Mars' Reull Vallis: a River Ran Through It 41
Press2ToContinue sends this quote from a European Space Agency news release:
"ESA's Mars Express imaged the striking upper part of the Reull Vallis region of Mars with its high-resolution stereo camera last year. Reull Vallis, the river-like structure in these images, is believed to have formed when running water flowed in the distant martian past, cutting a steep-sided channel through the Promethei Terra Highlands before running on towards the floor of the vast Hellas basin. This sinuous structure, which stretches for almost 1500 km across the martian landscape, is flanked by numerous tributaries, one of which can be clearly seen cutting in to the main valley towards the upper (north) side."
Note the lack of impact craters in the stream bed (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Almost Certainly Life At Least At 1 Point In Ti (Score:2, Insightful)
What's with these fantasies about life coming from Mars?
Earth didn't need help, it had all the raw materials, and in an environment without life, self-replicating chemicals would flourish. Saying "life came from outta space" just pushes the origin of life question a little bit - it doesn't answer it.
Re:Note the lack of impact craters in the stream b (Score:4, Insightful)
Dude don't even go there, if you knew anything about relativity or how the universe works, you'd know that you'd be traveling back in time if you did this and would create a black hole and either a paradox would happen or the universe would just tear apart. You can't go faster than light asshole.
One might infer that if it was possible and if it would tear the universe apart some asshole would have done it by now just for the lulz