Re: A hole in Mars



On Mon, 28 May 2007 12:31:12 -0700, "Martin R. Howell"
<martinhowell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

What a strange little solar system we have going on! The Astronomy Picture
of the Day (http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070528.html), reveals one
heck of a bizarre quirk on the Red Planet. I want to think there is an
advanced civilization living beneath the surface that didn't pay their
light bill before the power was turned off. Come on, Martians. . .get
those lights back on so we can peer into your habitat.

It makes me think of the deep boreholes (called moholes) that were used
in Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars books to tap into the planet's heat as
part of the terraforming process. We were the Martians.

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Chris L Peterson
Cloudbait Observatory
http://www.cloudbait.com
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