balgavy.com mars rift
sorry marc, but here's the caption from a picture on the front page of today's NYTimes that shows two NASA guys in 3-D glasses looking at pictures: "The images gave scientists a clearer view of a circular depression that Spirit [the Mars rover] may be sent to explore." it's a freaking impact crater!! we have those on earth and it wouldn't cost us $1 billion to investigate them. and we also don't feel the need to give them stupid names like "sleepy hollow" (so named because the scientists were sleepy when they first saw it. awww). we already spent hundereds of millions on two botched probes to Mars in the late 90s, and now we're planning on spending who knows how much more on future missions in 2005, 2007, 2009 and 2011.
t.s.o.a. is calling bullshit on this whole endeavor, especially since much of the stated goals seem to be "to study the weather and climate" of Mars. we can't even predict the weather on earth, nor do we really know much about the processes of long-term climate change. has Lyndon LaRouche finally infiltrated the government?
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hmmm. well, i am still pro-mars. only now i'm not sure if i'm pro-exploration of mars. and there is a difference. for future reference, i am anti-jupiter and completely mercury-neutral.
Posted by: marc | January 6, 2004 12:34 PM
I am so pro fried Mars Bar that I can't quite believe it myself. And I don't give a fuck who knows! What were we discussing again?
Apes, when do we get a Pete Rose diatribe? And where the hell did you find that amazing Larouche Mars thing? Did you actually read the whole thing?
Posted by: Dan | January 6, 2004 05:55 PM
i knew abotu LaRouche's views on the subject, so finding something through Google was not hard. i did not read very much of the piece, but i liked that it compared him to Mussolini.
Posted by: t.s.o.a. | January 7, 2004 02:05 PM