Originally posted by blue bird
*and blude bird on red planet

And my second WATS would be a SWATS which is what you do upon seeing a blue bird on Mars?

Originally posted by SuicideVirus No, sorry. That place is just too damned cold and dry to sustain any larger lifeforms.

If you say so it must be true. You are obviously an expert on extra terrestrial biology...

Perhaps you could share some papers proving you claims?

Thank you



Oh wait! My bad... you did say it was your "guess"

[edit on 28-4-2007 by zorgon]

In the picture which Spacedoubt published above (what others have called sagebrush) I have seen these patterns on earth at the Rotorua geothermal region of New Zealand and no doubt they are obvious at Yellowstone and Iceland too.

They resemble chemical diffusion patterns from some sort of liquid oozong from a vent hole. I suggest they represent liquid sulferous compounds. Fresh emerging deposits create lighter coloured riverlets.

As for the dark smudges they all display the same orientation which indicates a fairly consistent perhaps katabatic wind. I say the dark smudges are blowholes emerging under sand dunes. Dark compounds in the fumes are staining the lighter coloured sand.

The lack of sharp shaddows betrays that these so called sage bushes have little real height above the surrounding ground.

To put it in context maybe the original poster could tell us where this location is in relation to known volcanic areas on Mars ?

If you really want to find a conspiracy here, try looking INTO the agencies that intrepret the data and present it to us rather than trying to beat them at their own game.

originally posted by zeeon

Do you have any suggestions on how to do that? I personally have contacted NASA personnel via email. They did not answer any anomaly questions, and their replies were dead-end stonewalls.

We've been waiting for years for NASA or JPL to interpret dozens of the most anomalous photos of mars. We're still waiting because, when the space agency can't come up with a prosaic explanation for a feature, they simply do not comment.

How frustrating it is to have truly facsinating imagery ignored, while NASA supplies endless analysis and commentary of rock-strewn plains and other relatively mundane features.

Originally posted by blue bird
* just look at this beauty

Hey slow down will ya? I just got to page nine on recording and find two more pages

LOL

It seems to me that there are mineral deposit possibilities that could explain most of the banyan tree formations...but they are highly unlikely.

When ants burrow their nests/mounds they eventually get evacuated and left. They eventually fill up with sediment and mineral, and we can see the lightning bolt shapes.

It is understandable that under the ice (which could likely have extended into these regions) there were microflora that survived, or there was an effusion of this mineral laden black sand into microfissures in the lower levels of the ice (where salinity is high, along with pressure, making it much weaker and prone to slushing and cracking). These effusions could easily be exposed once the geology of hte local region changed, creating these banyan looking formations.

However, i believe they are some sort of life. Plant/animal? Who the hell knows. Mars is iron rich (and, thus i believe its "destruction" was caused by the electromagnetic traits of this outer shell of oxidized iron). I think these "trees" appear to have life in the form we see on earth. Does it have to metabolise chemical the same way? Heck no! Why would it? We have microbes here that metabolize methane, silica, hydrocarbons. Life is opportunistic and will make due with whatever materials it needs to thrive.

I would caution people to really, really think outside the box when looking for life on other bodies (and in general). People get buried in boxes...its isn't a good place to be.

Now, on a second thought....i wonder if the "iron rich" outer surface of mars might not be normal? What would happen to our planet should all our buildings be left to decay? Would it not eventually create large areas where the completely decayed and decimated iron structures would have broken down and spread across? have you seen the tornados on mars? The dust storms? It is easy to think that the surface has been scoured time and again, removing any surface features of civilization. When i lived in El Paso, i saw sandstorms that stripped the paint off of vehicles in 10 minutes. Think about it.

Mars is a crippled planet. I hvae a theory that it is repairing itself from the last calamity. It will rise again. maybe not to what it once was...but it will rise again.

Originally posted by bigfatfurrytexan When i lived in El Paso, i saw sandstorms that stripped the paint off of vehicles in 10 minutes. Think about it.

Well Mars Dust Devils are more gentle... They keep the dust off of the Rovers so they can keep going but don't rip off their delicate parts nor strip their paint. I would suspect that the lesser density of the air on Mars would pack less punch than it would on Earth