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Mars Phoenix Probe Successfully Launched
necro81 writes "The Mars Phoenix lander, built from the ashes of two earlier Mars missions, successfully launched atop a Delta II rocket from Canaveral this morning. The mission takes the 350-kg lander to northern latitudes (comparable to Greenland or Siberia) to investigate subsurface ice for the chemical precursors of life. The lander should arrive on Mars on May 25, 2008. 'NASA has never attempted to land a spacecraft on Mars at such a high northern latitude. A lander intended for the red planet's South Pole went silent immediately upon arrival in 1999. That failure, combined with the loss of the companion Mars orbiter, prompted NASA to cancel a 2001 lander mission. The parts from that scrapped mission were used for Phoenix, thus its name, which alludes to the mythological bird that rises from its own ashes.'"
That is what they probably said.
first post.
I think we should be wary of these so-called "scientists" who do nothing but tell us lies about so-called global warming, denying the truth. They are usually atheists, which explains why they believe in the absurd theory of heliocentricism. Instead of curing us with prayer, doctors kill our precious children by refusing to prescribe antibiotics. Furthermore, scietists are notorious for using shoddy un-Christian European software like Linux, thereby destroying our Great Nation's wealth maximization potential. Truly, is there anything less scientific than science?
It is against this backdrop, friends, that I must share my fears: What if Mars is just a myth created from the discredited theory of astronomy?