Nick,

While I can appreciate your enthusiasm, the whole issue is not really that important to me - I suppose that someone else who it is important to will do it.

You have to remember that cometary impactors will deliver water and hydrocarbons to Mars - and that includes small cometary chunks - f***, I don't even know the temperatures when these images were taken - it might be acid, it might be some hydrocarbon, but it does not look to me like an optical illusion. Take a careful look at the far right bottom of the image -

I've pointed out outflows from impacts in several regions before, and if you did not save the images or urls that is simply too bad...

Moving on, at least you did not call me anti-semetic. My challenge to Cowing still stands - I will provide him with information on the explosive bolt systme, if he will commit to publicly supporting on hatch or near hatch bail-out indicators after that information is provided.

ep