On Thursday 07 December 2006 21:19, Robin van Spaandonk wrote: > In reply to Terry Blanton's message of Thu, 7 Dec 2006 17:44:15 -0500: > Hi, > [snip] > > >Gnorts, Vorts! > > > >I'm sure that, by now, all have heard the news. Mars is all wet. But, > > JIC: > > > >http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/12/061206-mars-water.html > > > >Terry > > > >Life is Ubiquitous > > The same types of things can be seen on the Moon, where there is no water, > and not even any atmosphere. I suspect they are dust "landslides". > Regards, > > Robin van Spaandonk > > http://users.bigpond.net.au/rvanspaa/ > > Competition provides the motivation, > Cooperation provides the means.
This is going to get like Chekhov's 'Cherry Orchard'. Everybody is talking past each other for their own ends....or jobs. Water will be found and incontrovertably proved when it is brought back or sampled by us. Until then it is like 'bigfoot'. Or better like random intermittant phenomena not unlike a bad connection in equipment. Now you see it now you don't. Personally I lean to the idea that we are not unique in the universe, and physical laws governing us do so for others as well. Exo geoligical processes seem earthlike on not only Mars but Titan as well. Branching dendritic stream passagways seem the same everywhere no matter what the fluid, water or ethanol or methane transported. By the same token, organic material older than our central star was found in a meteorite uncontaminated by terrestrial sources. Life in all likelyhood is panspermaic by its very nature, and we are probably nothing special. All else is ego and religion or both. Personally I would be happy even if we just found simple single celled life in the deepest reaches of the martian deep equatorial canyons. Standing Bear
