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PostPosted: Thu Jan 15, 2009 2:59 pm    Post subject: Mars Methane Reply with quote

Breaking News: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2009/01/15/live-blogging-the-mars-methane-mystery-aliens-at-last/
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 15, 2009 5:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16429-martian-methane-traced-to-three-hotspots.html



Wonder if Sir Fartsalot has visited Mars lately... Hmmm...
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 15, 2009 6:27 pm    Post subject: Re: Mars Methane Reply with quote

Sir Hamster of Elderberry wrote:
Breaking News...
... or Breaking Wind? Do we know of any organisms that could produce 19,000 tonnes of methane in one event??? Rolling Eyes
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 15, 2009 6:48 pm    Post subject: Re: Mars Methane Reply with quote

Sir Furry Mark wrote:
Sir Hamster of Elderberry wrote:
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... or Breaking Wind? Do we know of any organisms that could produce 19,000 tonnes of methane in one event??? Rolling Eyes


I think that "Perhaps We Do" #Onfire
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 16, 2009 6:30 am    Post subject: Re: Mars Methane Reply with quote

Sir Furry Mark wrote:
Sir Hamster of Elderberry wrote:
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... or Breaking Wind? Do we know of any organisms that could produce 19,000 tonnes of methane in one event??? Rolling Eyes


Do We Know one? The fortress is powered by one!
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 19, 2009 12:09 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote



Explanation: Why is there methane on Mars? No one is sure. An important confirmation that methane exists in the atmosphere of Mars occurred last week, bolstering previous controversial claims made as early as 2003. The confirmation was made spectroscopically using large ground-based telescopes by finding precise colors absorbed on Mars that match those absorbed by methane on Earth. Given that methane is destroyed in the open martian air in a matter of years, the present existence of the fragile gas indicates that it is currently being released, somehow, from the surface of Mars. One prospect is that microbes living underground are creating it, or created in the past. If true, this opens the exciting possibility that life might be present under the surface of Mars even today. Given the present data, however, it is also possible that a purely geologic process, potentially involving volcanism or rust and not involving any life forms, is the methane creator. Pictured above is an image of Mars superposed with a map of the recent methane detection.
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 20, 2009 7:32 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

That picture looks like a butt print...

I think that I know the cause. Sir Farty hasn't been seen around here in a while....
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 20, 2009 9:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

That explains it, then! Sir Fart has stolen a copy of Hitchhikers Guide and moved to Mars!
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 07, 2009 1:52 am    Post subject: Re: Mars Methane Reply with quote

Sir Furry Mark wrote:
Sir Hamster of Elderberry wrote:
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... or Breaking Wind? Do we know of any organisms that could produce 19,000 tonnes of methane in one event??? Rolling Eyes


Event ? Well, isn't that a delicate way to put it Confused . I pride myself more on how much thrust I produce Cool .
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