Almost 90,000 feet tall, as wide as the state of Arizona, Olympus

[HysteryDiagnosis]

Mons, an enigma that defies explanation.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DABEeixgxgs&feature=player_embedded#!

[panader0]

1. I can't watch videos on my dial-up

What's the deal?

[madrchsod]

5. some really cool graphics and such about mars.

[sally cat]

2. "Almost 90,000 feet tall, as wide as the state of Arizona" Arizona is only 17 miles wide?

[HysteryDiagnosis]

3. Let me watch again and see where I effed up, yup, as wide as the

state of arizona....

Area Ranked 6th in the US
- Total 113,998 sq mi
(295,254 km2)
- Width 310 miles (500 km)
- Length 400 miles (645 km)
- % water 0.32
- Latitude 31° 20′ N to 37° N
- Longitude 109° 3′ W to 114° 49′ W

[Subdivisions]

6. 17 miles is the height of OM from Mars mean surface level.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympus_Mons

[HysteryDiagnosis]

8. A Rush fan, and no not that Rush.... excellent.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQmz494XBkg

[Subdivisions]

14. You got it HD. They really hit the nail on the head with that tune. n/t

[madrchsod]

4. cool.....

[AsahinaKimi]

7. O.O"

wow, incredible. This is why I love science programs!

[Posteritatis]

10. Pity this one didn't have a real scientist involved..

David Talbott believes that Earth was eight times further from the sun than it is until a few thousand years ago, among other even dumber things.

[Posteritatis]

9. Love Olympus Mons, but Talbott's still an idiot. (nt)

[HysteryDiagnosis]

11. For now little one, for now. Hystery has a way of making fools of

all of us.

[Posteritatis]

12. Yeah, it made fools of any and all Velikovskians a long time ago. (nt)

[HysteryDiagnosis]

16. I thought you were about to say the earth is the center of the

galaxy/universe, but we all know that is sort of a stretch.

[Posteritatis]

17. People who believe that and people who believe the Earth was once 9 AUs out are equally stupid. (nt)

[Peregrine]

13. "Defies explanation", really

We don't have all of the answers for a geographical feature more that 35 million miles away that may have been formed millions of years ago. OMG, science is a hoax.

Actually the Hawaiian island volcanoes do have a scarp, its under the Pacific. These volcanoes technically are as tall as Olympus Mons, their base is on the floor of the Pacific.

[GrpCaptMandrake]

15. Oy!

There's a nice handful of life I'll never get back.

When I heard the guy talking about "Marzhian," I had a clue I was dealing with an Erik von Daniken type.