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- From: crb7q@kelvin.seas.Virginia.EDU (Cameron Randale Bass)
- Subject: Re: Higgs Spotted? (really about Mars)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.231844.28715@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
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- Organization: University of Virginia
- References: <FRANL.92Nov14160323@draco.centerline.com> <1992Nov16.064710.28511@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <1e97msINNe88@chnews.intel.com>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 23:18:44 GMT
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- In article <1e97msINNe88@chnews.intel.com> bhoughto@sedona.intel.com (Blair P. Houghton) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov16.064710.28511@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> crb7q@kelvin.seas.Virginia.EDU (Cameron Randale Bass) writes:
- >>>jhh@waldzell.physics.yale.edu (Jim Horne) writes:
- >>>> "Mars is somewhat the same distance from the sun, which is
- >>>> very important. We have seen pictures where there are
- >>>> canals, we believe, and water. If there is water, there
- >>>> is oxygen. If oxygen, that means we can breathe."
- >>>> Dan Quayle, August 11, 1989
- >
- >>2) What are the constituent elements of water?
- >
- >Not, as Danny Boy thinks, anything resembling breathable air.
-
- Pretty stupid of one to assume air when he said oxygen.
- Oxygen is but one component of air. I obviously made
- a faulty assumption when I assumed that everyone around here
- knew that. Should we hoot at you?
-
- >> It sounds pretty funny when presented the appropriate way, but
- >
- >You mean it's fucking hilarious when the Vice President of
- >the United States of America makes a speech extolling the
- >virtues of grandly scoped space travel with utterly
- >disingenuous misapplications of facts that any involved (or,
- >indeed, sentient) government official would have checked,
- >at the very least with a local high-school science teacher.
-
- Please point out the incorrect assertion. Spare me the interpretation.
-
- Or better yet, did you howl when the President of the United States made
- a gaffe in text that should have been checked, at the very least, with
- several German schoolchildren? Do you honestly think that derision
- is more appropriate than elaborating?
-
- >> Mr. Quayle was an active head of the National Space Council.
- >
- >He was a politician in a plastic space helmet playing
- >Plan 9 From Outer Space, and losing.
- >
- > --Blair
- > "We have seen pictures where
- > there are holes in the moon,
- > and we believe the moon is
- > made of cheese. If there is
- > cheese, there is mildew, and
- > if mildew, that means we can
- > have dressing for our salad..."
-
- 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.
-
- Are you saying that the likelyhood of there being water on Mars
- is the same as the likelyhood of the moon being made of cheese?
- I'd have to say that this is wildly at variance with current theory.
-
- dale bass
-
- --
- C. R. Bass crb7q@virginia.edu
- Department of Mechanical,
- Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering
- University of Virginia (804) 924-7926
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