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Brian Thompson is a professor of amateur science at a major imaginary university and a regular blogger at CHUD. He has been able to read and write for over seventeen years. 4 Comments
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“New Hampshire’s Old Man of the Mountain rock formation…”
::sob:: Not anymore. Having grown up in New Hampshire, I was surprisingly saddened when that fell down a few years ago. I know that it had been held together against erosion with bolts and cables for years, but now it’s just a plain old mountainside.
As cool as it would be to discover a lost ancient Martian civilization, I don’t think it’s likely. Unless, of course, they were Molemen. That would explain the lack of evidence on the planet’s surface…
You know if you look at that picture (the one you say looks like a litter box) upside down, you can totally see that it is an alien holding an apple. It’s a biblical message I’m sure of it!
I actually find the notion of disembodied entities a much more realistic possibility than the idea that the face on Mars was crafted by an advanced alien civilization. Of course, I have first hand experience with the former and none with the latter. That’s not to say that such a civilization couldn’t exist but I very much doubt that Mars would be a destination of choice considering that it’s not very hospitable to life, regardless of any water that might be hiding on its surface. There’s probably a much greater chance that an alien civilization would have visited Earth in the past. Aside from the blue sunsets, there isn’t much to appeal to a sentient being on the red planet while Earth has water, air, food, tabloid television, and hard liquor. There’s no contest.
“Comparable gravity” you said? Not hardly, unless you’re comparing it to Mercury. Martian gravity is about twice that of the moon, about a third that of earth. The only object in our solar system with comparable gravity to Earth is Venus.