Way cool. Life?

re: #1 Gang of One

we have to find intelligent life in congress before we start looking on mars...

There may be no other scientists I respect than Phil..I've been reading badastronomy.com for like forever...You lizards should show up every day to see and read about amazing science..He has also been a leading voice of sanity and science on the Anti-Vaxx movement...
OK once a month Charles has a Phil link.. I get a tinkle up my leg!
LOL
Thanks C

Very cool photograph. Reminds me of snowballs rolling down a virgin snow slope.

Embiggen, eh? OK Jebediah Springfield!

We need another planet to plunder after this one is destroyed by global warming.

Liquid water? Isn't that a bit redundant??

hehe. That's very cool.

re: #6 cliffster

Liquid water? Isn't that a bit redundant??

water can be found in three states...

(alaska, oregon and michigan)

re: #5 Alouette

We need another planet to plunder after this one is destroyed by global warming.

Avatar!
(BTW..Any time you plunder a planet of 10 foot tall Aliens with Tails..Just send NBA scouts and Nike to sign the stars and offer HI-DEF NBA Channel for free...)

re: #7 wozzablog

water can be found in three states...

(alaska, oregon and michigan)

Jersey used to have water, but someone turned it into whine.

re: #6 cliffster

Liquid water? Isn't that a bit redundant??

hehe. That's very cool.

No. Water can be solid (ice) or gas (steam)

What are the black things all lined up in rows at the top?

re: #11 middy

What are the black things all lined up in rows at the top?

I think those are some kind of depressions or wind formations, and the dark is shadow.

Oh please, those are totally not from water run-off, they are obviously the tracks of juvenile sandworms who are just having fun by "sledding" downhill on that slope.

/Do I need to buy you a new pair of glasses or something? :p

Next step, get a man up there to check it out.

re: #13 ausador

Oh please, those are totally not from water run-off, they are obviously the tracks of juvenile sandworms who are just having fun by "sledding" downhill on that slope.

/Do I need to buy you a new pair of glasses or something? :p

Tell me of your homeworld Usul.

re: #10 Alouette

No. Water can be solid (ice) or gas (steam)

Thanks for the Chemistry lesson. However, according to my learnin' when I was a youngster, H20 has three phases.. ice, water, and water vapor. Of course, this is just being a semantics jackass, so forget all that.

re: #14 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

after that, chicks with 3 breasts will surely follow.

re: #5 Alouette

We need another planet to plunder after this one is destroyed by global warming.

Now I agree that all the shit humans are pumping into the atmosphere is probably changing the climate. I'm not an AGW guy, science is science. But, I'm gonna have to take Carlin's stance on this one, "There's nothing wrong with the planet. The Planet is fine, the people are fucked!"

re: #15 Locker

Look out! Stone burner!

re: #17 Dreggas

after that, chicks with 3 breasts will surely follow.

Dammit Cohagen, give the people some air!

re: #7 wozzablog

water can be found in three states...

(alaska, oregon and michigan)

You made me laugh out loud. Thanks for throwing a little chuckling into my Monday.

Redrain red rain.

re: #20 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

Dammit Cohagen, give the people some air!

Laugh I was just doing a Quato joke in the last thread.

Vilos Cohaagen: My friend, in five minutes, you won't give a shit about the people. Fire it up, Doc!

re: #16 cliffster

Thanks for the Chemistry lesson. However, according to my learnin' when I was a youngster, H20 has three phases.. ice, water, and water vapor. Of course, this is just being a semantics jackass, so forget all that.

Actually in the Nuclear World there is what is called super saturated steam...It is a state of steam under intense pressure..This is what you drive turbines with..Also this state of steam is completely invisible..You can't see it at all...

I've "Embiggened" the photo and studied it at length and carefully.
My official opinion of this phenomenon is that these
are the tracks of wild,inbred Unicorns!
..Must add that the five upper left tracks are those of
..Antelope...herding the Unicorns to a cliff where they will fall
to their death to be consumed by the Carnivorous Antelope!
...Just look at !It's as plan as the point on my single spiral horn!!
/

re: #24 HoosierHoops

Actually in the Nuclear World there is what is called super saturated steam...It is a state of steam under intense pressure..This is what you drive turbines with..Also this state of steam is completely invisible..You can't see it at all...

Oh, sure, it's "invisible." Just like "quarks" and "UV radiation."

Sure, Hoops, sure. How's that Bridge in Brooklyn?

//

Ain't nuthin' but dung beetles rolling their booty downhill.

re: #24 HoosierHoops

..Also this state of steam is completely invisible..You can't see it at all...

Totally and completly invisible!
Under high pressure can cut steel like a razor...almost!

re: #26 EmmmieG

Oh, sure, it's "invisible." Just like "quarks" and "UV radiation."

Sure, Hoops, sure. How's that Bridge in Brooklyn?

//

LOL
Hope today finds you well...
In an engine room one of the most feared and deadly things is a high pressured steam leak..It is deadly..and invisible..
Of course on a sub fire is really bad..And water..Taking on water on a boat is never a good thing..Scramming a reactor is never good..Once a reactor shuts down you are pretty much in big trouble for hours.. In DryDock it took us about 4 hours to refire the reactor.. I imagine in a war zone with a torpedo coming at you it would be much shorter period of time.. But you are still f*cked.
/

re: #29 HoosierHoops

LOL
Hope today finds you well...
In an engine room one of the most feared and deadly things is a high pressured steam leak..It is deadly..and invisible..
Of course on a sub fire is really bad..And water..Taking on water on a boat is never a good thing..Scramming a reactor is never good..Once a reactor shuts down you are pretty much in big trouble for hours.. In DryDock it took us about 4 hours to refire the reactor.. I imagine in a war zone with a torpedo coming at you it would be much shorter period of time.. But you are still f*cked.
/

Yeah, but you can kick back with your shoes off and listen to an iPod while you do it.

re: #29 HoosierHoops

LOL
Hope today finds you well...
In an engine room one of the most feared and deadly things is a high pressured steam leak..It is deadly..and invisible..
Of course on a sub fire is really bad..And water..Taking on water on a boat is never a good thing..Scramming a reactor is never good..Once a reactor shuts down you are pretty much in big trouble for hours.. In DryDock it took us about 4 hours to refire the reactor.. I imagine in a war zone with a torpedo coming at you it would be much shorter period of time.. But you are still f*cked.
/

I deeply regret that my great-grandfather wrote nothing down about his time on a sub in WWI.

The spaghettini splattered on the wall.

re: #30 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

Yeah, but you can kick back with your shoes off and listen to an iPod while you do it.

This isn't common knowledge but when we build the CVN 65 Enterprise It had 4 Nuclear reactors on it.. After a while the Navy shut down 2 of them..Just too much power..It could twist the screws off of any ship.. So it uses just 2 reactors...

re: #31 EmmmieG

I would imagine being on a WWI Sub during battle or not
all his letters may have started like..."What He() was I thinking climbing into this thing"!
We've come a very long way!
He was a BRAVE MAN!!

re: #33 HoosierHoops
...The Tim "the tool man"Taylor problem eh?
Arrugh!!

re: #34 reloadingisnotahobby

I would imagine being on a WWI Sub during battle or not
all his letters may have started like..."What He() was I thinking climbing into this thing"!
We've come a very long way!
He was a BRAVE MAN!!

America's Silent Service are all brave sailors.. I am very proud of them..
America has so many hero's it seems sometimes we forget or lose count of the sacrifices they paid for our freedoms

I'm pretty sure I could listen to slide guitar every day and night for the rest of my life and be ok. As long as it's a good guitar plucker. Or slider, as it were.

re: #6 cliffster

Liquid water? Isn't that a bit redundant??

hehe. That's very cool.

Water??
One less thing to pack along!
More room for 12 year old Scotch on the Mars rover!!
Woo Hoo!!!

re: #35 reloadingisnotahobby

...The Tim "the tool man"Taylor problem eh?
Arrugh!!

The idea was on target back then..We are going to have the most bad ass Air Craft Carrier in the world and carry the name Enterprise...
You din't need 4 reactors..2 worked just fine...And Westinghouse is really developing advanced designs these days

re: #26 EmmmieG

Oh, sure, it's "invisible." Just like "quarks" and "UV radiation."

Sure, Hoops, sure. How's that Bridge in Brooklyn?

//

There is no such thing as UV radiation, that warmth you feel when the sun shines on you is an illusion God gives you to show his love. Also both of those mythical UV-A and UV-B rays from the sun cause neither tanning nor skin cancer, tanning occurs when you lay out in Gods gift of sunshine and he gives you a "golden glow" as a reward for your faith. Skin cancer happens when God is punishing you for not perfectly living within his "10" commandments...

God gave us free will, yet he still punishes us for our bad choices while still in this life? Ever want to hear a "Christian" tie him/herself into knots trying to make sense of or justify their beliefs ask them about that one.

/I'm sick of being made out to be an idiot simply because I am a Christian. I can't help what these idiots believe...

I cannot wait for the Maddow special on the McVeigh tapes. The anticipation is killing me.

re: #3 HoosierHoops

If it is a "tinkle" then wouldn't it be going down your leg?

/

re: #23 Locker

Laugh I was just doing a Quato joke in the last thread.

Vilos Cohaagen: My friend, in five minutes, you won't give a shit about the people. Fire it up, Doc!

SEE YOU AT THE PAHHTY RICHTAH!

re: #5 Alouette

We need another planet to plunder after this one is destroyed by global warming.

And fortunately, no oil or coal on Mars, so if we're going to exploit it, it's probably gonna be with technology that will require a subscription through something owned by Steve Jobs, who will still be getting wheeled out at Apple pep rallies as a disembodied head in a tank.

re: #41 RogueOne

I cannot wait for the Maddow special on the McVeigh tapes. The anticipation is killing me.

McVeigh tapes?

showing evidence for the presence of liquid water on Mars.

And this is when Biden responded with, "This is a really big fucking deal" and Sarah Palin's rolled back in her empty head.
//

Or something like that.

I watched a great show on National Geographic today that speculates about our bringing life to Mars. I highly recommend it.

[Link: channel.nationalgeographic.com...]

re: #44 steve_davis

And fortunately, no oil or coal on Mars, so if we're going to exploit it, it's probably gonna be with technology that will require a subscription through something owned by Steve Jobs, who will still be getting wheeled out at Apple pep rallies as a disembodied head in a tank.

You mean like this?

Wow, them snowboarders get everywhere!

And yet President Obama has pretty much killed our manned space launch capability. The US is going to be remembered as the Portugal of the space age . . . we got there first, then went "meh", came home and left the good stuff to everyone else.