Mars Burps, But Not As We Know It

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PWSlack Guru Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: In the bothy, 7 chains down the line from Dodman's Lane level crossing, in the nation formerly known as Great Britain. Kettle's on. Posts: 32175 Good Answers: 839	Mars Burps, But Not As We Know It 08/06/2009 8:44 AM
	Scientists are baffled by the mechanisms that produce and destroy methane on Mars. They don't fit the Earth-based models. Are they missing something fundamentally important? Link. __________________ "Did you get my e-mail?" - "The biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place" - George Bernard Shaw, 1856
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tcmtech Guru Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: South of Minot North Dakota Posts: 8376 Good Answers: 775	#1 Re: Mars Burps, But Not As We Know It 08/06/2009 8:05 PM
	Yep. Not being there in person! Trouble shooting over the phone is hard enough. Doing it interplanetary with expensive RC toys is likely way harder! Plus not being earth its going to have a different set of rules it runs by. Not much help but its all I got!
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Steve S. Guru Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 1790 Good Answers: 87	#2 Re: Mars Burps, But Not As We Know It 08/06/2009 8:50 PM
	Something is breathing it and converting it to H2's and C2's. The only reason the Martians have not come to earth and eaten us is that we have too much oxygen in us.
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CraziestOzzy Power-User Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Australia, sunny North Queensland Posts: 380 Good Answers: 12	#3 Re: Mars Burps, But Not As We Know It 08/06/2009 9:42 PM
	I been thinking the martians have their own cattle herds in large underground caverns. They scored these cattle from several of their anal probe missions to earth. When the smell gets unbearable underground of Mars due to thousands of flatulating cows, those little green guys open up the vents and let some fresh air in...releasing heaps of methane into the atmosphere. __________________ CraziestOzzy
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gsuhas Guru Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: 18 29 N 73 57E Posts: 1390 Good Answers: 31	#4 In reply to #3 Re: Mars Burps, But Not As We Know It 08/06/2009 11:57 PM
	Crazyiest Good to know something about Mars and the cattle farm. Are you a shepherd or the cow from the Mars?
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DVader1000 Guru Join Date: May 2007 Location: Anywhere Emperor Palpatine assigns me Posts: 2774 Good Answers: 101	#5 In reply to #3 Re: Mars Burps, But Not As We Know It 08/07/2009 1:57 AM
	Personally, I think it's because the Martians have a taste for beer, Mexican food and asparagus . __________________ If only you knew the power of the Dark Side of the Force
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PWSlack Guru Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: In the bothy, 7 chains down the line from Dodman's Lane level crossing, in the nation formerly known as Great Britain. Kettle's on. Posts: 32175 Good Answers: 839	#6 In reply to #5 Re: Mars Burps, But Not As We Know It 08/07/2009 7:36 AM
	__________________ "Did you get my e-mail?" - "The biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place" - George Bernard Shaw, 1856
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DVader1000 Guru Join Date: May 2007 Location: Anywhere Emperor Palpatine assigns me Posts: 2774 Good Answers: 101	#7 In reply to #6 Re: Mars Burps, But Not As We Know It 08/07/2009 9:41 AM
	"" Planning to set up a Mexican cantina and asparagus farm there ? __________________ If only you knew the power of the Dark Side of the Force
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Anonymous Poster	#8 Re: Mars Burps, But Not As We Know It 08/07/2009 5:39 PM
	Are they using one of those funky GW climate models? Dont work here, wont work there.
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tcmtech Guru Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: South of Minot North Dakota Posts: 8376 Good Answers: 775	#9 Re: Mars Burps, But Not As We Know It 08/07/2009 11:34 PM
	The fact they don't fit earthed based models doesn't surprise me. Earth doesn't seem to fit the supposed Earth based models either! I am not sure how the are taking these samples on mars any way. A few sensors scattered out over a planet is far to wide and sparse of data collection system any way. I see it as trying to measure a distance of a few feet with your cars odometer and not a tape measure. Its inaccuracy's and error levels exceeds the measurement itself. 3 feet +- a city block is not a valid measurement number in my book!
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