Autocratic Intellectuals

SO, will Mars be master of men, or men master of Mars?

And hmm, I sorta side with the autocratic intellectuals, though I'm willing to listen to reasoned arguments, but leave the libraries alone!

Joe Doolin — Mars — Planet Comics — 1940s

Tantalizing

BTW, you know that I was JK yesterday about Mars civilizations and Bradbury rovers and such, right? We'll be lucky if we ever stumble across a 10 million year old microbial fossil. And the Curiosity team has been careful to say that it's mission is not to look for life or signs of life, but rather to see if conditions are good for past or future life on Mars.

So landing at the base of an alluvial fan is a great place to start that mission. Signs of water in the past are key to this expedition for Curiosity. Just look at the tantalizing geographic features in the image below, color coded for elevation, red highest, blue lowest. It sure looks like a river feature emptying into a shallow ocean basin.

We want to know more! Why? Because we have CURIOSITY!

altimeter map of the south margins of the northern plains of Mars

YOW

WE'RE ON MARS AGAIN!!!

CONGRATULATIONS NASA and JPL and CURIOSITY!!!

First Thumbnail Photo from Curiosity

Curiosity

Let's take a quick group tour with Mind-Travel to visit Mars right now, before the Curiosity Rover makes a landing late tonight.

It's possible that the civilization on Mars is a quantum dimensional shift from our current frequency of vibration, several micro-oscillations out of sync so that we don't have direct evidence of it. When we finally can launch the Bradbury Rover, it will have a detector on board that will view in various frequencies, and THEN we'll REALly see something.

Ron Miller — Martian City — digital art

In the meantime, wishing the very best of fortune to the Curiosity and it's Earth team during it's seven minutes of terror. I'll be watching and hopefully you will too— on NASA TV.