Stone Henge on Mars -Marshenge

[Maets]

Is this Marshenge?

Alien Mysteries: Marshenge!!! Stonehenge Looking Area On Mars Discovered. -UFO Alien OVNI-

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/mars-stonehenge_5604d8a4e4b0768126fd0cfe?utm_hp_ref=science&ir=Science&section=science



Looks interesting.

[J. Wilhelm]

Oh?  Another henge?  I didn't know there were Martian Druids. Tradition has it the the stones came from somewhere afar.  Have they checked to see if the stones differ from the surrounding geology?  And who were the poor saps who were convinced to quarry and push/carry/drag/float the stones a few hundred miles?

[Caledonian]

:0

[von Corax]

I'm not sure if I should say what it looks like to me; I'm waiting for someone else to notice and point it out.

[Miranda.T]

I'm not sure if I should say what it looks like to me; I'm waiting for someone else to notice and point it out.

Ah, I know what you mean - it's an optical illusion, and is clearly a tripod landing site; we're seeing not monoliths but the indentations made by the legs from a couple of landings. I'm sure there can be nothing else you are thinking of...  

Funnily enough, NASA is supposed to be making a big Mars announcement on Monday; something about a "mystery explained"... http://www.space.com/30666-nasa-mars-discovery-webcast-monday.html

Yours,
Miranda.

[GCCC]

Looks interesting.

Whatever this is, it looks infected. It should be lanced.

[Drew P]

I'm not sure if I should say what it looks like to me; I'm waiting for someone else to notice and point it out.

Nope, I was going to leave it and it's other alone, also.

[Banfili]

Is this NASAs big announcement? has someone scooped the news?

I am too ladylike to point out its resemblance to .....!

[Maets]

Liquid water on Mars!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/liquid-water-mars_5608c70be4b0768126fdfd44?utm_hp_ref=science&ir=Science&section=science

[Banfili]

Now that IS something!

[J. Wilhelm]

What we need is to find rocks on Mars like the "Alan Hills 84001" rock that ANSMET / NASA scientists found in Antarctica about 30 years ago, and which about 20 years ago made headlines for suggesting it contained fossilised nanobacteria.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan_Hills_84001

[Hurricane Annie]

I'm not sure if I should say what it looks like to me; I'm waiting for someone else to notice and point it out.

 carbunkle  ?

[Caledonian]

Liquid water on Mars!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/liquid-water-mars_5608c70be4b0768126fdfd44?utm_hp_ref=science&ir=Science&section=science

The below contains a doctor who reference.




DO NOT DRINK THE WATER!!

[J. Wilhelm]

Maybe the subject would become more discussed if some of the old media still existed.

Who is old enough here to remember the US/UK Sci-Fi+Sci-Real magazine OMNI?

[Drew P]

I remember seeing OMNI, but never reading it.

[Maets]

I did think there would be more on the news about this.

[Caledonian]

I did think there would be more on the news about this.

So did I...

[Miranda.T]

I did think there would be more on the news about this.

It did make the main news bulletins on the BBC on the day of the announcement along with a couple of newspaper front pages, and it had got my students quite interested, so at least the announcement was getting through. So, does this swing back the focus of the search for 'life out there' from the Jupiter/Saturn moons back to Mars?

Yours.
Miranda.

[J. Wilhelm]

I remember seeing OMNI, but never reading it.

It was a good magazine because they divided their fiction from science fact in segments, scientists and Sci Fi writers mingled in the pages. Some really famous wors of fiction like Johnny Mnenonic were published there first.

I read some of the most interesting discussions on extraterrestrial life in OMNI. The extraterrestrial life and space illustrations were awesome too, made by some professional space / science illustrator. Some of HR Giger's work was show there too

[Maets]

Bill Nye is excited about finding water on Mars.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/why-bill-nye-is-so-pumped-about-the-mars-water-discovery_560af3f6e4b0dd85030995fa?utm_hp_ref=science&ir=Science&section=science

Why Bill Nye Is So Pumped About The Mars Water Discovery
"If we were to discover evidence of ancient life, or stranger still, something living there now...it would change the way every one of us feels about being alive."

[Drew P]

So I probably should have picked an issue up.....

[J. Wilhelm]

So I probably should have picked an issue up.....

I guess it depends on what age you were when you saw those magazines.  In the early 80s, I was a kid, alight, but old enough to appreciate OMNI, as well as that other magazine by Bob Guccione (which was much harder to come by at my age, but showed the most beautiful forms of life on this planet*   )

Just see this issue of November 1981.  It had a sci-fact article entitled "Why man Explores," co authored by Carl Sagan, James Michener, and Ray Bradbury among others!! On the feature page it reads:

"ARTHUR C. CLARKE, JAMES A. MICHENER, RAY BRADBURY, CARL SAGAN, ERICA JONG, NORMAN COUSINS, ROBERT SILVERBERG, ET AL, ON BLIMPS, EXPLORERS, MAGNETIC PEOPLE, AND TRANSSEXUAL REINCARNATION"

Contents / Articles

First Word - Opinion Ben Bova
Omnibus - Contributors
Communications - Correspondence
Forum - Dialogue
Earth - Environment Susan Mazur
Life - Biomedicine Bernard Dixon
Mind - Behavior Walli F. Leff
Space - Comment Jerry Pournelle
Music - The Arts Tom Hight
Film - The Arts Jeff Rovin
Continuum - Data Bank
The Blimping Of America - Article Kurt Stehling and Mike Edelhart
Executive Clemency - Fiction Gardner Dozois and Jack C. Haldeman II
Why Man Explores - Article Clarke, Michener, Bradbury, Sagan, et al
The Soul Painter And The Shapeshifter - Fiction Robert Silverberg
Land Of The Rising Sun - Pictoral R. Bruce McColm
Witches - Article Erica Jong
W. Donner Denckla - Interview Albert Rosenfeld
Forever - Fiction Damon Knight
Cosmic Surrealism - Pictoral Frederick C. Durant III
Antimatter - Magnetic People, Transexual Reincarnation
Credits
Stars - Astronomy David K. Lynch
Vitamin D - Phenomena Manfred Kage
Games - Diversions Scot Morris
Last Word - Humor Anne-Lise Gotzsche

I mean, dude!  

http://www.omnimagonline.com/



*Especially in the late 70s / early 80s

[Banfili]

Crikey!
Want!

[von Corax]

Bookmarked with extreme prejudice!

It was in Omni that I first learned of Luigi Colani.

It was in the other magazine where I first learned of other things...

[ewoudo]

I have seen Videos and pictures of piramides ancient bones an alien crab and lots of more stuff on mars..

Some call it strange rock formations others believe we already inhabit mars..

Truth is in the eye of the beholder i guess