tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8051630750074978974.post4612280919385238589..comments2023-12-19T09:40:12.020-08:00Comments on The Emoluments of Mars: Mike Bara, utterly delusional on Mars waterexpathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10369924104634464934noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8051630750074978974.post-36634017410907846172015-10-04T06:45:22.442-07:002015-10-04T06:45:22.442-07:00"Ivan: That was Hogaland, not Bara"
Oop..."Ivan: That was Hogaland, not Bara"<br /><br />Oops, I misread that part of the piece. <br /><br />Thanks for correcting my mistake, it's important to keep the facts straight.purpleivanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14257911989816376420noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8051630750074978974.post-24645594774723885372015-10-01T12:56:50.571-07:002015-10-01T12:56:50.571-07:00This HiRISE frame contains both RSLs and a very bi...<a href="https://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_035028_1685" rel="nofollow">This HiRISE frame</a> contains both RSLs and a very big dark slope streak. Note that the caption is definite that the dark streak is not water. It looks a lot like Hoagland's "discovery".expathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10369924104634464934noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8051630750074978974.post-74761291841888135472015-10-01T04:48:11.476-07:002015-10-01T04:48:11.476-07:00What is that completely overhyped announcement of ...What is that completely overhyped announcement of water on Mars anyway?!? Making a big deal out of something really trivial in respect to other things......highly suspect! I wouldn't be at all surprised if this blown out proportion announcement by NASA, if at all true, turns out to be just another political scam to further the Climate-gate...oooh sorry..climate change agenda. Something like...."...Mars died because of climate change...blablabla....we need to take action now...blablabla..."<br /><br />No...I wouldn't be at all surprised.<br /><br />AdrianAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8051630750074978974.post-25261061933038631092015-09-30T07:32:04.593-07:002015-09-30T07:32:04.593-07:00It occurs to me now that Lori Fenton's opinion...It occurs to me now that Lori Fenton's opinion on the dark slope streaks must apply equally to Richard Hoagland's "press release" image from July 2000. In other words, his famous "discovery" of water on Mars is probably just a dust avalanche. <br /><br />Funny.expathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10369924104634464934noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8051630750074978974.post-70087224369503707382015-09-29T16:43:01.032-07:002015-09-29T16:43:01.032-07:00Lori Fenton added a useful comment on her blog tod...Lori Fenton added a useful comment <a href="http://cosmicdiary.org/lfenton/2015/09/28/nasa-mars-acronym-fun/" rel="nofollow">on her blog</a> today. She made the same point as Stuart Robbins did -- that there's a big difference between slope streaks and RSLs. In fact, she now says of the slope streaks she published on in 1998 "They’re likely dust avalanches that might be triggered by the wind or sublimation of ice in the spring, but there’s no good evidence they’re wet."<br /><br />I liked this bit:<br />"This guy Bara couldn’t have seen RSLs 15 years ago – we didn’t have the image resolution, let alone the seasonal coverage, to see them. In addition, we didn’t have high resolution spectra to identify the presence of minerals formed by water until just now. That data simply didn’t exist."expathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10369924104634464934noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8051630750074978974.post-33548905944230919302015-09-29T16:21:49.238-07:002015-09-29T16:21:49.238-07:00I would think that Percival Lowell would have brag...I would think that Percival Lowell would have bragging rights on this one. :-)Chris Lopeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15603182786879935663noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8051630750074978974.post-9955402830880682462015-09-29T15:08:57.389-07:002015-09-29T15:08:57.389-07:00Ivan: That was Hogaland, not Bara. Thanks for the ...Ivan: That was Hogaland, not Bara. Thanks for the comment.expathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10369924104634464934noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8051630750074978974.post-73384973610835717862015-09-29T15:04:19.336-07:002015-09-29T15:04:19.336-07:00Bara "There are no craters on Mars."
Hm...Bara "There are no craters on Mars."<br /><br />Hmmm... well there are craters on earth. Highly eroded craters, but craters nevertheless.<br /><br />I guess mars must just be special in somehow being immune to impacts. Some form of alien defense shield no doubt, presumably powered by hyperdimensional physics/positive thought/wave of the hand.<br /><br />Sigh.purpleivanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14257911989816376420noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8051630750074978974.post-12558373988053114412015-09-29T12:45:46.200-07:002015-09-29T12:45:46.200-07:00"Ridley Scott: 'I knew there was water mo..."Ridley Scott: 'I knew there was water months ago'... Sign of the times (utterly delusional) that your blog is the only mention of Hoagland, and not by Bara. With friends like these....<br /><br />STERLINGAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com