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Mysterious White Cloud Hangs Over Martian Volcano (vice.com)
Last month, the European Space Agency's Mars Express orbiter spotted a white cloud suspended over the western slope of Arsia Mons, an enormous volcano near the red planet's equator. The 930-mile-long cloud looks like the kind of volcanic plumes huffed out by Earth's active volcanoes -- but it's not; "Arsia Mons is long extinct -- its last eruption is estimated to have occurred around 50 million years ago," reports Motherboard. From the report: The volcano still plays a role in shaping the water-ice cloud, though, along with atmospheric dust levels and the Martian seasons. With its 12-mile-high peak and diameter of nearly 400 miles, Arsia Mons is 30 times more voluminous than the largest volcanoes on Earth. Its humongous bulk condenses and cools air currents as they pass over the summit, creating this âoeorographic cloudâ -- a nephologic formation that tend to form over leeward (downwind) slopes -- on the western flank of the volcano.
When did headlines evolve to say the opposite of what the article says?
Mars has an atmosphere, not air.
They're coming. This is the voice of the mysterons.
A "âoeorographic cloudâ"? Can we hit preview before posting a word I'm willing to bet few people have ever seen to ensure it isn't mangled by Unicode non-compliance?
The chances of anything coming from Mars, were a million to one, he said...
Somewhere out there all around on Earth, are thousands of social justice warriors of European decent who are feeling guilty for this racial slur in the Martian atmosphere and are right now scheduling rallies and boycotts to get rid of this imagined political scourge.
We have a new... er... Martian Pope!
Really, clickbait to a site which describes it as "a booger?" How about a link to the source.
"National Security is the chief cause of national insecurity." - Celine's First Law
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The Martian's are firing their giant cannons to launch their war-machines towards us. The invasion of Earth has begun.
"John Bahcall was a promising young astrophysicist when he was introduced to Gödel at a small Institute dinner. He identied himself as a physicist, to which Gödel’s curt response was "I don’t believe in natural science." The philosopher Thomas Nagel recalled also being seated next to Gödel at a small gathering for dinner at the Institute and discussing the mind—body problem with him, a philosophical chestnut that both men had tried to crack. Nagel pointed out to Gödel that Gödel’s extreme dualist view (according to which souls and bodies have quite separate existences, linking up with one another at birth to conjoin in a sort of partnership that is severed upon death) seems hard to reconcile with the theory of evolution. Gödel professed himself a nonbeliever in evolution and topped this off by pointing out, as if this were additional corroboration for his own rejection of Darwinism: “You know Stalin didn’t believe in evolution either, and he was a very intelligent man.”" (Incompleteness: the proof and paradox of Kurt Gödel, Rebecca Goldstein, pp. 31-32)
That should be "orographic cloud" not "âoeorographic cloudâ."
"Get Your Ass to Mars" activated the pyramid.
My ism, it's full of beliefs.
Nor were there dinosaurs. He who believes not in God, prostitutes his faith to any fancy.
If there is a God, I bet he's got a better imagination than you.
that takes all the credit for keeping most asteroids from crashing into earth, but we should not forget the Arsia Mons canon that takes care of the rest!
This is why I am taking a hiatus from reading Slashdot
It's Marvin the Martian powering up his subterranean giant laser gun! Get out the giant mirror to deflect it!
Snoop Dogg is the first to land on Mars!
It's Elon Musk, fake smoking a lot of weed in his new home on Mars for some weird PR stunt reasons.
Lenticular clouds are also created by air currents being lifted over mountains (or other terrain features). But they tend to disappear a short distance downwind of this point due to the air descending and the condensation re-evaporating. Either meteorology and thermodynamics are vastly different on Mars than on Earth, or this appears to be some gas venting from the summit.
Have gnu, will travel.
I thought it was just a smudge on my telescope's eyepiece.
How did dozens of posts manage to avoid saying something about Trump and prison and his fault for AGW on Mars and such?
Is the TDS crowd too depressed to post due to the Red Wave, coming 7-2 SC majority and 2020 re-election?
But! Worry not my brave SJW socialist friends! Chelsea has all but announced her 2020 entry into politics! You are saved by the coming of the child of The First Rapist and The Most Incompetent Candidate for POTUS, ever! Lol
I thought I was clever putting my evil underground volcanic lair on another planet! But the heroes discovered it anyway!
Minions, retreat! Back to the inside of the Moon!
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Mysterious White Cloud Hangs Over Martian Volcano
The 930-mile-long cloud
It's the collected steam pouring from the ears of every Earthling on hearing Kylie Jenner is the world's youngesf self-earned billionaire, getting a million dollars a tweet.
(-1: Post disagrees with my already-settled worldview) is not a valid mod option.
Jupiter: "Okay, who farted?"
Table-ized A.I.
This is just built up exhaust being vented from the underground Martian colonies.
Quaid activated The Machine!
See you ad dhe pardy Richtder!
My ism, it's full of beliefs.
Now that is how you disarm your opponent!