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Originally Posted by Boozlefoot
It's that time of the year here as well. As the frosts come, we regularly hear loud cracks and splashes just prior to dawn, 2am if really cold. Water in fissures of the rock bars freezes, expands, and bang! Some fragments are considerable and leg-breakers.....quite spectacular, and at first we didn't know what the score was.
Could this be further evidence of water on Mars? 
The Mos Eisley cantina entrance maybe? |
It is hard to look at those rocks and not conclude they are sedimentary and probably formed from water depositing sediment... it is hard to imagine such thin layers could result from lava.
I suppose it could come from gradual depositing of dust and formed in the place we see them.
I was listening to a geology show on the car radio and agree with the lady who offered the view that she can not imagine how people can look at a rock formation and not wonder what process was responsible for what they see.
Earlier today in trying to have a sensible discussion with a theist about The Theory of Evolution and I was met with " if elvolution is true then how come The Universe is not teeming with life?"... and that sums up the problem with humans in that they make unevidenced assumptions for no other reason than it suits them.
Given it was quiet some time before we discovered life in places we did not expect life could survive ( black smokers) and would not be found ( rocks deep within the Earth ) I think that should tell us not to assume stuff as to do so is stupid...however I suspect that there may have been surface water on Mars, and the rock in the photo suggests such to be possible...and I bet that if there was water there would be life and it is not unreasonable to expect life to be found well underground, perhaps not intelligent beings managing some form of civilization but certainly something that you would find on this planet 3 to 4 billion years ago...
I do feel a major drilling effort is needed to find out...I was learning about animals on this planet that live deep down in the rocks and unfortunately can not relate more but if one is interested a Google will give you news on the discoveries no doubt.
But isnt it hard to think there could be life more advanced than us or routinely found on the most suitable planets, of which there must be billions or trillions...or that they may have evolved billions of years before us...wouldnt it be interesting to compare our views...their body shape? Their politics, customs superstitions ( if any) and say family organisation.
I really think there should be much more effort seeking other life rather than chasing gravity waves or the like or building temples, making fictional swill to destroy the human spirit er brain.
And let's get really serious about hedging our bets with our species spread around..at least on the Moon and Mars.
We are the first species to understand extinction is the rule not the exception and have the ability to save ourselves...it's just a logical step in evolution really.
Like how many mass extinctions so far..at least five..big ones and certainly many more smaller events that saw species go...
This is so serious it calls for T shirts to be made.
Alex
