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Space/Science » in reply to re: Not confused at all

Uhhh, Barry - Exactly how radioactive is Mars?
E.P. Grondine — (archived)

Nick's model is consistent with the physical properties of water - the "watery Mars" folks models are not. So unless they have a special relationship with the Almighty, such that they can get water to behave differently on Mars than it does on Earth, they are spouting so much nonsense, much of it at taxpayer expense -

What I want to do here is to focus you on the question that everyone ducks: Exactly how radioactive is Mars? Not surprisingly, Nick is the only one to have even remotely faced up to this question, citing 2 research teams whose results are not widely known, for some strange reason....

The C14 load on Mars has to be incredible - that means that on Mars the stuff of life itself would have to be radioactive, and further that its DNA or whatever blueprint it used would either have to 1) have some compensatory mechanisms, or 2) not be carbon based, or 3) not exist.

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