> From: SimonC@denplan.co.uk (Simon Campbell-Smith)
It was the Daily Mail I think. I had a quick skim through the article, It
looks like a guy called
Hoagland (sp?) is trying to push a book on the subject - wasn't he
the one trying to convince people that there was a glass city on the moon a
few years back?
All in all, I'm a bit sceptical about the whole thing - I suspect it
will turn out to be some unusual (but natural) geography and a trick of the
light. I'm certainly not about to buy a book based on a few dodgy images from
the '70s when we'll have much better info in a year or so, when global
surveyor and pathfinder get there.
Then again, the last 2 probes to Mars didn't make it.....
> Date: Fri, 23 Aug 1996 12:13:22 +0100 (BST)
> Then again, the last 2 probes to Mars didn't make it.....
Probably all due to alien interference. I'm sure someones probably written a
book on that too.
It will be interesting to find out if that meteoite was carrying martian or
earth bacteria.
> Then again, the last 2 probes to Mars didn't make it.....
I remember Patrick Moore a couple of years ago pointing out an uncanny
resemblance between some moonor other (one of Saturn's? Jupiter's?) and the
Death Star.
Then again, having recently played the Star Wars Drinking Game
(Aw, mah heid...!), a couple of unarmed non-maneuvring probes might
prove a bit tough for the Imperials...
Rob
> Then again, the last 2 probes to Mars didn't make it.....
Maybe a stray Kra'Vak railgun round...or the Vorlons, who knows... ;-)
Mk
> Robin Paul writes:
@:) I remember Patrick Moore a couple of years ago pointing @:) out an uncanny
resemblance between some moonor other (one of @:) Saturn's? Jupiter's?) and
the Death Star.
That would be Mimas, a moon of Saturn. Generally referred to by
non-astronomers as the "Death Star Moon". NASA's site (www.nasa.gov)
has links to some good pictures of it (I think they're actually at the
smithsonian) but they're UPSIDE DOWN!!! That's what you get when you give
astronomical pictures to people who don't truly understand space science. The
big dish obviously goes at the top!
> Then again, the last 2 probes to Mars didn't make it.....
;-)
> Mk
Jupiter's?)
> and the Death Star.
That's Mimas, one of the inner moons of Saturn (it has a diameter of ~400km,
and the impact crater which resembles the DSMG (DeathStar Main Gun) is about
135km across.
Pretty impressive looking image.
Mk
In a message dated 96-08-23 07:46:10 EDT, you write:
<< Probably all due to alien interference. I'm sure someones probably written
a book on that too.
It will be interesting to find out if that meteoite was carrying martian or
earth bacteria. >>
Actually neither, only some chemical components that are very strongly
associated with biological processes and some formations within the rock that
strongly resemble terrestrial microbial fossils.
None of which would be near as exciting without recent breakthroughs in the
study of extremophilic bacteria here on Earth, especially the discovery of
complete communities of bacteria 1000m below the planets surface (see J.
Barros et.al.)
Later
Brian
> @:) I remember Patrick Moore a couple of years ago pointing
Eh, what's a little upside down in space, anyway?
> That's what you get when you
It is; just that the instrument which imaged Mimas was turned
180-degrees.
;-)
Mk