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Originally posted by connorromanow
ive seen pictures of what lookel ike trees on mars, but none of this quality. ive also seen a shell, and a cricket(looked fake)
Originally posted by Misterlondon
Originally posted by Exuberant1
Those black marks look more like petroleum seepage than trees.
It looks like there's oil in thum thar hills.
Here is MikeSingh's version of an image from the region:
edit on 22-7-2011 by Exuberant1 because: (no reason given)
Looks like it's only a matter of time before the "coalition" invades...
On a serious and positive note.. If that is oil, surely that makes a manned mission to mars with our current propulsion technology (combustion) more of a possibility.. (of course that depends if we can find a way of refining it into useable form of fuel on the surface of mars)
Originally posted by zorgon
Originally posted by connorromanow
ive seen pictures of what lookel ike trees on mars, but none of this quality. ive also seen a shell, and a cricket(looked fake)
You would enjoy this page... took a lot of work
Fossils on Mars - A Collection of Evidence
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Originally posted by fooks
right, all we need is an incoming 150,000 gal freighter filled with martian sweet crude oil or gasoline at 15,000 mph!
lol! rain of fire or what?! and how much would that cost? lol!
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A method and apparatus are provided for delivering lunar generated fluid to Earth orbit from lunar orbit. Transport takes place in an external tank of a shuttle which has been suitably outfitted in Earth orbit for reusable travel between Earth orbit and a lunar orbit. The outfitting of the external tank includes the adding of an engine, an electrical system, a communication system, a guidance system, an aerobraking device, and a plurality of interconnected fluid storage tanks to the hydrogen and oxygen tanks of the external tank. The external tank is then propelled to lunar orbit the first time using Earth based propellant. In lunar orbit, the storage tanks are filled with the lunar generated fluid with the remainder tank volumes filled with lunar generated liquid oxygen and hydrogen which serve as propellants for returning the tank to Earth orbit where the fluid is off-loaded. The remaining lunar generated oxygen and hydrogen is then sufficient to return the external tank to lunar orbit so that a subsequent cycle of fluid delivery is repeated. A space station in a higher Earth orbit is preferably used to outfit the external tank, and a lunar node in lunar orbit is used to store and transfer the fluid and liquid oxygen and hydrogen to the external tank. The lunar generated fluid is preferably 3He.
no offence, just using your post to reply to the oil people in general, sorry. if we get to mars we will not be exporting oil or probably even using it for energy there.
Originally posted by fooks
we don't know anything about mars (so they say)
how we gonna fire up the furnaces? import O2?
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