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| From | Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | alt.astronomy, sci.physics, sci.physics.relativity, rec.arts.sf.written |
| Subject | Re: Whatever happened to the canals of Mars? |
| Date | 2016-01-27 16:58 +1100 |
| Message-ID | <dgr4kgF55d8U1@mid.individual.net> (permalink) |
| References | <56A79D44.47B1@ix.netcom.com> <dgqt4oF3i05U1@mid.individual.net> <9NXpy.189097$L45.78671@fx09.iad> |
Cross-posted to 4 groups.
On 27/01/2016 3:34 PM, benj wrote: > On 01/26/2016 10:50 PM, Sylvia Else wrote: >> On 27/01/2016 3:22 AM, The Starmaker wrote: >>> http://www.classe.cornell.edu/~seb/celestia/plmars2.jpg >>> >> >> They were never there. A combination of optical illusions, poor >> telescopes and wishful thinking. >> >> Sylvia. > > They are still there, but the water is gone. It all boiled away due to > the Martians producing too much CO2 and creating global warming. > Greenhouse gases on Mars were growing just as on Earth but Martians > refused to change their ways (because they had no Algore or Sam Wormley > to lead them) and now the atmosphere is 95.32% CO2 and the intense > warming and storms boiled all the water away. So sad. > In the last few hundred years? Larry Niven's proposal, in his novel Rainbow Mars, of an interstellar travelling beanstalk[*] sucking up all the water, is more plausible. Sylvia. [*] I do Larry Niven a disservice here, because the novel is much better than my description suggests.
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Re: Whatever happened to the canals of Mars? wdstarr@panix.com (William December Starr) - 2016-01-30 21:56 -0500
Re: Whatever happened to the canals of Mars? Siri Cruz <chine.bleu@yahoo.com> - 2016-01-30 22:12 -0800
Re: Whatever happened to the canals of Mars? Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2016-01-27 14:50 +1100
Re: Whatever happened to the canals of Mars? benj <none@gmail.com> - 2016-01-26 23:34 -0500
Re: Whatever happened to the canals of Mars? Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2016-01-27 16:58 +1100
Re: Whatever happened to the canals of Mars? benj <none@gmail.com> - 2016-01-27 02:21 -0500
Re: Whatever happened to the canals of Mars? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2016-01-28 22:22 +0100
Re: Whatever happened to the canals of Mars? benj <none@gmail.com> - 2016-01-28 17:19 -0500
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Re: Whatever happened to the canals of Mars? Sergio <invalid@invalid.com> - 2016-01-28 22:34 -0600
Re: Whatever happened to the canals of Mars? Double-A <doublea333@gmail.com> - 2016-01-28 13:45 -0800
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