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Hi Astro - I thought of skimmers also, like stones skipping over water, and examined the photo with those in mind .. but the changes in grooves' directions are too great, the craters don't appear to be elongated, the craters are too close together, too often the skimmer should fly off into space and...

Hi Astro - Someone on this site wrote that the moon's mass seems to inddcate 1/2 ice and 1/2 rock .. I think find it very easy to picture the silvery as ice. I, like others here, believe the red is dust from Mars, I believing the dust was shot into space from the big volcano .. Olympus Mons comes to...

Perhaps the moon is layered - and 'something' heats up the interior, turning ice to steam in explosive jets along the lines of layering - the jets blasting holes which look like craters. The U turns could be explained by folding of the layers before the larger entity was smashed to pieces by a giant...

Sorry John old chap .. I've examined the large photo closely .. and just as likely as your conclusion the grooves are trenches dug by automatated ice mining machines which hurled the ice into the Martian atmosphere .. a desperate attempt to save a civilization. What you take for impact creaters coul...

Genesis says, 'water above the firmament - water below the firmament - in the firmament stars, moon, sun. In the water below the firmament dry land appeared.' Nothing is said about the water above the firmament. Job says 'the earth is a sphere suspended on nothing'. Anyone wanna chat Biblical Astron...

I wonder what the currency will be when the 6 6 6 takes over completely, and monetary transactions are all transacted electronically? Being archaic as I am, I prefer cash, although that would be thought by many to be illogical, what with the risk of theft and loss.

I guess we shouldn't get too excited about circular landforms as the semi-circle of the coast of northwestern Africa shows that the simple breaking apart of land masses can create large curves instead of long, straight cracks .. and then we have the circle of Antarctica. Not being a geologist, but h...

Hi Neufer - I doubt if the ejecta from a collision the size of Stickney would return to it because in my unlearned opinion it would be blasted too far out .. and if returned to anywhere it would probably fall onto Mars, attracted by the much larger Martian gravity. Of course - the grooves could have...

In the Digg forum someone suggested Martian miners as the groove makers, and at first I chuckled to myself - but consider a planetary civilization dying of thirst with a huge ball of ice just 'up there' .. build machines which would dig the ice and hurl it into Mar's atmosphere hoping for rain, and ...

Qev,
You say the Geological Survey says 'almost certainly not' an impact. I thought geology in this age would be more exact. Okay - I've read your reference now and the Survey sounds certain that it is not an impact. Nice round shape though.

John, you believe water needs an atmosphere to flow only because that is what your experience and knowledge tells you .. but there is experience and knowledge beyond you. Until a short time ago the speed of light was thought by amost everyone to be constant - now it has been both slowed almost to a ...

"One hypothesis for the fragmentation and evolution of the knots includes existing gas being driven out by a less dense but highly energetic stellar wind." That's why I was sending you private messages, John, because I was trying discreetly to persuade you that theories may be facts but no...

29 baseball teams and they can't beat the impoverished Cubans .. and substitute a red and white hockey puck with a maple leaf on it, and what happens to the red, white and blue? But I ain't patriotic nor a hocky fan anymore folks - this world ain't where it's at. I prefer the cubit and rod measures....

Our friend Internet seems to be right on with the salt pit - salt is not dense - Congrats, Internet -- and what looks like waves on the surface could have been made by the movement of the water. Similar markings are seen on sandy bottoms at the beach. Another thought I had after I posted (the precee...

Art you certainly have a talent for research - with less gravity at Hudson's Bay all teenage girls have to do to lose weight is to move up there.

But - with Hudson Bay's nearly circular shape, I still wonder if a huge impact occured there long, long, long ago.

Thanks William - okay - how about the CO2 spray I use in my janirotiral work to freeze chewing gum which is stuck to carpets. The chewing gum is as hard as glass, you smack the frozen chunk with a hammer and lift of the pieces. A jet of liquid CO2 from (somewhere - something) instantly freezing wate...

An education should teach the mind to think - standard measure needs deeper and higher levels of thought than metric - therefore the mind has to work harder and expand it's boundaries. A simple computer can do metric, a more complex computer is needed for standard.

Living in Canada I've often wondered if Hudson Bay was a huge impact crater.

I don't think we have to look beyond earth to see the protection a beefy atmosphere has .. not many craters here.

Up here in Canada the moon actually turns blue on certain cold, clear winter nights. It's rare but I've seen two - with blue shadows another time. Atmospheric conditions have to be just right - it's exceptionaly beautiful. The first time I saw it I thought I was having a flashback - blue snow - blue...

What profit did we get out of space exploration but Melmac and laser pointers? Look at the freedom we get from war - lots of gasoline for our vehicles to fuel our search for peaceful scenery. If space exploration were more profitable, war would take a backseat.

Why go to metric when standard exercises the mind much better?

I'd like to butt my mouth against that cookie ship and explore its composition. Great photo. Thanks.

Could the white stuff be frozen water instead of rock? Water frozen instantly into waves? Like a prehistoric mamoth instantly frozen with buttercups in its mouth?

Beyond the stars (and Galaxies of course) there is water which shall soon be detected. Genesis 1:6 - "and God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters." Reading on a few verses we see that in the firmament are sun, moon, stars ...