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Maps Show Mars Was Once More Like Earth

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the also-dogs-were-once-more-like-cats dept.

vrioux writes "NASA scientists have discovered additional evidence that Mars once underwent plate tectonics, slow movement of the planet's crust, like the present-day Earth. A new map of Mars' magnetic field made by the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft reveals a world whose history was shaped by great crustal plates being pulled apart or smashed together. ."

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  1. Re:If Mars was like Earth... by Idealius · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    I was going to mod this insightful, but then I decided to do some research about the facts.

    "The climate-aerosol debacle: The U.N. science advisory group, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), has a big credibility problem. Its 1996 report, the basis for Kyoto, had to admit that the rapid warming predicted by computer models was not occurring. So they hit on an explanation to account for the discrepancy: Sulfate aerosols, particles created from the burning of coal and other sulfur-containing substances, were supposed to reflect incident sunlight and create an offsetting cooling--forcing an agreement with the observations that show no warming trend. Unfortunately for the IPCC, the details don't match. The Southern Hemisphere, containing fewer aerosols, should be warming more rapidly-but it isn't."

    by S. Fred Singer
    Washington Times, January 10, 1999

    http://www.sepp.org/glwarm/partinggreen.html
    http://www.sepp.org/bios/singer/biosfs.html

    But then again, lets take a look at what a certain third party has to say about his character:

    http://www.ecosyn.us/adti/Singer-Nightline.html

    I wish I had time to follow the trail further.. I leave you to your own conclusions. Maybe someone already knows, but with agendas flamebait is inevitable.. I look to someone with a very reliable source to clear this up.

  2. The Real Reason: George Bush by Snafoo · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Mars used to be a lot like Earth, but then they voted for a George Bush, who burst from the chest of Sigourney Weaver. They started randomly attacking oil-bearing nations in Martian Gulf, and then drilling in Martian Alaska, and so forth.

    Hey, it ain't called the 'red planet' for nothing.

    Red planet, blue planet...

    --
    - undoware.ca