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Post by Virginia on Aug 18, 2012 0:12:16 GMT -5
The Mars rover is going to blow up a rock using a laser beam. I do not have a good feeling about blowing up something on another planet. But maybe I worry too much. Apparently NASA wants to look for sketical fossils maybe?
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Post by Virginia on Aug 19, 2012 9:38:40 GMT -5
Why are we looking for intelligent life on Mars when we haven't found it yet on Earth? Just pondering!
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Post by Dave on Aug 19, 2012 22:44:54 GMT -5
Duhh - what you say
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Post by Virginia on Sept 15, 2012 19:16:57 GMT -5
I just looked at the latest pictures from Curiousity on Mars. 15 pictures of the rover. How many pictures are they going to take of the rover itself. I want to see pictures of Mars. Is there stuff we should not see so they continue to show us nothing new?
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Post by Virginia on Sept 20, 2012 23:44:25 GMT -5
OK the Mars rover found a pyramid but not the one I am talking about. This pyramid shaped rock is only 10 inches high but looks like it was carved. They are going to inspect it closer.
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Post by Dillon on Sept 21, 2012 9:26:44 GMT -5
They should first flip it over Then position a 20 million dollar rubber hose at it and blow Once all the sand is removed, bring the rock close to the 30 million dollar camera's eye. Does that small tag say, "Souvenir of Atlantic City" "Made in China"Attachments:
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Post by Virginia on Sept 21, 2012 14:38:40 GMT -5
Dillon---I got a good laugh over your idea. Wouldn't that just blow everyone's minds if that was true.
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Post by Richard on Sept 22, 2012 12:20:13 GMT -5
Curiosity discovers pyramids on Mars?Posted on September 21, 2012 by thetruthbehindthescenes www.thetruthbehindthescenes.org/2012/09/21/curiosity-discovers-pyramids-on-mars/Looking uncannily like an Egyptian pyramid, it is not something you would expect to see on the surface of Mars. Nasa engineers were so intrigued by the unique, football sized rock, they have driven the Curiosity rover up to it for a closer rock. The football-size rock will be the first on Mars to be examined by rover’s robotic arm . Curiosity is about 8 feet (2.5 meters) from the rock. It lies about halfway from the rover’s landing site, Bradbury Landing, to a location called Glenelg. Read more at dailymail Besides the unique rock it seems like there are more pyramid shaped structures on Mars, possibly covered in Martian Dust. Attachments:
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Post by Virginia on Sept 22, 2012 13:43:04 GMT -5
Dillon thinks this rock is a paper weight. Rover should turn it over and look for a MADE IN CHINA label.
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Post by Elflord on Sept 22, 2012 23:45:20 GMT -5
Whole thing is way cool.
I doubt we could ever terraform Mars but we could live there similarly to establishing moon colonies, I would think. Finding adequate H2O and good soil would be huge problems. That crap is heavy if you fly it there on a rocket.
Wish I could live long enough to see such a task completed. A research station is about as far as I see the world going as far as interest of visiting there goes.
Perhaps Venus is the better choice. Neither planet seems suitable to me for any serious consideration of inhabiting them, though.
Still fun to watch!!
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Post by Virginia on Sept 23, 2012 8:40:47 GMT -5
OK---We certainly know how to heat up a planet. One of the ideas is to start to plant vegetation (plants) that can withstand the extreme weather. There are plants that can do that.
Another idea is to build a biosphere like they built by Tucson. The biosphere would be totally enclosed and recycle waste and grow food.
Another idea is that those beings going to Mars would be one way only.
Another idea (well my idea) just ask the Aliens if we could share their quarters for a while. Maybe learn the tricks of the trade likenthe pioneers should have done with the Indians way back when instead of killing them off and taking their land away. We could have learned a lot from the Indian way of life. Learn how to live off the land. We could have made it easier on ourselves.
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Post by Dave on Sept 25, 2012 23:39:55 GMT -5
We are already expert at building "DUMBs" --- Deep Underground Military Bases The internet reports that there are tunnel drilling machines that can create 7miles of tunnel in a single day. The Rock is melted away in front of the machine and it forms a glass / ceramic wall finish. The perfect planetary shelter. Little to no maintenance. Safe from almost all weather disasters except earthquake. Already enclosed and separate from the host planet's atmosphere. If laid out in the correct proportions natural air flows could even offer passive ventilation. If there are Domes like these on Mars someday, they will just be surface access ports to the cities below ground. Attachments:
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Post by Virginia on Oct 9, 2012 23:03:47 GMT -5
The Mars Rover had to stop digging in the sand because it spotted a small shiny object that it is going to try to figure out what it is.
Probably a weather balloon. No ---too small.
Maybe sky divers ---no.
Maybe a tiny UFO for the microbs to travel in. (My best idea).
NASA said maybe a screw came lose from the rover. The only lose screw I know may be NASA's.
Will keep you posted.
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Post by Dillon on Oct 10, 2012 10:15:10 GMT -5
Most of the soil on Mars is some form of iron oxide, or contain iron oxide. Therefore the red color. Another name for iron oxide is just plain ole rust!
Iron oxide holds a lot of oxygen within its structure and it will cottupt most all neighboring metals. So, if they found something shiney, and it was naturally occuring; it would not be a metal.
Things not corrupted by oxygen are: Quartz, Mica, Silicates (glass), and Gems.
Perhaps, we have just dug the very first Diamond mine on Mars.
Now we just need those microbes to fly their little bitty UFO here and bring us a few.
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Post by Virginia on Oct 10, 2012 13:49:20 GMT -5
NASA immediately said it was part of the rover that felloff---way before anyone had a chance to examine it. That is the point I was trying to make. NASA will never tell us the truth.
When you talk about diamonds, I saw a tv show where they claim there is a astroid made up of a solid diamond, something up in the trillions of carots. I am sure NASA will try to mine it s0mehow if they can reach it.
When I looked at the picture of the shiney object---as much as I hate to admit it , it does looklike a screw.
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