More Rivers Spotted on Mars

[Dover]

More Rivers Spotted on Mars
By Larry O'Hanlon, Discovery News



June 10, 2005 — Long-dead rivers have just had a population explosion in the dry valleys of Mars, according to a scientist at the Smithsonian Institution.

New data from orbiting Mars cameras have picked up evidence of 21 more rivers with flows once comparable to similar-sized rivers on Earth today. That makes 28 rivers, total, that may have once flowed on Mars.

Whether these were carved by single deluges, a few pulsed floods or a relatively brief rainy climate some 3.7 billion years ago remains a mystery....cont'd
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20050606/marsrivers.html

[Deja Q]

1. Water! That means there may have been life! And that means

there's oil in them thar red hills!

But it's red planet. It's COMMUNIST STATE! Not just that, but a COMMUNIST PLANET! :wow:

Better bomb it before drilling... :crazy:

[Racenut20]

2. Just in case there is some super Martian civilization

surviving beneath the surface, we should bomb them in order to save them. Then we can negotiate for oil rights.

[POAS]

3. I wasn't thinking commie I was thinking

Red State v. Blue State or in this case Red planet v. Blue Planet.

Good idea, they get Mars we get Earth. Fair trade in my book. Mars already has everything a red stater could want. No Liberals, no ecologists and a desperate need for global warming.

Rapture the neocins to Mars, that's the ticket!

[Orsino]

11. We cannot wait for the smoking gun...

...to come in the form of an iron-oxide dust storm.

[patricia92243]

4. What is the theory on why there are no rivers on Mars today? n/t

[w13rd0]

6. See "Early Bush Family History"...

...now they want to do for us what their ancestors did for Mars!

[glitch]

12. :) nt

[POAS]

7. I believe several theories exist

Most likely the atmosphere thinned out (weak gravity and lack of volcanism, although the exact mechanism isn't clear) causing most of the water to vaporize and get lost into space. One hoped for result is that not all the water was lost but was frozen as the atmosphere cooled and may now be trapped below the surface.

[patricia92243]

8. Will this happen to earth if we keep the "green house" going? n/t

[DrRang]

10. Nope, not Mars but Venus

Can't remember the details, but there's been speculation that Venus, with its temperatures in the 700 to 800F range, and sulphorous atmosphere, might be the result of a runaway greenhouse effect.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

9. CFC's and global warming.... eom.

[POAS]

5. Nominated for greatest page

[Coexist]

13. this is why fundies hate science

where there was water, there may have been life, and if there was life, they have to revise their beliefs again.

[progressoid]

15. No no. Haven't you heard?

Dinosuars, fossils, rivers on Mars, these are all tricks used by Satan to confuse us.

Repent before its too late!

[maddiejoan]

14. My God! It's full of Stars!

[Turn CO Blue]

16. Good, tell Mr. Scorpio, so we can give Mars to the neo-cons! n/t

[htuttle]

17. Percival Lowell was right after all!

:crazy: