BS: Somebody's been farting on Mars!

Subject: RE: BS: Somebody's been farting on Mars!
From: Donuel
Date: 25 Mar 09 - 04:25 PM

The thin air can move at 200 mph on Mars and be felt as nary a breeze but is very effective at dusting off surfaces.

At these speeds the Hydrogen di sulfide smell is one fast fart in the wind.

Methane was probably more plentiful for the first million years after the catasrophic impact/electrical encounter that left Mars scarred and dying.

Subject: RE: BS: Somebody's been farting on Mars!
From: Cluin
Date: 24 Mar 09 - 09:03 PM

Chicken or egg?

Subject: RE: BS: Somebody's been farting on Mars!
From: DougR
Date: 24 Mar 09 - 05:34 PM

The result, no doubt, of global warming.

DougR

Subject: RE: BS: Somebody's been farting on Mars!
From: Cluin
Date: 23 Mar 09 - 07:31 PM

"The chances of anyone farting on Mars are a million to one", he said.

Subject: RE: BS: Somebody's been farting on Mars!
From: wysiwyg
Date: 10 Mar 09 - 01:14 PM

It was me.

As Kat knows, I've been flying high of late and doing faraway Diocesan parochial visits in my mini-camper, but I'm working on balance. This time I went a little too far, too fast (when I shouldda napped).

Spaw could not have gone, so I thought I'd just go on his behalf-- a Layabout like Spaw has to get naps that I zoom right past.

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Somebody's been farting on Mars!
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 10 Mar 09 - 12:29 PM

unless of course............

Subject: RE: BS: Somebody's been farting on Mars!
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 10 Mar 09 - 12:23 PM

We are too quick to blame ourselves, but especially Spaw, for anything that goes wrong. The methane on Mars does not come from farts. There is methane in deep space and on Neptune, where Spaw has never been.

See; http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1990ApJ...355..661D

CH3D means methane where one deuterium atom has replaced an H atom. That, and the fact that they discovered it using a telescope in Hawaii, is all I understand of this article.

I think we should all get a grant to go to Hawaii and look into this. Somebody could write a song or two to justify the public expense.

Meanwhile, farts consist mostly of swallowed air and carbon dioxide from soft drinks. Another reason why not to waste money on soft drinks.

Subject: RE: BS: Somebody's been farting on Mars!
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 09 Mar 09 - 07:41 PM

Such were the joys of the 60's and early seventies..... there were some risque songs about

Subject: RE: BS: Somebody's been farting on Mars!
From: olddude
Date: 09 Mar 09 - 07:41 PM

Dang those Martian Red Beans and beer
do it every time

Subject: RE: BS: Somebody's been farting on Mars!
From: Donuel
Date: 09 Mar 09 - 07:34 PM

WOW GS

I never knew such beautiful songs existed

Subject: RE: BS: Somebody's been farting on Mars!
From: Genie
Date: 09 Mar 09 - 03:12 PM

Wonderful, GS!

Now the thread qualifies for the Music section!!

Genie

Subject: RE: BS: Somebody's been farting on Mars!
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 09 Mar 09 - 12:43 PM

Someone obviously removed their spacesuit!!!!!! (Sung by Donovan in 1973... anyone remember it?)

I was impressed like everyone,
When man began to fly,
Out of earthly regions,
To planets in the sky.
With total media coverage,
We watched the heros land,
As ceremoniously
They disturbed the cosmic sand.

In awe with admiration,
We listened to the talk.
Such pride felt they,
Such joy to be
Upon the moon to walk.
My romantic vision shattered,
When it was explained to me,
Spacemen wear old diapers
In which they shit and pee.

Oh, the intergalactic laxative,
Will get you from here to there.
Relieve you and believe me,
Without a worry or care.
If shitting is your problem,
When you're out there in the stars,
Oh, the intergalactic laxative
Will get you from here to Mars.

They don't partake like you and I,
Of beefy burger mush.
Their food is specially prepared
To dissolve into slush.
Absorbed by multi-fibers
In the super diaper suit,
Otherwise the slush would trickle
Down inside the boot.

Oh, the intergalactic laxative,
Will get you from here to there.
Relieve you and believe me,
Without a worry or care.
If shitting is your problem
When you're out there in the stars,
Oh, the intergalactic laxative
Will get you from here to Mars.

You may well ask now what becomes
Of liquid they consume.
A pipe is led from penis head
To a unit in the room.
The water is recirculated,
Filtered for re-use.
In case of anti-gravity -
Pee gets on the loose.

Oh, the intergalactic laxative,
Will get you from here to there.
Relieve you and believe me,
Without a worry or care.
If shitting is your problem
When you're out there in the stars,
Oh, the intergalactic laxative
Will get you from here to Mars.

Wherever man has conquered,
On the quest for frontiers new,
(Da da da da)
I'm glad that he's always had to do
The number one and two.
It makes it all so ordinary,
Just like you and me,
To know the greatest heroes,
They had to shit and pee.

The intergalactic laxative
Will get you from here to there,
For cosmic constipation
There's none that can compare.
If shitting is your problem
When you're out there in the stars,
Oh, the intergalactic laxative,
The intergalactic laxative,
The intergalactic laxative,



Intergalactic Laxative... Donovan.. just in case you might consider performing i

Subject: RE: BS: Somebody's been farting on Mars!
From: Micca
Date: 09 Mar 09 - 11:49 AM

Since it is number 1 in a homologus series of hydrocarbons called Olefins the CORRECT (English) pronunciation of the series is
ME-thane
E-Thane
Pro-pane
Bu-tane
Pen-tane
Hex-ane
mind you they can't even get something as easy as Alu-MIN-ium right!!

Subject: RE: BS: Somebody's been farting on Mars!
From: Don(Wyziwyg)T
Date: 09 Mar 09 - 11:11 AM

I'm with YOU BR!

Where do these jumped up Colonials with their 230 year history get off trying to tell us how to pronounce the language we were speaking when the American for hello was HOW?

LOL
Don T.

Subject: RE: BS: Somebody's been farting on Mars!
From: bubblyrat
Date: 09 Mar 09 - 10:28 AM

As an Englishman,I reserve the right to continue to say "MEE-thane",as that is the way I was taught,in school,to pronounce it.I will,however,be prepared to try the alternative US pronunciation IF you people in America will say " An-TEE tank",or "An-TEE aircraft", instead of your ludicrous " Ant-EYE tank" and "Ant-EYE" aircraft" !!Makes I laugh,it do !!

Subject: RE: BS: Somebody's been farting on Mars!
From: Micca
Date: 09 Mar 09 - 05:06 AM

Maybe it was one of the Thoats?

Subject: RE: BS: Somebody's been farting on Mars!
From: Peace
Date: 08 Mar 09 - 05:52 PM

DejaH Thoris.

Subject: RE: BS: Somebody's been farting on Mars!
From: Peace
Date: 08 Mar 09 - 05:43 PM

Well, John Carter would never have done that. Nor would Dejas Thoris. THEY had CLASS.

Subject: RE: BS: Somebody's been farting on Mars!
From: Genie
Date: 08 Mar 09 - 04:41 PM

Tune: Humoresque

"Astronauts will please refrain
from passing gas on the terrain
of planets such as Mars -
dear, I love you!
We discourage indigestion
while the space capsule in question
possibly gives off a spark or two."

Subject: RE: BS: Somebody's been farting on Mars!
From: Rog Peek
Date: 08 Mar 09 - 04:33 PM

Well Eddie now you're talking!

Rog

Subject: RE: BS: Somebody's been farting on Mars!
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 08 Mar 09 - 03:51 PM

I wish Pat would refrain ;)

Subject: RE: BS: Somebody's been farting on Mars!
From: Peace
Date: 08 Mar 09 - 03:07 PM

Don't matter how ya say it, CH4 is CH4.

(Good song refrain.)

Subject: RE: BS: Somebody's been farting on Mars!
From: Riginslinger
Date: 08 Mar 09 - 09:15 AM

Yeah, that's the one, but it wasn't the spelling it was the pronunciation.

Subject: RE: BS: Somebody's been farting on Mars!
From: eddie1
Date: 08 Mar 09 - 09:12 AM

Don't include me either - I'm Scottish!

Hey Rog! Was this the Brit he meant and he got his spelling wrong?

Britt

Subject: RE: BS: Somebody's been farting on Mars!
From: Rog Peek
Date: 08 Mar 09 - 09:04 AM

By "The Btits", do you mean all of them!

Don't count me in, I'm English!

Rog

Subject: RE: BS: Somebody's been farting on Mars!
From: Riginslinger
Date: 07 Mar 09 - 09:25 PM

It's probably all the beans they eat--and why do the Brits insist on calling it "meethane?"

Subject: RE: BS: Somebody's been farting on Mars!
From: catspaw49
Date: 07 Mar 09 - 09:10 PM

Yeah, that picture is a fake! You can clearly see the Ohio River and Lake Erie at the bototm and top respectively which centers the image squarely on Bremen. It has been exceptionally clear and good for IR imaging and the whole things ties in to the Buffalo Chili timeline.

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Somebody's been farting on Mars!
From: Amos
Date: 07 Mar 09 - 07:08 PM

NASA got their images confused; that's an infrared flyover of central Ohio, and the red spot centers on the domicile of one Pat Patterson.


A

Subject: RE: BS: Somebody's been farting on Mars!
From: Genie
Date: 07 Mar 09 - 07:06 PM

I guess Spaw didn't get the memo, Uncle Dave. ; D

Subject: RE: BS: Somebody's been farting on Mars!
From: Peace
Date: 07 Mar 09 - 05:13 PM

And it seems someone also lit a match.

Subject: RE: BS: Somebody's been farting on Mars!
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 07 Mar 09 - 03:33 PM

I thought we had prohibited Spaw from engaging in interplanetary travel.

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: BS: Somebody's been farting on Mars!
From: Ebbie
Date: 07 Mar 09 - 03:16 PM

Frying Mars?

Subject: RE: BS: Somebody's been farting on Mars!
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 07 Mar 09 - 03:00 PM

A Mars a day, helps you work, rest, and trump.

Subject: RE: BS: Somebody's been farting on Mars!
From: gnu
Date: 07 Mar 09 - 02:15 PM

Excuse me.

Subject: BS: Somebody's been farting on Mars!
From: Cluin
Date: 07 Mar 09 - 01:47 PM

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090119.html