Paul
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Posted: Wed Dec 22, 2004 | 03:51 PM
The scientific word for that phenomon is "shadow" |
Nick
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Posted: Wed Dec 22, 2004 | 03:52 PM
pah. i'll believe it when it's bottled and for sale on eBay. |
ESPin
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Posted: Wed Dec 22, 2004 | 04:01 PM
You can believe it. Look at 5542988452 on ebay. |
The Curator
in San Diego
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Posted: Wed Dec 22, 2004 | 07:07 PM
No, that's not a shadow. Scroll down to the bottom to see the water-like feature. But if there was water on Mars we would have heard about it in the news. |
Paul
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Posted: Wed Dec 22, 2004 | 07:29 PM
Ah. Well The "top left hook" seemed too obvious.
Yes the "puddle" at the bottom also looks like water.
I'm sure that's just what we want it to be too. |
Rex D.
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Posted: Wed Dec 22, 2004 | 09:36 PM
Isn't it a bit cold for liquid water on mars?
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Myst
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Posted: Wed Dec 22, 2004 | 11:54 PM
i'm going to sound really far out here but what about some kind of smooth crystaline formation or lava glass? |
Rex D.
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Posted: Thu Dec 23, 2004 | 02:07 AM
Thats not really far out there, thats actually a suggestion. Possibly, why not? |
Rex D.
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Posted: Thu Dec 23, 2004 | 02:09 AM
I meant to say a <good> suggestion |
Rex D.
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Posted: Thu Dec 23, 2004 | 02:11 AM
Or it could be....martian urine |
Myst
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Posted: Thu Dec 23, 2004 | 02:56 AM
LOL Rex you are as nuts as Hairy and Bug! |
Rex D.
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Posted: Thu Dec 23, 2004 | 03:49 AM
Thats what I'm here for. |
Hairy Houdini
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Posted: Thu Dec 23, 2004 | 09:58 PM
Hairy? Nuts? eeeyuw... That's not water, kids. It's OIL. Why the hell else would GWB want us to go there so badly? Unless it's Vodka... hmmm...
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Rex D.
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Posted: Thu Dec 23, 2004 | 10:18 PM
That makes sense Hairy, why the sudden interest in mars once again? Oil! Big-Bush & Baby-Bush gotta go get some. |
Citizen Premier
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Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2004 | 10:43 PM
This looks like a really up-close picture, for one thing; which means that perhaps it is some chemical dumped out of space equipment or something... but it doesn't look like martian geography anyways. More like some bad picture someone took. Where did you read that this was from mars? |
BugbearSloth
in earth, 3rd planet, sol system
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Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2004 | 11:35 PM
Hairy is right. It IS vodka. Vodka! Grey Goose, anyone?
Rex D is right. It is too cold on the surface of Mars for liquid water.
Paranormal.about.com is about on the same level as Coast to Coast with George Noorey: hogwash. They try to purport themselves to be more serious, like snopes.com, but I beg to differ. |
Hairy Houdini
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Posted: Fri Dec 31, 2004 | 12:48 AM
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/mer/images.cfm?id=1401 |
Myst
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Posted: Fri Dec 31, 2004 | 01:21 AM
Bug it isn't vodka, it is moonshine and there isn't any left because the martians drank it all! |
dave
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Posted: Sat Jan 01, 2005 | 03:12 AM
It's a great thought about vodka or even a martian urine 😊 Well I think we'll never know for sure what is there in a fact for sure. And I don't mean water or something. I mean that they will tell us just what they want to tell us and what they want us to tell to each other. |
Rex D.
in Milwaukee, WI
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Posted: Sat Jan 01, 2005 | 04:05 PM
I still say the martians play games seeing who can pee on the moving target the most. Wouldn't you if you were on such a dull and boring planet? I'd even pee on astronauts when they came to mars. Astronauts are moving targets, aren't they? That's kinda' like this game I invented called "go to the middle east and touch as many people as you can with your left hand in one minute." I'm thinking about making a point system. ❓ |
HEXVEXX
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Posted: Sun Jan 02, 2005 | 02:02 PM
I don't know how odd this thought is but to me, the picture likes a warhammer fighting surface and the picture has just been taken in black and white. |
Rex D.
in Milwaukee, WI
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Posted: Sun Jan 02, 2005 | 05:14 PM
Martian pee! Martian pee! Martian pee! |
Myst
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Posted: Sun Jan 02, 2005 | 05:26 PM
LOL Leave it to you Rex. You crack me up! :lol: |
Rex D.
in Milwaukee, WI
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Posted: Sun Jan 02, 2005 | 05:37 PM
Thanx Must. And other than the marvel superhero, whats a warhammer? By the sound of it, I think I want one. |
Myst
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Posted: Sun Jan 02, 2005 | 06:15 PM
I think (don't quote me on this) HEXVEXX is referring to a game called Warhammer.
http://www.atraffic.com/Warhammer/whmrprod.htm
Of course I am assuming and you know what happens when you assume. |
Rex D.
in Milwaukee, WI
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Posted: Sun Jan 02, 2005 | 07:09 PM
Oops! Sorry Myst. I just noticed the misspelling. I can't get there.(Here we go again). An error page comes up saying I need to adjust my browser settings. No idea how to do this, or what to set them to. I figure the computer master 'Myst in the Machine'Could give me yet another hand pleeeaaaaase? |
Myst
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Posted: Sun Jan 02, 2005 | 08:06 PM
Thanks Rex, but I am no computer master. :red: I know a few tricks here and there and that is about it.
Did you try refreshing the page? sometimes a page doesn't load for one reason or another, especially if you are using Internet Explorer for your browser |
Rex D.
in Milwaukee, WI
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Posted: Sun Jan 02, 2005 | 08:23 PM
Yes, but with no such luck. I suck at this technological crap. I was against computers when they started infiltrating homes all across America, so haven't had much play with them. I inadvertantly kept myself out of the loop. When I saw my stand as a failure, I joined the crowd. Computer. Yay. Thats why I know nothing about them. Funky huh? |
Myst
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Posted: Sun Jan 02, 2005 | 09:00 PM
LOL I know how you feel Rex. I learn new stuff everyday and yet there are people who know more than I could forget.
I wish I could help you, but my browsers etc are set at the default settings, I never mess with that stuff. |
The Curator
in San Diego
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Posted: Sun Jan 02, 2005 | 09:11 PM
Rex, the page wouldn't load for me at first. Now, a few hours later, it loads without a problem. Go figure. |
Myst
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Posted: Sun Jan 02, 2005 | 09:48 PM
Too many people trying to access the page at one time maybe? |
Rex D.
in Milwaukee, WI
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Posted: Sun Jan 02, 2005 | 11:14 PM
Man...you guys are good. Thanks. 😊 |
Dave
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Posted: Mon Jan 03, 2005 | 03:09 AM
Original photo does not look like having a water ever somewhere around the rocks. It looks like a grey sand. Seems like the pic that started this discussion was somehow corrected for the liquid effect. |
Rex D.
in Milwaukee, WI
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Posted: Mon Jan 03, 2005 | 03:20 AM
I hope your not talking about martian pee. You just leave that up to me. Alright? I'm the martian pee king! No, really though, if your talking about the pic up in the corner, forget it. You need to go find a bigger and more clear pic. It really does look like water, but it can't be. Cuz' it's martian pee. |
lampshade
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Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2005 | 11:08 AM
that does look like sand. Also, if you look at the NASA pic and the one in the first link, some shadowing has been added to the second one by someone, and it appears that some areas of the image have been darkened and brightened, making it appear as if it was water, not martian sand. |
Captain Al
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Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2005 | 11:46 AM
The existence of water on Mars has already been proven.
<a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap050401.html">Water on Mars</a> |
stork in the absence of Martian Pee
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Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2005 | 06:53 PM
If you go back to the APOD Index site,and look up the posted picture for 07/20/05, there is an excellent photo of real water ice on Mars. http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap050720.html
Sorry, don't know how to hotlink this. |
stork
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Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2005 | 06:56 PM
Well, guess it worked, after all. Cool! |
Winona
in USA
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Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2005 | 07:54 PM
stork, the pic worked so you can do it that way, or you can:
click "link" on the bar above the message box where it says 'strong', 'em', etc. Paste in the link, title it, and either ignore the last prompt or post something in it. That should work in the future.
(ray bradbury) |
Mark-N-Isa
in Midwest USA
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Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2005 | 10:55 PM
Ultra fine dust that's left undisturbed can give the appearance of water or liquid when viewed under the right conditions. This is a published picture and has been around. So, the only part of it that's a hoax, is the part where someone took it and said that area was water (because it looks like it) when in reality it's not. Mars is so cold that liquid water poured from a glass would freeze and crystalize before it ever even hit the ground, something I have seen happen here on Earth where it's MUCH warmer. No chance for liquid water on Mars without some external heat source such as volcanism. |
