The NASA rover Curiosity has beamed back pictures of bedrock that suggest a fast-moving stream, possibly waist-deep, once flowed on Mars …. There have been previous signs that water existed on the red planet long ago, but the images released Thursday showing pebbles rounded off, likely by water, offered the most convincing evidence so far of an ancient streambed.
~ ROLLOVER for enhanced version showing clearer evidence ~
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After the rollover, I was really convinced.
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This is proof that the Martians died off because they did not care for their environment. Probably was a nice place once, until the Martian globe warmed due to massive carbon emissions.
The proof is the obviously stainless steel barbed hook. Kind, caring fishermen use non-barbed rustable hooks.
Martians found out mice were better–there were mice there –right?
Hey did I see a fi—Squirrel!! — oh I guess I didn’t.
Fishing was good, until all the water dried up. Oh well, there’s still plenty of beer.
logdog (3)
Why … why that’s inhuuuuman!
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Reckon this is evidence that Martians actually have visited Earth, too?
logdog: That may be funny, but I can see a not to distant future in which the children are brainwashed by the government into believing that both Venus and Mars are “the results of intelligent beings like humans ignoring the dangers of global warming”
^ Actually,
that’s how the whole Global Warming thing got started.
Venus went all run-away greenhousy due to the high CO2 content of its atmosphere and being a dang-sight closer to the Sun than we are. Welllll, you can imagine how that got things rolling for AGW. The fact that there’s no water cycle on Venus (which helps prevent any run-away greenhouse effect on Earth) didn’t seem to matter to the
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I see a teddy bear, laying there, in about the middle-lower left
But maybe that’s just me.
My guess? Use dry flys on Mars……
A hook but no line and sinker?
I’m not sure I’m gonna bite.
“streaming”
I see what you did there!
mech,
Would a lock, stock, and barrel have worked?
Doug,
Depends on What’s in the barrel.
Could be some spirits to raise?
I gotta ask… WHO are these “experts” and just how do they know the water was “waist-deep?” Can they REALLY tell the difference between “knee-deep” and “tit-deep?”
R-E-A-L-L-Y???
#17 …and do these “experts” spend any outdoors, at all, much less in waist-deep streams in order to have clue about what those river rocks look like? I think that the pic is proof that they “read about it.”
Nice propellers on their beanies, however.
Can someone say “wind”? I don’t get this push to travel to Mars. A big cold waistland?