 sj |
||
|
||
BS: Ruins on Mars???
|
|
|
Subject: Ruins on Mars??? From: Little Hawk Date: 23 Mar 02 - 12:20 PM I'd like to hear what any of you know (or think you know) about this. I've heard a few things, but have no final opinion on the matter...just a sort of general feeling that there's probably something to it. I know that some people categorically reject anything of this sort (Wolfgang?) while others go for it like bears for honey...depending on their basic psychological makeup...and that's okay with me...whichever way you like it. So...anyone got info pro or con about Martian ruins, evidence of same, etc? - LH
|
|
Subject: RE: BS: Ruins on Mars??? From: Fibula Mattock Date: 23 Mar 02 - 12:34 PM They were probably built by the same lot that did Stonehenge. Elvis lives there too. And if you multiply the number of pyramids by pi and divide by the circumference of the Sphinx you'll end up with a number that's pretty close to the date of the foundation of the Knights Templar...
Sorry LH, just getting in before Wolfgang does, if I can type fast enough.
A Google search on "ruins" and "mars" brings up at least 25700 pages... |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Ruins on Mars??? From: katlaughing Date: 23 Mar 02 - 12:39 PM nasa mars news |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Ruins on Mars??? From: Jerry Rasmussen Date: 23 Mar 02 - 12:45 PM I don't know about Mars, but it looks like the face of a man on the moon. Jerry |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Ruins on Mars??? From: Clinton Hammond Date: 23 Mar 02 - 12:50 PM There's NO face on Mars! |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Ruins on Mars??? From: Celtic Soul Date: 23 Mar 02 - 12:54 PM Here's what NASA has to say: Go to: http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/planetaryfaq.html#marsgen-face There are a blue zillion sites out there, most of which are pro-intelligent design/consiracy theory in nature. Do a dogpile search (www.dogpile.com) using "mars face", "mars pyramids", "mars anomolies", "mars enigmas", or the like. You'll get more hits than a hippy at Woodstock. |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Ruins on Mars??? From: CarolC Date: 23 Mar 02 - 12:54 PM But, Fibula, but... if there were ruins on Mars (and I have absolutely no opinions or ideas on the matter one way or the other), wouldn't you just love to be a part of the archaelogical team that goes there to check it out? |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Ruins on Mars??? From: Fibula Mattock Date: 23 Mar 02 - 12:56 PM You betcha! I would happily eat my words then...! |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Ruins on Mars??? From: Little Hawk Date: 23 Mar 02 - 01:33 PM Yeah, I know there are a million sites out there about it, but I enjoy talking to people here about things cos I consider you people to be my friends, so why not start a thread about it? I always find it fascinating with what absolute zeal people will instinctively take up one side or the other on these matters...and the real mystery in every case is...why? Fibula - The Stonehenge link sounds just plausible...but I can't countenance the Elvis one at all! :-) I was never into Elvis bigtime anyway. - LH |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Ruins on Mars??? From: InOBU Date: 23 Mar 02 - 01:43 PM Ask Janet... see the last post on are you ashamed to be American. Cheers brother, Larry |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Ruins on Mars??? From: GUEST,Fortunato Date: 23 Mar 02 - 01:47 PM My all time favorite Weekly World News Cover: STATUE OF ELVIS FOUND ON MARS: SCIENTISTS ALL SHOOK UP! |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Ruins on Mars??? From: Lanfranc Date: 23 Mar 02 - 01:48 PM If there are ruins on Mars, will Jet and Lemmy be able to get away before Whittaker catches up with them? What happened to the sheep in the Argyre Desert? (Questions for radio-listening Brits of a certain age!)
|
|
Subject: RE: BS: Ruins on Mars??? From: Amos Date: 23 Mar 02 - 01:49 PM Well, that's where Elvis beats Shatner, man -- you don't have to be "into" the King to be influenced by his Infinite power. Whereas unless you're Canadian you're probably totally outside the tiny little field of power influenced by Shatner. I mean you never heard an answering machine message saying "William Shatner has lkeft the building", now didja? See??? LOL. As to Mars, I believe there is a great deal we leave out of our models of the cosmos and I would love to learn that someone had distinctly identified artifacts of any kind on Mars; it would completely revolutionizer our beliefs about our history, for one thing. But until there is some hard evidence, I'm afraid Fibula is right -- the desperate search for Patterns with Higher Meaning, the favorite indoor hobby of those uncomfortable with their present lives and fleeing from more immediate hard questions, will answer up to anything leading to higher powers, more ancient beginnings, cosmic interactions, or anything else that will provide a distraction from cleaning up the old living room!! A |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Ruins on Mars??? From: The Pooka Date: 23 Mar 02 - 01:52 PM Little Hawk - because "We *Want* To Believe". Or Disbelieve, as the case may be. Me, I say the Martian ruins are the origination points of the allpowerful Cosmic Strings which I recently tried to Thread on here, with little success. The big question is, who's Pulling them Strings? I claim it's Clinton & Wolfgang. :) |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Ruins on Mars??? From: The Pooka Date: 23 Mar 02 - 01:53 PM Oh yeah, I forgot: and Amos. :) |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Ruins on Mars??? From: Little Hawk Date: 23 Mar 02 - 06:04 PM Amos - Aw, geez... "the desperate search for Patterns with Higher Meaning, the favorite indoor hobby of those uncomfortable with their present lives and fleeing from more immediate hard questions, will answer up to anything leading to higher powers, more ancient beginnings, cosmic interactions, or anything else that will provide a distraction from cleaning up the old living room!!" That's hitting pretty close to home, Amos! I've got this end of the year inventory sheet to do for the company tax return...and a whole whack of expense receipts to search through for my medical expenses...and I would much rather put it off and look for Patterns of Higher Meaning! (Argh! Whine! Snivel! &%*%**!!!) Here I am, wracking my brains trying to find a way to procrastinate and you have the gall to...to... You are Soooo heartless! Phooey! And those unconscionable remarks about William Shatner! They never announce HIM leaving a building because they're afraid it will start a riot or cause a stampede for the exits. Elvis is dead, but Shatner Lives! What more can I say? The Pooka - You're absolutely right! It's because they WANT TO BELIEVE!!! I, for one, want to believe that there is life all over the Universe, not just here, and I'm always delighted to hear of anything suggesting it is so... - LH |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Ruins on Mars??? From: Clinton Hammond Date: 23 Mar 02 - 06:47 PM "Elvis is dead, but Shatner Lives!" Ya... and more's the pity... |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Ruins on Mars??? From: Little Hawk Date: 23 Mar 02 - 07:17 PM Oh! The humanity... I just gotta say there are some pretty barbarous attitudes out there. People who criticize la Shatner simply cannot be trusted! They are beyond the pale! I'm glad this lazy but paranoid dachshund is here to sound the alarm and serve as a useful distraction when they come beating down the doors, whilst I load up the old blunderbuss, activate the hidden laser barrage, and...RELEASE THE HAMSTER!!! - LH |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Ruins on Mars??? From: Clinton Hammond Date: 23 Mar 02 - 07:20 PM You either gotta cut the dose, or double it, LH... :-) |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Ruins on Mars??? From: Bev and Jerry Date: 23 Mar 02 - 07:28 PM Before becoming full time folk musicians, one of us worked for NASA on the Viking project which was the first (and second) successful landing of a spacecraft on the planet Mars. We changed careers for the money!
With all the BS we hear about ancient civilizations on Mars, two points are always overlooked.
First, the Viking project involved literally thousands of individuals (most of whom worked for one of dozens of contractors) from top scientists to grunt labor. Keeping anything a secret would have been totally impossible. News of every event that occurred spread like wild fire throughout the project.
Second, why would NASA keep it a secret? If any sign of life, past or present, no matter how insignificant were to be discovered, NASA would broadcast it to the world as loudly as possible since this would increasd their funding immensely.
During the first few days after the first landing, one of the life detection (chemistry) experiments began to show positive results. In spite of efforts to keep this quiet for even a few days until further analysis could confirm the results (which it didn't) the media was claiming that life was discovered on Mars. Bev and Jerry |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Ruins on Mars??? From: Bill D Date: 23 Mar 02 - 07:28 PM I'd give a buck or two towards having Shatner bronzed and SENDING him to Mars for future archeologists to puzzle over... ;>) |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Ruins on Mars??? From: Little Hawk Date: 23 Mar 02 - 07:39 PM That is a VERY cool idea, Bill, but we'll have to persuade his family to agree to it first. Given his space credentials, I think they just might... Bev and Jerry - Well, that sounds reasonably convincing to me. I remember the brouhaha in the press that you are referring to, and you are right that it would help NASA with funding all right, if they announced major new discoveries on the Red Planet. Thanks for the contribution. I had feared that this discussion would veer off into nothing but humorous asides on William Shatner. :-) The interesting thing about "life" is...spiritual philosophy as I know it maintains that everything is alive (though not in a biological sense, as we usually think of life). That is to say...atomic structures and energy waveforms are alive. But that's a whole other area of discussion. The question is, is there or has there been biological life on Mars? Better yet, intelligent biological life? - LH |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Ruins on Mars??? From: Bev and Jerry Date: 23 Mar 02 - 07:50 PM Hawk:
That's a good point. In the years leading up to the Mars landing, life detection experiments had to be designed and then carried to Mars and executed. It didn't take long for the question of "What is life?" to rear its ugly head. The decision was you scoop up a sample of the soil, feed it some kind of organic soup and, if it metabolizes it in some way, we'll call it life. On that basis, no life was found. Bev and Jerry |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Ruins on Mars??? From: Amos Date: 23 Mar 02 - 08:15 PM I think LH is selling on the other side of the street -- talking about elan vital as the life force outside of physical structures and behaviors which, who knows, might be at the root nature of every particle in space. But it is not a scientific question, nor will be for quite a long time, I'm sure! :>) A |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Ruins on Mars??? From: greg stephens Date: 23 Mar 02 - 08:45 PM As I understand it, the ruins on Mars were originally folk clubs which fell into disuse after the arrival of tribes of singer-songwriters. This caused the original users to leave, and eventually the newcomers bored each other to death and that was that. |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Ruins on Mars??? From: Jerry Rasmussen Date: 23 Mar 02 - 09:06 PM I dunno about Mars, but I worked at a reputable Observatory and much to my surprise discovered that one of the astronomers believed that the moon was inhabited by a race of moon men who live inside the moon. And only come out when you're not looking. He was dead serious about it. Of course, I noticed that at about the time he developed this theory he started wearing his pants backward. The man wanted to do a public planetarium show exposing the inner core of the moon. Ya never know. Don't you just hate aliens that only come out when you're not looking? Jerry |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Ruins on Mars??? From: Little Hawk Date: 23 Mar 02 - 09:44 PM Ah well, the ones I saw in the late 60's made a mistake then! I haven't seen any of the ones that only come out when you're not looking... I have seen Richard Nixon though, and that was the next best thing, I figure. - LH |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Ruins on Mars??? From: Art Thieme Date: 23 Mar 02 - 10:04 PM And then there's Alien Gonzales. He's gone too. What you don't see is what you don't get. Art |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Ruins on Mars??? From: Little Hawk Date: 23 Mar 02 - 10:15 PM Yeah. Too bad Joan Rivers isn't invisible, eh? - LH |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Ruins on Mars??? From: The Pooka Date: 23 Mar 02 - 10:44 PM LH - Have you seen Nixon *lately*? This worries me y'see. Not about you; about him. Now this may be a side-effect of reading the "Thatcher Speaks No More" thread where our more-civilized cousins the Brits are hollering about interment at the crossroads with stakes through the heart. But if anybody spots a shifty-eyed ski-nosed visage embedded in the Martian mountains, be very afraid. Of course NASA probably wouldn't acknowledge the discovery. All those smart-ass scientists are Jews y'know, Billy. Greg Stephens - *LOL*! Amos - seriously now - structures & behaviors, or whatever they are, which might be at the root nature of all matter is *not yet a scientific question*?? Are you Stringing us along, here? Granted that the Last Word is not Witten, but does he know about this? And if LH is selling on the opposite side, who's Hawking on this one? OK OK, yes I'm bluffing & trying to provoke you; but it's in a Good Cause. Teach us. Really. |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Ruins on Mars??? From: Hrothgar Date: 24 Mar 02 - 04:07 AM Maybe the ruins on Mars are the remains of buildings constructed by Shatner in a previous existence. How far fetched does a yarn have to be? |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Ruins on Mars??? From: GUEST,fortunato Date: 24 Mar 02 - 07:42 AM How disappointing if I shuffle off this mortal coil before intelligent life is discovered in the universe. Present company excepted, of course. Little Hawk, I fear there are no ruins on Mars or Men in the Moon. But even more I fear that there is life out there, but we're too fucked up to reach it. If you took the all the bodies of all those slaughtered in the name of fanaticism, religious or otherwise, in the twentieth century and layed them end to end the bloody chain would reach the moons of Jupiter and beyond. IMAGINE. |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Ruins on Mars??? From: Rollo Date: 24 Mar 02 - 07:57 AM This is no question of science, but of religion. Mars is God His "rorschach"-test for mankind. He shows us some blobs of colour and we see faces and butterflies. God invented this kind of test after he started to doubt our sanity when he saw the first tv talkshow. |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Ruins on Mars??? From: GUEST,Jaze Date: 24 Mar 02 - 10:13 AM Why not? there's a theory that the asteroid belt that orbits just beyond Mars is the remnants of an exploded planet. Some beleive that a part of this struck the earth 10,000 years a go causing worldwide devastaion and extinction(Biblical flood?) It would stand to reason that Mars being closer would have suffered a worse fate. I know, you all think I'm crazy,(share those pills,Little Hawk), but the possibilities ARE fascinating. |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Ruins on Mars??? From: Clinton Hammond Date: 24 Mar 02 - 11:45 AM Good one, greg! LOL!!!! |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Ruins on Mars??? From: Little Hawk Date: 24 Mar 02 - 01:16 PM For sure, Jaze...I don't think you're crazy at all. There have clearly been a number of huge past events in our solar system which have seriously affected this planet and its neighbours. Such an event caused the Great Flood. Another probably wiped out the dinosaurs. Another occured around the time of Exodus and the plagues in Egypt. There have been numerous reversals of the magnetic pole of the Earth, caused by some factor as yet unexplained. There may also have been physical shifts of the planet on its axis, causing the poles to be relocated, old icecaps to melt, and new ones to form. There is your ice age...a result of a physical planetary shift rather than a slow change in the weather. At least one very good film was made around a huge planetary event...Deep Impact. Things like this have almost certainly happened in the past and will again in the future. They may even happen on a regular, cyclical nature, if there is a body, such as a comet or other large object, which has a long elliptical orbit and returns to our solar system periodically. In fact, that could be Nature's way of cleaning itself up every few thousand years, if all else fails! We certainly don't appear to be willing to do it on our own. All this is worthy of investigation, through science and every other means at hand. Forewarned is forearmed. My feeling about Mars is that it was once a planet with much water, a healthy atmosphere, and abundant life. Some of our own people may have come from it to Earth a very long time ago (when even the continents here were quite different in shape and position than they are now). I can't prove it, it's just a gut feeling. - LH |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Ruins on Mars??? From: Peter T. Date: 24 Mar 02 - 01:22 PM Of course there are ruins. Where do you think Deja Thoris lives, she of the Great Barsooms? (a Deja one would like to vu again for the first time). yours, Peter T. |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Ruins on Mars??? From: Little Hawk Date: 24 Mar 02 - 01:43 PM Funny, Peter, I was just thinking about you and Deja Thoris yesterday...I'm not kidding! I too found her downright irresistible in my impressionable teen years... Those John Carter of Mars books had to be the best thing Edgar Rice Burroughs ever came up with. He wrote pure melodrama, but what an imagination! - LH |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Ruins on Mars??? From: Clinton Hammond Date: 24 Mar 02 - 02:24 PM With a gut feeling like that LH, you should probably see a doctor... LOL!!! |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Ruins on Mars??? From: Amos Date: 24 Mar 02 - 03:34 PM Pooka: All I meant was that there is a cosmology which believes that life is not created by matter (a product of structures somehow developing behavior) but rather the other way around -- that Bergson's elan vital is somehow the organizing influence which makes the leap from chaos to order and from stimulus-response to understanding and intent happen. However, our scientific legacy steers unly to the materially reproducible construct as ameans to knowing, and life being what it is according to this ontology, it is doubtful whether it will ever consent to act as compliasnt, consistant and reproducible under study as material science expects it to. This is one of the methodological hurdles that are faced by experiments like Puthoffs at SRI, and Rhine at Duke -- they are constrained by a matter-based methodology, but trying to measure (theoretically) the very source of qualitas, which is like trying to force clear mountain spring water into a toothpaste tube. Therefore it will take a long period of evolution before the twain ever meet with some sort of competency in measuring or understanding. End of burble.... Regards, A. |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Ruins on Mars??? From: Little Hawk Date: 24 Mar 02 - 08:23 PM Good summation, Amos. Indeed my belief is that the material world issues directly from the world of Spirit, not the other way around. Material existence, essentially, is a stepping-down of frequency. If you slow a vortex of spiritual intelligence down enough, it then manifests as a finite and limited mind. If you slow it down still further it takes form (gradually, through nature's mechanisms) as a physical structure. It is then simultaneously existing in three generalized realities...physical, mental, and spiritual. Conventional science recognizes only the lower two realities, because it is itself limited to them and has arisen out of those levels of consciousness...which are predicated on division, not Unity. What distinguishes the physical and the mental is that they see themselves as limited and finite...separate from all the other limited and finite things around them. This is also the origin of fear and all attack and defense modes of behaviour. Spirit sees itself as one single Unity of conscious being, expressing itself in an infinite number of apparently separate forms...which are in sum nevertheless one undivided Unity. Spirit is the origin of unconditional Love, because it is all things and fears nothing. You can use the analogy of water vapour, water, and ice to demonstrate the point. The most physical,static, slowed down form of H2O is ice. It's the most limited in terms of its outer form and definition and it can easily be physically damaged...like the human body. The next higher form is water...like the mind it is far more flexible...being able to flow freely into any available space...and it's not subject to physical damage, but it can be polluted by toxic substances! (like hate, fear, jealousy, greed, etc.) The next higher form is water vapour. Like Spirit it is absolutely impervious to any form of damage, and it naturally expands to FILL all the space available to it. It is also H2O at the highest energetic level, so to speak. It cannot be polluted either, although the air or space it may be occupying certainly can be. The Spirit, which is entirely pure at all times, can freely occupy a seriously polluted mind and a sick body, both of which are generally quite unaware of its presence. The purpose of meditation, contemplation, prayer, and all spiritual endeavour is to become consciously aware of its presence...and then act from its perspective rather than from fear. This ice/water/water vapour story is just an analogy, but one that serves rather well to demonstrate the general idea, I think. Clinton - Ohhhh, some people are Soooo funny around here! :-) I think you said that about me one time too a while back, did't you? - LH |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Ruins on Mars??? From: Nigel Parsons Date: 24 Mar 02 - 08:27 PM It is certain that there are ruins on Mars. Unfortunately they're mainly failed U.S. probes !! |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Ruins on Mars??? From: Little Hawk Date: 24 Mar 02 - 08:46 PM Yeah, they tried to probe Spaw once, and that one got completely ruined too, I heard... :-) - LH |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Ruins on Mars??? From: Hrothgar Date: 25 Mar 02 - 03:06 AM Maybe people from Earth migrated to Mars a long time ago, and did to Mars what we're doing to Earth, only more quickly. PS - I hadn't even thought about Burroughs' books for 35 years till now! |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Ruins on Mars??? From: Wolfgang Date: 25 Mar 02 - 06:31 AM There is a Mars-ic fringe of the UFO-scene. They scan all the pictures published by NASA, enlarge them, enhance them, mirror them and do all other kinds of processing searching for signs of intelligence. For instance see this picute of a city on Mars. They (both the people and the pictures) are not very convincing to others outside of that scene. I'm with Sagan on this question who once said regarding the now much less popular canals on the Mars: Lowell always said that the regularity of the canals was an unmistakable sign that they were of intelligent origin. This is certainly true. The only unresolved question was which side of the telescope the intelligence was on. Wolfgang |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Ruins on Mars??? From: Little Hawk Date: 25 Mar 02 - 11:25 AM LOL! A little intelligence is a dangerous thing, isn't it, Wolfgang? - LH |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Ruins on Mars??? From: The Pooka Date: 26 Mar 02 - 12:20 AM Amos - I just saw your answering post now; been away from the 'Cat a bit - but belatedly, Thank you! More food for thought. / See, I'm grappling with cosmologies which suggest that matter doesn't matter, because we're really just vibrations emanating from teenytinylittle strings, and/or holographic projections on a brane. Me, I don't have the branes for it. My son gave me Hawking's latest book for Christmas so it's all his fault, the punk. My kid's I mean, not Hawking's. On the other hand, for a physically-helpless genius that Hawking is pretty damn funny, especilly when he gets going on the Russians and the French. But I digress. LH, d'y'know, I think some of these far-out Theory-of-Everything physicists are riding their fookin' equations right around to yer very point of view? / I think maybe I'm getting there too. Even if I am a P-brane. |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Ruins on Mars??? From: Bert Date: 26 Mar 02 - 01:08 AM Right on the button there Wolfgang! LH, I'm VERY disappointed in you, Don't think much of Elvis indeed;-) I know he was just an ol' country hick, but he sure could SING. I'd give my left nut to be able to sing like that; and, of course, to have the success it brought him. Bert. |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Ruins on Mars??? From: GUEST,dh Date: 26 Mar 02 - 10:57 PM please send left nut to: 2817 Mostow st. Silver spring 20902 MD....meanwhile the unwashed yahoos that frequent this forum have ignored or are ignorant of the convincing evidence regarding forest formations and tube structures on Mars |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Ruins on Mars??? From: Little Hawk Date: 26 Mar 02 - 11:04 PM Elvis was a marvelous singer, Bert! And in the early days he was an incredible live performer, but dinna fergit, Ah grew up oan folk music not rock 'n roll. It was the lyrical aspect of Elvis that left me uninterested. Musically he was superb, but if the song lyrics do not grab me I can hardly be bothered. Elvis sang silly rock songs. Dylan sings songs that mean a whole lot on a whole bunch of different levels. Elvis's body language was revolutionary, but Dylan's thoughts were revolutionary. That's the dividing line for me. I am not into music just for fun, I'm into it for transformation. But what puzzles me is...why are people always willing to give their "left" nut? What is it about the "right" nut that makes it totally indispensable? Answer me that? :-) - LH |