Tram Town
Monday, February 09, 2004
| Category: Mars Erik Baard does a nice little dissection of the work of the martian hopefuls. Perhaps our next Mars probe should be called the Tinkerbell. The fairy from "Peter Pan" was brought to life by children shouting, "I do believe in fairies! I do! I do!" The same chorus of belief in Martians resounds with each downpour of images and data from the apparently dead Red Planet.and... Would be astrobiologists (a new field that weds astronomy with biology) claim to see everything from fossilized coral and seashells to an admittedly creepy looking claw.If they are wedding astronomy with biology, why not make the resultant field astrology. That would make a hell of a lot more sense in a lot of ways. |
