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- From: clarke@acme.ucf.edu (Thomas Clarke)
- Subject: Re: Higgs Spotted? (really about Mars)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.133700.11812@cs.ucf.edu>
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- Organization: University of Central Florida
- References: <1992Nov16.231844.28715@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 13:37:00 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov16.231844.28715@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
- crb7q@kelvin.seas.Virginia.EDU (Cameron Randale Bass) writes:
- >
- >
- > However, there *are* apparently pluvial formations on Mars.
- > We *do* believe that there is water somewhere (at least some
- > of us do), and there have been any number of proposals to use
- > that water for oxygen for humans to breathe while on a Mars
- > mission.
- >
- Maybe we should be charitable to Mr. Quayle, but when I read his
- Mars (mis?)statement, I immediately thought of books about Mars
- I had read as a child in which scientists believed coniditions on
- Mars were much as Mr. Quayle described.
-
- My thought was how sad that the head of our National Space Council
- had not learned any planetary astronomy since elementary school.
-
- Maybe Quayle really is quite intelligent and educated, but has bad
- foot in the mouth disease. Then why is he a politician?
-
- --
- Thomas Clarke
- Institute for Simulation and Training, University of Central FL
- 12424 Research Parkway, Suite 300, Orlando, FL 32826
- (407)658-5030, FAX: (407)658-5059, clarke@acme.ucf.edu
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