Thank's for the critique. I've now read some of the papers to which you refer.

The pertinent point of our paper was not to suggest a water origin, believe it or not Richard Hougland was the first to do that, at least for a high resolution MOC image, in July of 2000.

The purpose of the paper was to find evidence supporting or rejecting a water formation conjecture.

The only evidence we found, which is THE central point of our paper is:

1. Efrain plotted the positions of Stain images and discovered there is a distinct distribution pattern where "stains/flows" occur only near the equator AND that they are bimodally distributed on Tharsis and 180 degrees away from Tharsis.

2. I wrote some software specifically to find overlapping images so that I could demonstrate if flows occur in a relatively short time frame. This was successful and I proved that flow features are currently forming geological features on Mars.

None of the papers mentioned talks about these two main points/discoveries of our paper.

The research generated many questions including;

1. What is the flow-feature formation rate in different areas of Mars?
2. If there is a flow-feature creation rate there must be a corresponding flow-feature fade rate. Is this flow-feature fade rate a global or regional constant?
3. What causes the distribution of the flow features in the equatorial regions? Is it actually related to warmer temperatures and more direct sunlight?
4. What causes the bi-modal distribution of flow-features. Is it a result of past vulcanism in the Tharsis area?

5. And the big question is still "Are these "stains" a function of or influenced by liquid water currently existing on Mars." This is the original question asked by RCH and I certainly do not feel it has been proven or disproven by our paper. Again our paper really just covered the two major points above.

I understand that RCH is person non grate on this message system. Despite what you may feel about him here I do find his papers and conjectures encourage me to do my own independent research as do Mr. Blackwell's comments and suggestions.

You will find a quite through collection of references listed in the back of our paper. My apologies to any whom we may have slighted by not finding or referencing their research.

Thank you everyone.