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APOD photo http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html The text jokingly says, "This interstellar beast .... " However .. I see it as no joke - I believe the 'imaginary' creatures are genuine life forms, and will evolve. To witness the glimmerings of the possibility of endless varieties...

Yes .. Corkscrews - (Astrolabe's last post coalesced ((spellcheck needed)) part of my thinking on this) ... Spiral Galaxies seemingly corkscrew through space no matter which side of the face you view .. approaching or departing .. yet they appear flat when viewed edge on. One way that could be expla...

John .. Surely you can't be serious in your request? My elaborations would take far too much room on this forum .. my goodness, my equation for the hindrance-multiplication effect of .777 photon on the relativity of near finese mass affected by the nexus of plexus would take up 9,234.1 zorbahydrants...

"Pity the unfortunate slave chained to his theory." Sputnick, April, 2008 John:1 - (not to be confused with John 1: 1 to 3 - or John 3:16) - the 20 pieces you refered to were different sizes whereas the Phobos impacts would have to be from identical size rocks .. tens of thousands of ident...

Well BMA - sea of stars is a picturesque description .. very poetic. But the scripture is clear that the firmament contains the stars, sun and moon; with waters being above that firmament (water which I expect to be discovered post haste with the new telescopes - water in some form beyond the furthe...

This photo http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080420.html clearly demonstrates a phenomenon which indicates we seem to understand next to nothing about time and space. Most spiral galaxies viewed face-on appear to be travelling away from us, with the spirals closer to us than the nucleus .. or at le...

... and besides ... what is a beginning but an anti-end - - and an anti-bnd but a beginning?

Well Makc .. (and I recognize Nereid ((that you)) may be reading this) if that post is considered garbage by ((you)) Nereid it means that she ((you)) is ((are)) not open to speculative science or the opinion of others .. and as a matter of fact the anti-gravity speculation fits in rather nicely to t...

Yes John, this is interesting . . vexing . I won't say fun because your refusal to even mention the steam theory deminishes my ability to appreciate your personality, which I have great respect for. However .. I will be forgiving. Yes . . the straight lines do approach the lip of Stickney . . howeve...

Interesting posts .. however, the Hebrews were zealous in preserving their written and oral language particularly because the Torah and the rest of the Old Testament were their prime source of faith, intellect and knowledge; and there is a vast difference between ocean and sky - therefore I have to ...

endy, posts like yours will get this thread locked in no time. let's not ruin it, ok? Makc (Moderator) - Thanks for your weighing in on the side of enlightenment; but I am confused as to why you object to Jendy's post. I found it thought provoking (if the Big Bang were real then the Centre would st...

Yes, Sorry John, but just because you say it's so doesn't mean it's so.

You had no reply to my steam theory.

Anyway .. I'm convinced the grooves are from ice mining ..
the preponderence of groove through the obvious ice area simply reinforces my belief.

I'm genuinely thinking the grooves are due to last ditch attempts at saving the Martian civilization by mining Phobos ice and hurling it into the Martian atmosphere. There are too many curiosities even for steam venting .. an no chance at all for impact chains.

NASA has recently determined that the substance flowing the crater's edge is not H2O. Using more sophisticated cameras the reflected light does not match the properties of H2O, and the light colored material has not shown signs of sublimation over the last year. Yes! Alcohol flowing on Mars! Martia...

Knowing next to nothing about C02 - could it flow as a liquid on Mars for a short enough duration to cause erosion resembling water erosion? I am not suggesting for a second, though, that water does not exist on Mars .. there is plenty of it. About maned versus robot - why do people think they know ...

Hi Amy,

It would make replies to your questions easier if you included the URL
in your post.

I'm not a photo expert so can't make any other contribution.

Art (and everyone) several obvious eliptical craters can be seen by enlarging http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080410.html to the highest resolution, and examining the lower, right hand 1/3 of the photo. These I will say are probably returning debris. By enlarging the photo other peculiarities com...

The U turns are unmistakeable on the largest of the photos on APOD. I'll try to find the photo and url. http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080410.html examine the lip of the crater in the white zone. The clearest 'U' is upside down, clear, unmistakeable, curving around behind the large, white crater...

From my experience with discussion forums I really doubt if many posters in any discussion forum read beyond the first five words of others' posts, making these posts almost meaningless .. however .. Art -- how do imacts from debris explain the curves in the grooves - most being complete U turns .. ...

BMA123 - Yes -- there is a swimming pool in my backyard .. but it has a blue liner, probably to hide the water pollution which permeates every drop on the earth's surface. Bystander's post is informative - however, sunrises and sunsets can be coloured .. some of this is pollution (simple dust for in...

Bystander -- In my experiences the sky has been exceptionally pollution free during Blue Moons. In your opinion why does the sky need no pollution to be blue (the sky often turning green or orange etc when polluted) but the sky in which the blue moon shines does need pollution? Please explain even t...

All the Roman church needed to do to set Easter in its calendar was to copy the Jews in their Passover as the original Easter occured during Passover, and as the Jews never entered the era of confusion and ignorance known as the dark ages. Moderator Nereid - please note that I am responding to a pos...

Wonderful! At least we have agreement that the moon can actually be seen as if coloured blue. Amazing! Agreement in a discussion forum! Well done! I am encouraged greatly. However, I can not agree that a Blue Moon would absolutely require pollution as the source of its hue as the natural colour of t...

Throwing monkey wrenches into things at low velocity does not, I assume, compare to high velocity ejecta created by high velocity impact?

No comments regarding my steam theory?

Bystander, Would you please differentiate yourself outstandingly from most contributors to these types of discussion groups by explaining the reasons for your statement? I'm very interested in your thought processes, because having lived in Canada all of my life, and now being over 60 years old, and...