Gary you are not only ignorant you are extremely unprofessional. You know nothing about me, so keep your ignorance to yourself. Can you speak japanese?? try this: you are a 'yana yastu '- from now on thats your nickname on this bbs until you can tell us what it means! I noticed that gutless 'yanu yatsu' like you never put their email!

Ok 'yanu yastu' (gary) lets test out 1) your educational level - did you ever graduate??? Prove it. I can.
2) your knowledge of basic geology since you profess to know everything:

My educational level: Bachelor of Applied Science Applied geology, Master of Science, MBA, CDC. Nick can confirm those statements.

Since you are so clever: prove that the material ejected from fans (if you know what they are??) has absolutely NO rock or minerals present and is all cryptic CO2.....and while your at it show a mechanism as to how joints and bedding planes (if yu know what they are) can open to allow fluids and gases to escape without eroding the rock? This is high school geography - can you pass at that level? 20 seconds...oh... you failed first attempt.

There are three, no four, ways joints can open - I doubt you can name even one (and one does exist) that does not involve eroding the joint and depositing the minerals at the surface - be bold, be agresssive...but answer the question and be professional....oh I doubt you can do that.....

I may not know as much as others about Mars but - I never said I did - (but you did) BUT... on the topic of geology I know much more than you will ever know. It is you who is out of your league. And everyone on the bbs knows it. You simply mouth off and agree with everything Nick and Alex say because you are not capable to think for yourself (by the way....they often say things that are wrong deliberately just to see your comments.....I am sure they laugh at you------all the rest of us do!!).

No don't bother with diplomacy 101 - you would flunk the entrance exam. If you wrote everything about the very little you knoww on the back of a postage stamp there would still be room to write your name and address......if you were intelligent enough to know it! yanu yatsu!