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[snort!]
Is that a 'White Mars' joke?
pb
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6/27/2008 5:28:57 AM
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Martian soil is dry, mildly salty, and...
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alcaray
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6/26/2008 11:13:06 PM
The pH level is between 8 and 9; very alkaline martian soil.
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Jacob
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6/27/2008 1:25:56 PM
Instead of the adjective, "very", the adjective, "evidently", wiould do better.
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Jacob
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6/27/2008 4:50:31 PM
Mmmm... Aparagus...
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Nick Hoffman
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6/27/2008 3:09:59 AM
re: Mmmm... Aparagus...
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pb
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6/27/2008 5:55:28 AM
"Damn frustrating that we could not send six Phoenix landers in stead of one."
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Buck Galaxy
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6/29/2008 10:10:36 PM
Solar panels work fine, in the summer
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Nick Hoffman
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6/30/2008 12:47:18 AM
Oxidizers
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dtb
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6/27/2008 1:40:11 AM
Don't know but there may be big differences between polar locations and equatorial ones (where the Vikings went).
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alcaray
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6/27/2008 3:20:33 AM
Martian Asparagus
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Buck Galaxy
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6/27/2008 12:29:12 AM
Asparagus?...I think green beans would do better...It would also explain the martian methane detection. ;-)
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Jacob
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6/27/2008 1:48:02 PM
Martha Stewart s..."LIVING" on MARS
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carl
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6/27/2008 3:35:18 PM
Are you starting a collection to get her there?
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nick hoffman
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6/28/2008 9:55:34 AM
It's a GOOD thing!
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ER
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6/27/2008 4:55:58 PM
LOL!!!
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Jacob
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6/27/2008 4:14:40 PM
Now we know what the Spiders eat
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pb
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6/27/2008 3:22:15 AM
Think of how tall it could grow. And magic beans, maybe.
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Bowser
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6/27/2008 2:29:09 AM
Asparagus from MARS!!!!
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pb
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6/27/2008 1:45:59 AM
[snort!]
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Robert
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6/27/2008 4:39:54 AM
Is that a 'White Mars' joke?
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pb
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6/27/2008 5:28:57 AM
[groan]
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Robert
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6/27/2008 2:36:59 PM
Why so grumpy lately?
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pb
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6/27/2008 6:25:49 PM
No no no, I'm Sneezy
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Robert
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6/27/2008 7:19:11 PM
Dwarfed by comparison
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pb
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6/28/2008 2:16:36 AM
'sept you left out a few....
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Bashful
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6/28/2008 6:16:47 PM
lol
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Buck Galaxy
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6/27/2008 4:25:12 AM
A question.
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Bowser
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6/26/2008 11:36:31 PM
Mars DOES have geological processes...
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Nick Hoffman
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6/27/2008 2:08:15 AM
The first high-temp TEGA results indicate trace hydrated minerals present.
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Jacob
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6/27/2008 1:51:26 PM
So why did they say the Viking results were like hydrogen peroxide?
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Socrates II
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6/27/2008 4:16:56 AM
Alkaline reaction could be trace of superoxide in this lithosol
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bruced
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6/29/2008 7:41:08 AM
regolith is the generally accepted term for 'soils"on a planet/moon
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Nick Hoffman
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6/30/2008 12:48:48 AM
Super Oxidisers or otherwise...
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Adam Crowl
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6/27/2008 10:36:21 PM
HabitableZone — be civil, or at least entertaining.