government is media run.