Re: Scientists Propose New Theories on Planet Formation, etc
Cliff Lundberg (cliff@noe.com)
Thu, 09 Dec 1999 23:37:48 -0800>http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/19991207/sc/mars_future_1.html
>Yahoo! Tuesday December 7 ... More Mars Missions Scheduled
>Despite Latest Loss... (Reuters) - Ever since an Italian astronomer
>saw "canals" on Mars, humans have looked to the Red Planet for
>clues of life in outer space, and even the loss of NASA's Mars Polar
>Lander will not stop that quest... "The excitement about Mars is
>pretty much just focused on the question of whether there is any life
>or fossil life on Mars," ...Even a discouraged-sounding Richard Zurek,
>a project scientist on the Mars Polar Lander, did not suggest stopping
>the search for signs of liquid water -- a prerequisite for life -- on Mars...
>The unsolved mystery is where the water went, and whether any life
>formed before the water departed... (186/829)
Stephen E. Jones wrote:
>[This shows that the real objective behind NASA's attempts to land
>more probes on Mars is exobiological. And underlying that is the
>materialistic-naturalistic assumption that life is just a chemical
>reaction which will inevitably occur, when all the conditions,
>e.g. water, are present]
What is the mystery about the water? Over time Mars' rotation slowed,
it lost its internal dynamism and volcanic outgassing, the atmosphere
mostly dissipated into space, and with it, most of the water.
--Cliff Lundberg ~ San Francisco ~ cliff@noe.com