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7th Graders Find Large Cave On Mars

Posted by timothy on from the ok-now-rhyme-something-with-uranus dept.

A newly discovered cave on Mars was found as the result of an interesting crowdsourcing project. As EMB Numbers writes, "CNET news reports that 'the science class from Evergreen Middle School in Cottonwood, Calif., found the opening while working on a research project with the Mars Space Flight Facility run out of Arizona State University in Tempe. ... The students examined more than 200 images of Mars taken with the Thermal Emission Imaging System (Themis), an instrument on NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter.' The only other similar opening near the volcano was found in 2007, when Glen Cushing, a scientist with the US Geological Survey, published a research paper on the surface anomalies. The opening is estimated to be 620 by 520 feet and the hole to be at least 380 feet deep."

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  1. Re:And this is why they cut the NASA budget by geekoid · · Score: 1, Troll

    They didn't cut the budget.

    Did you know there is a space plane in orbit? how about the many,many other project going on?

    Parts of constellation got scrapped, and for good reason.

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  2. Re:Can you be the first to define "crowd-sourcing" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Slavery is independent of compensation. Most slaves in the American south, for instance, were paid a daily wage. That's why, after many years of work, some of them could buy their freedom and become freemen.

    Many of the early freemen helped create the Underground Railway, to help slaves escape. After all, the problem itself wasn't the compensation they received, which was actually quite good for the time, given that it included housing, food, and money. The problem was that they couldn't move between employers, or choose to not work, because of the state laws at the time.

    And yes, this incident today is still a form of slavery. Children in our public schools do not have a choice about whether or not they want to attend. Attendance is compulsory throughout the US, as is partaking in school activities as dictated by the curriculum and teachers.

  3. Re:these kids today by terraplane · · Score: -1, Troll

    What a comedian you are. Really, I bow to your hilarity.

    So now we've got that out of the way, what purpose does this serve? Does anyone really think this stuff has a point to it?

    Why aren't these kids being punished for wasting school time and resources?