Uhmmm

Which SCI-FI writer wrote this? Not a bad outline for a story.. but ..

I have major problems with it right from the first words.. "Mars was heavily populated about 1 billion years ago". How do you know mars is not heavily populated now? I have seen evidence after evidence of surface constructs.. ALL all of which indicate a greater subsurface construction.

How are sediments accumulating over a billion years.. without water? You have to understand, without water, erosion is much less and limited to wind erosion and abrasion by air driving particles (sands).

Mars has flowing water now. I have seen it in numerous images and even have found what can only be a dam.. artificial dam.

I have some degree of faith in 90+ percent of mars's impact craters occuring in one 24 hour period. This itself would have thrown Mars into a "nuclear" winter.. devasted the atmosphere..and perhaps caused much of the water to disappear from the surface.

• Civilisation on Mars - gobeo - February 11, 2001 - 22:53 UTC
  • Re: Civilisation on Mars - tripp - February 12, 2001 - 05:16 UTC
    • why not - gobeo - February 12, 2001 - 20:29 UTC
      • a cover up - gobeo - February 12, 2001 - 20:46 UTC
        • Re: a cover up - tripp - February 13, 2001 - 05:52 UTC
          • $158Million mistake (pounds and Newtons) - alexander - February 13, 2001 - 15:47 UTC
            • Re: $158Million mistake (pounds and Newtons) - tripp - February 13, 2001 - 18:05 UTC
              • Learning conversion from Pounds to Newtons. - alexander - February 14, 2001 - 20:23 UTC
                • Re: Learning conversion from Pounds to Newtons. - tripp - February 16, 2001 - 11:03 UTC
                  • Re: Re: Learning conversion from Pounds to Newtons. - alexander - February 17, 2001 - 09:17 UTC
      • Of course. - alexander - February 13, 2001 - 00:31 UTC
• Re: Re: Civilisation on Mars. - alexander - February 12, 2001 - 20:19 UTC