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| More links and information - Boston Globe Posted: 08 Nov 2009 08:27 PM PST Martian landscapesSince 2006, NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has been orbiting Mars, currently circling approximately 300 km (187 mi) above the Martian surface. On board the MRO is HiRISE, the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment camera, which has been photographing the planet for several years now at resolutions as fine as mere inches per pixel. Collected here is a group of images from HiRISE over the past few years, in either false color or grayscale, showing intricate details of landscapes both familiar and alien, from the surface of our neighboring planet, Mars. I invite you to take your time looking through these, imagining the settings - very cold, dry and distant, yet real. (35 photos total) This blogger might want to review your comment before posting it. |
| Keyboard commandos in Freeperville threatening violence -- again - Democratic Underground.com Posted: 08 Nov 2009 08:20 PM PST http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2381308/po... The original post: It's Time to start Organizing For Civil Disobedience!!!!
It's obvious by now the body politic is replete with socialists, Communists and fascists who have no regard for the Constitution, the rule of law or the people. Their only goal is the utter destruction of the Constitution and our Democratic Republic. Unfortunately for them we are the majority. It is time we take the next step by putting our heads together and form mass resistance to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution ourselves since the three branches of government are seeking complete domination over our lives. There can be no holding back. The time is now to put our heads together and show the socialists we are taking back our country!!! Some of the responses: If by "civil disobedience" you mean "armed revolution" then I agree... 3 posted on Saturday, November 07, 2009 11:31:18 PM by Wyatt's Torch =============== A military coup works for me. 11 posted on Saturday, November 07, 2009 11:33:48 PM by buccaneer81 =============== De-fund them. Pick a date. We go to work (those who still have a job) and fill out new W4s. Whatever it takes to get your tax down to zero. Overwhelm the IRS. They can't move a muscle without our money. Why in the world are we going to willing keep giving it to these traitors? They are stealing our money and giving it to others. They have ruined our futures, our retirments, our piece of mind, our country, our liberty and stolen the future of our children and grandchildren and we are paying them to do it. They can't put all of us in jail. 13 posted on Saturday, November 07, 2009 11:34:09 PM by conservativegranny ================ It's only treason if you are unsuccessful. 15 posted on Saturday, November 07, 2009 11:34:37 PM by Blood of Tyrants ================ "If by "civil disobedience" you mean "armed revolution" then I agree..." 20 posted on Saturday, November 07, 2009 11:35:22 PM by FightThePower! =================== was just grazing on the thoughts of Thoreau, "That government is best which governs least. ...That government is best which governs not at all." The flip side to that is that the people who need government the least are the best, and those who need government not at all are the best of all. That used to be the kind of people we had in America, before the great cultural revolution of the sixties and the socialist scheme of multiculturalism created the need for more and more government. Now we have the needs and the need nots, not the haves and the have nots, or this race and that race, but those who need government, and those who don't. That's the nature of America struggling against post-America. The need nots need civil disobedience, or freedom will die. 26 posted on Saturday, November 07, 2009 11:38:16 PM by pallis ===================== I know we should have expected this abomination of a bill to pass. It's not really a surprise, but it is still infuriating. It's been said that revolution starts like this: When one steps out their front door, gun in hand, and sees that all the neighbors are doing the same thing, that's the day the revolution starts. Then we all head on over to the nearest house of ill repute (any government building) and take back our country. The elites in Washington think that day of revolution will never happen. They will be wrong. ***Who here tonight on FR knows when the senate gets to vote on this pig? How long do we have to work on them to stop total passage? 32 posted on Saturday, November 07, 2009 11:40:25 PM by TheConservativeParty ==================== I disagree. Violent action is not necessary. What we need is to send a clear signal to the military that we will have their back when they move in to enforce the Constitution. The liberals won't have the guts to stand up to the military. With strong, swift action, I think a Constitutional restoration would be fairly bloodless. But do do it right would take time. A real restoration would require taking the time to root out bot just the traitors in the government, but all the traitors embedded in the media, academia, corprations and other institutions. 34 posted on Saturday, November 07, 2009 11:40:58 PM by USALiberty ======================= That's been my plan since last November. My purchases are limited to: Needless to say, holiday shopping is nowhere near that list. 49 posted on Saturday, November 07, 2009 11:44:38 PM by Windcatcher ========================= I lost my job two weeks ago, and I'll live under a F&cking bridge before I will work and pay taxes under this adminstruation! But now I have plenty, of time...lots of idle time. 57 posted on Saturday, November 07, 2009 11:48:08 PM by Boiling point ========================= We are beyond civil disobedience. 75 posted on Sunday, November 08, 2009 12:08:50 AM by Lily4Jesus ========================= Just because you win an election does not mean you get to do whatever the f you want to do. They have gone too far... Way too far... The armed million man march on DC sounds really friggen good... However, my first preference would be for a couple of states to peel off, effective the day this POS gets signed into law. 91 posted on Sunday, November 08, 2009 12:27:27 AM by myself6 ===================== Their B.S. plan will never take effect. If we can't stop them in court or the ballot box, we can stop them in stronger ways. The American people is the largest group of Americans who are fully armed and prepared to keep our liberty. The military will never side with commie Obama in a real fight for saving our freedom. Encourage your friends to stock up on guns and ammo because it sends a powerful message to the lunatic left! 127 posted on Sunday, November 08, 2009 12:52:49 AM by Stayfree ======================= the commies are tighting the noose slowly but surly. we must make some kind of a stand. I'm not talking about how you feel after watching one of those feel good movies. dont get me wrong something has to happen. I want you to really think about what it would be like to get up tomorrow morning and put on your cammies,leg knife,pistol, and a pack with some ammo and food and pick up your rifle. Look at your wife and kids, and head out the front door. lets look at what the founding fathers gave up. they gave up everything they have, home and land, reputation and some there lives. We may be asked to do the same. what i'm saying is, its easy to talk. so lets think real hard and make our decisions. rome didnt take over the world by talking......... 140 posted on Sunday, November 08, 2009 1:21:35 AM by Beamreach ====================== Agree — going for more ammo Monday — there is NOTHING the left hates more than gun toters; they are terrified of any mention of a firearm of any kind. Everybody who is not already armed needs to get it done, now. Let's make Obama gun salesman of the month every month for the balance of his term, whatever that may be. 171 posted on Sunday, November 08, 2009 4:08:01 AM by CaliforniaCon This content has passed through fivefilters.org. |
| Latest Articles - Dissident Voice Posted: 08 Nov 2009 08:49 PM PST If there's one thing the Israelis are good at it's making war on women and children. They killed 952 Palestinian kiddies in their homeland between 2000 and the start of the Gaza blitzkrieg in December 2008 (according to B'Tselem statistics). They murdered at least 350 more during their Cast Lead onslaught and have kept Gaza under daily attack ever since. So the brave Israelis must have eliminated nearly 1400 youngsters by now. Would anyone care to guess how many they left bleeding, maimed and crippled? The "most moral army in the world" also loves waging war against Palestinian university students. Not long ago I wrote about Merna, an honors student in her final year majoring in English. Israeli soldiers frequently rampaged through her Bethlehem refugee camp in the middle of the night, ransacking homes and arbitrarily arresting residents. They took away her family one by one. First her 14-year-old cousin and best friend was shot dead by an Israeli sniper while she sat outside her family home during a curfew. Next the Israelis arrested her eldest brother, a 22 year-old artist, and imprisoned him for 4 years. Then they came back for Merna's 18-year-old brother. Not content with that the military came again, this time to take her youngest brother – the 'baby' of the family – just 16. These were the circumstances under which Merna had to study. Israeli military law treats Palestinians as adults as soon as they reach 16, a flagrant violation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. Israeli youngsters, of course, are regarded as children until 18. Palestinians are dealt with by Israeli military courts, even when it's a civil matter. These courts ignore international laws and conventions, so there's no legal protection for individuals under Israeli military occupation. As detention is based on secret information, which neither the detainee nor his lawyer is allowed to see, it is impossible to mount a proper defence. Besides, the Security Service always finds a bogus excuse to keep detainees locked up "in the greater interest of the security of Israel". Although detainees have the right to review and appeal, they are unable to challenge the evidence and check facts as all information presented to the Court is classified. So much for Israeli 'justice'. Faced with this mounting mental stress Merna, far from giving up, determined to carry on with her studies. The most moral army in the world may have robbed her brothers of an education, but she would still fight for hers. To get to Bethlehem University, or any other, many students have to run the gauntlet of Israeli checkpoints. "Sometimes they take our ID cards and they spend ages writing down all the details, just to make us late," said one. Students are often made to remove shoes, belt and bags. "It's like an airport. Many times we are kept waiting outside for up to an hour, rain or shine, they don't care." The soldiers attempt to forcibly remove students' clothes and they swear and shout sexual slurs at female students. Some tell how they are sexually harassed on their way to university and spend the rest of the day worrying what the Israelis will do to them on their way home. The constant humiliation undermines student motivation and concentration. Five years ago the Israelis forcibly removed four Birzeit University students from their studies in the West Bank and illegally sent them back to the Gaza Strip. All four were due to graduate by the end of that academic year. There was an outcry from around the world and the Israeli Army Legal Advisor was bombarded with faxes and letters demanding that the students be allowed to return to their studies. The world's most moral army agreed that the students might be allowed to return to Birzeit if they signed a guarantee to permanently return to the Gaza Strip after completing their studies. This effectively exposed Israel's policy to impose a final separation between the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, even though the two are internationally recognized as one integral territory. Under international law everyone has the right to freely choose their place of residence within a single territory, but since when did Israel give a damn about international law? The racist regime makes it virtually impossible for Gaza students to reach the eight Palestinian universities in the West Bank. In 1999 some 350 Gaza students were studying at Birzeit. Today there are almost none. It was no great surprise, then, to hear from Bethlehem University a few days ago that Berlanty Azzam, a 4th year Business Administration student, was being held in detention by the Israeli military authorities with the intention of deporting her to Gaza "for trying to complete her studies at Bethlehem University." Berlanty, a Christian girl, is originally from Gaza but has lived in the West Bank since 2005 after receiving a travel permit from the military to cross from Gaza to the West Bank. She too is being robbed of her degree at the last minute. She was detained at the Container checkpoint between Bethlehem and Ramallah after attending a job interview in Ramallah.
The 21 year-old was due to graduate before Christmas. On Wednesday night the "" blindfolded and handcuffed her, loaded her into a military jeep and drove her from Bethlehem to Gaza, despite assurances by the Israeli Military Legal Advisor's office that she would not be deported before an attorney from Gisha (an Israeli NGO working to protect Palestinians' freedom of movement) had the opportunity to petition the Israeli court for her return to classes in Bethlehem. When they'd crossed the border the world's most moral army dumped Berlanty in the darkness late at night and told her: "You are in Gaza." "Since 2005, I refrained from visiting my family in Gaza for fear that I would not be permitted to return to my studies in the West Bank," Berlanty told Gisha on her mobile phone before the soldiers confiscated it. "Now, just two months before graduation, I was arrested and taken to Gaza in the middle of the night, with no way to finish my degree." Bethlehem University wants to mobilize people from around the world to protest. Who better to contact, I thought, than the Palestinian ambassador in London, Professor Manuel Hassassian, who happens to be a former vice-president of that excellent seat of learning? "Have you contacted the Israeli ambassador for an explanation to this outrage?" I emailed him. Next day, having heard nothing, I emailed again: "Update… She has been removed to Gaza blindfolded and handcuffed! What is the Embassy doing about this please?" Another 24 hours have gone by and the silence is deafening. Still, it's not unusual for the Palestinian embassy to be fast asleep, out to lunch or off on holiday and no-one covering. I had of course simultaneously emailed the Israeli ambassador Ron Prosor asking him, please, to make enquiries. "On the face of it, this seems a senseless outrage. The student concerned has, I believe, just started her final year. I wonder what Mr Prosor or Mr Netanyahu would say if the education of their sons and daughters or grandchildren was disrupted in this manner." And next day, having heard nothing, I sent the same update about Berlanty being blindfolded and handcuffed. Another 24 hours have passed… silence here too; not even the courtesy of an acknowledgement from Israel's press office, which usually responds like lightning to anything with news value. If this had been a Jewish girl deprived of her university degree and life chances Israeli embassies around the world would be instantly on the warpath hurling accusations of religious hatred and anti-semitism. But it's the Jewish state screwing up the young life of a Christian, so that's alright then. This content has passed through fivefilters.org. |
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an African perspective Temba A Nolutshungu I first became aware of the existence of the Berlin Wall, without appreciating its political significance, soon after its construction in 1961. In the early 1960s I was cutting my political teeth, becoming aware of the forces that rule the world. The all-pervasive apartheid system that was in force at the time inevitably politicised many of us. Around this same period socialism seemed to offer an appealing solution to the prevailing state of affairs in my home country. The South African government displayed a systematic and deep-seated hatred of communism and this was manifest on an almost daily basis in propaganda generated by the communications network at the disposal of the various state organs. This anti-communist sentiment was echoed in the relatively free press, which was owned and run by whites. So for us blacks the equation was simple. The oppressors, who had inflicted so much suffering on our people, hated communism. So what the enemy hated had to be good for us, the oppressed people. After all, communism was about a classless society and how the people shared everything. As I was maturing politically, I immersed myself in a thorough study of the philosophy of communism. Simultaneously, I began asking myself questions related to how communism worked in practice. I found it hard to come up with credible answers. And the lack of answers stimulated my curiosity. I learnt of the Berlin Wall, which had been built by the East German government to keep people living inside the workers' paradise - communist East Germany - from fleeing to the capitalist West, which typified man's exploitation of his fellow man. Before the construction of the wall in 1961, East Germany had experienced a dramatic loss of population to the West, including thousands of educated young people: a brain drain of major proportions. After the wall was built, with its guard towers, trenches and checkpoints, several thousand individuals risked death in their attempts to cross into West Berlin. I found it disturbing that the refugees were people from all walks of life: artists, scientists, students, and professionals among others. They seemed not to be deterred by the threat of death, as they sought to cross the wall in defiance of East German law. I began to perceive the Berlin Wall as symptomatic of the merits or demerits of the two contrasting systems, capitalist democracy and communist dictatorship ('the dictatorship of the proletariat'). After the Second World War, capitalist West Germany gradually grew into the second biggest economy in the world, while East Germany seemed stuck in the economic doldrums. West Germany was a free democratic country, while East Germany was clearly a police state. I cast my precocious mind on South Korea and North Korea. The same scenario was so patently obvious. As with Germany: the same people, same culture, same language, and relatives on both sides of the divide. But such glaring incompatibilities! No wonder – I realised – the desperate attempts of individuals to flee from the communist grip of the North to the capitalist democracy of the South needed closer study. In Africa, most of the liberation movements, which sought to overthrow repressive European colonialism by force, embraced variations of communism or socialism. Once in power, and transformed into political parties, these movements implemented economic policies informed by a socialist perspective. It gradually became clear that these policies were very much to the detriment of the welfare of their people. But for quite a while the vision of the nirvana that socialism would bring, along with an awareness of the manifest injustices of the colonial past (which were blamed largely upon capitalist interests), bought the system time and caused people to put up with the consequent suffering. The seductive vision of popular ownership of the means of production through the medium of the state appealed to many, and still does in some circles within South Africa. It was only with experience that it became clear to me that the nationalisation of productive assets doesn't actually mean that they are owned and controlled by either the proletariat or the people and operated for their collective benefit. They are owned, controlled and managed by the state, which in reality means the elites or elite factions which wield power and control the state. It gradually became apparent that, as with East Germany and North Korea and other countries of communist persuasion, the leadership of these African socialist states was the only class to derive any real benefits from the policies of collectivisation. As in the case of East Germany, it eventually transpired that attempts to impose communist systems in Africa were economically unsustainable, politically tyrannical and morally bankrupt. As I began to subject the apartheid system to more careful scrutiny, it seemed to me that it was a system that had more in common with a communist state than with a free capitalist society. Apartheid controlled every facet of black people's lives from the cradle to the grave. Among other things, consistent with the policy of racial segregation, it decreed where black people could be born, where they could live, where they could carry out limited subsistence trade with all sorts of restrictive conditions, it denied them property rights, mandated where they could get the legislatively prescribed form of education, where they could work and what form of work they could do, which hospitals and amenities they could use, how and when they could move from place to place and even where they could be buried. In fact, blacks were effectively nationalised by the apartheid government. Apartheid, a ubiquitous and omnipotent system, was, like its communist cousins, economically unsustainable, politically tyrannical and morally reprehensible; but, as with communism, the few who benefited vehemently rejected this characterisation of the system. For me, then, the fall of the Berlin Wall brought home some very important truths: that people value freedom above all other ideologies; that the system that fails to acknowledge this definitive attribute of human nature will eventually succumb to pressure, however long that might take; that the system that operates on the basis of what human nature is and not what it ought to be will unleash the spirit of enterprise that runs across all cultures and all nations. This is encapsulated in the words of Svetlana Alliluyeva, Stalin's daughter who said, "It is human nature that rules the world, not governments and regimes". Communism is corrosive of human freedom. In its zeal to redistribute resources, abolish private ownership of the means of production and re-engineer the structure of society, it necessarily resorts to the use of force. It subsequently denies individuals the freedom to act in their own best interests and it denies them the fruits of their own labour and initiative. It is not surprising therefore that communist leaders such as Stalin, Mao Ze Dong, Pol Pot, Eric Honecker, Nikolai Ceauscescu and many, many others were obliged to rely so much on coercion, violence and an apparatus of spies to maintain their regimes, in the process slaughtering millions of their own people. Lenin, using a now infamous metaphor, reminded his followers that an omelette cannot be made without breaking eggs. My understanding of the history of the Berlin Wall, the circumstances surrounding its historic breach on 9 November 1989 and its subsequent destruction by popular demand has fundamentally contributed to my own ideological metamorphosis. For me, the history of the Wall symbolises the truth that a free society, based on private ownership of the means of production, best delivers what people want. May I add that, for Africans, faced with a plethora of trade barriers and protectionist measures which impede the free flow of their products to Europe, it may seem that, while the Wall has gone, the fortress mentality still lives on in Europe in another guise. The Berlin Wall of tariff protection impedes the free flow of mainly agricultural, but also other African products, from reaching the European markets. That wall should also be broken down. Credit: Temba A Nolutshungu [A director of the Free Market Foundation, South Africa, an affiliate of www.AfricanLiberty.org. The views expressed in the article are his own. ]
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If you have a fascination with Mars, and haven't yet read Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars series yet, you are in for a huge treat. Red Mars, Green Mars, Blue Mars.
REALLY AMAZING, MYSTERIOUS AND INSPIRING!
Since I live in The Knobs of central Kentucky, it's nice to see that Mars has knobs too. Although with fewer trees. rb
Very interesting. But, there only one thing that I want to see in HD photos, is the martian face.
I don't think those are false colors.. pict #3: "The sands appear blueish because of their basaltic composition" .. :)
Amazing, I really had no Idea Mars was so beautiful and so so different to how I Imagined!
Show us the good stuff, like the ruins...from our past heritage there.
When are we clarifying the REAL COLORS IN MARS ?
Good work, even for the northern mexico college of nogales.
Very nice. So nice, indeed, to see something which mankind hasn't screwed up! Luckily beyond our reach...
Nice to know my mural of Mars in 1982 was not too far off in my imagination. Except I added a Mirage o'trees. You can hope.
Out of this world!
Simply stunning pictures.
The excitement of the discovered and the anticipation of the adventure to come ... that's what I'm experiencing now.
I don't understand. There doesn't seem to be anything there. Why not focus our time and money on Titan or a similar body with some possibilities for life?
Beautiful pics btw.
#49: because it's so much easier and cheaper and quicker to send things to Mars...
50 comments and no-one has attributed this to their God yet?
Beautiful pics, but kind of depressing that it's nearly 2010 and man has yet to go further than our moon.
Whoa.
That's amazing, not at all how I imagined the surface of the planet.
On a side note, why false color?
Instantly altered my perception in a very profound way...
#49: Just because a planet doesn't have stellar chances for life doesn't mean there aren't other things to learn there. Mars is of huge geologic interest, and can also teach us a lot about atmospheric interactions. These things are valuable, too. The more information we can gather about planetary evolution, the better we can understand our own planet, and how and why life first emerged here.
Shrinking dunes on Mars? Must be (Mars) Global Warming.
This is really amazing, i've never seen pictures from another planet like this.
Wow absolutely fantastic work. Like someone said real modern artists and real modern art here haha!
This is the one of the few posts at BigPIcture that have actually make me gasp out loud/start laughing in wonder, and Im not easily moved. Everything on Earth seems so petty when you see something like this!
Sign me up, Im ready to build another world on mars!
Two words...thank you!
Beam me down Scotty!
Phasers on stun.
These photos are amazing. I just wish Carl Sagan could see them.
In the future, please state the field of view of the individual image, or publish a distance scale along the side of the photos.
Wow.
When my dad was a kid, all the little kids wanted to be astronauts. For Pete's sake, we landed on the moon with slide rules! When he was in high school and college, these photos would have been as drool-worthy as a playboy. He truly believed there was going to be a major space station and he might end up living on it. Whatever happened? Now technology has advanced to the point we can take these way neato photos and we're like, meh. I dunno -- seeing these pics makes me wistful for the emotional energy, the wild-crazy hopes and dreams shared by whole countries of people. My dad got to dream of being Buck Rogers. Now kids get to dream of being cop-hating, drug-laden rap stars *sigh*
Hello new desktop images. I can't decide which to use so I think I'll let Win 7 rotate them. Amazing place.
I don't know any sci-fi movie that showed such beauty. Gorgeous and so different.
its so amazing,WOW.stunning pictures
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my god you are very great and beutifull and kind
Indescribable, uncontainable,
You placed the stars in the sky and You know them by name.
You are amazing God
All powerful, untameable,
Awestruck we fall to our knees as we humbly proclaim
You are amazing God !!!
Wonderful images giving us wonderful new knowledge, but I'm personally waiting for over head photos of the inhabitants of another earth-like planet. Maybe then we'll forever suppress ideas such as "Subhanallah".
These are seriously the coolest pics I have ever seen. This is a whole different world. It simply is amazing that things can be captured so clearly.
Fantastic keep up all your good work , SFJ Cody.
Yann Arthus-Bertrand should go to Mars and make pictures..
SubhanAllah,
Absolutely mindblowing to see such detailed pictures
Completely untouched world. Thanks for sharing with us
Awsome! Thanks for sharing.
Regards fom Ecuador, SouthAmerica.
looks good for pictures..... but would not want to live there .... Thank god for putting me on Earth
Totally amazing! Wondrous beauty!
Is it me, or do several pictures mimic the beauty in the depth of the seas?
great to learn about google earth 5
subhanallah
I want to live there. It's gorgeous and somewhat creepy.
The "Dust Devils" are the Martians... Genies
The picture quality is amazing, and I definitely encourage space programmes, but to be honest, I think Mars looks pretty disgusting.
#51: You missed the muslim from #1. And yes, I do attribute this to "my" God, the creator of the universe, Jesus Christ specifically. Literally *glorious* images.
Re. 74: argh, see pic 7 and 9!
Btw, love the "liveness" of the images captured in #6 and 21 - the avalanche and dust devil in action!
Great collection!!!!
I do not wish to go, but I could name a few politicians I would recommend.
Breathtaking! So spectacular in so many different ways!
If only we could focus humanity's efforts on exploring such a place, rather than finding new and better ways of killing ourselves.
Imagine the 'Defense' budget (thirty times bigger than NASA's!) applied to Mars exploration. Oh, the things we would find.
where is "the face" ?
Another reminder that art and science do not have to be independent, separate pursuits... daVinci would approve. Mars is a fantastic place, the photos are amazing!
Thank you for sharing these wonderful photos of Mars,
Imagine living on Mars and being able to look at Mother Earth and all it's beauty
Sure it's beautiful!! so let's spread this cancer that we call Humanity to Mars and waste it like we perfectly do with Earth...
A waste of money when people are dying of starvation here on earth.
Beautiful...but a little depressing; there are hundreds of billions of galaxies, each galaxy with hundreds of billions of stars, and each star likely with multiple planets, meaning that we've got, say, 2x10^24 planets to explore...but silly political and religious bickering leaves us still decades away from making the massive leap to even the very closest, most hospitable one we know.
Just finished re-reading Red Mars and Green Mars. I can almost see Coyote driving his boulder car down there. Shigata ga nai.
#92 It's not waste. Something good can come from this. Some day we might even have to leave earth for some reason.
True waste is USA's war and military spendings. That money could be used on solving a lot of problems in this planet right now. Allthough I'm not sure if it should be used on starving africans. They just can't get their shit together no matter what you give them or what you do. Hopeless.
These all photos are really amazing.
Awesome bics but with a scale for each pic it would be a lot better
I echo an earlier comment.... I'm so sorry Carl Sagan isn't alive to see these photos... he was obsessed with Mars. I took his class while at Cornell. The license plates on his car read Demos and Phobos... the Martian moons. Great photos....there had to be water there... it looks like part of the western US from a plane.
Humans need to look and not touch. Going there will just screw it all up like we do everything we come in contact with.
Pastor Keith, aim your complaints against flooded military spending budgets rather than the trickle that is NASA.
Scotty (Comment # 7) volunteered himself for a one-way trip. I second that declaration. I would go at a drop of a hat! Amazing pictures! Once we do land there, there will be life on Mars: us!
Wish my telescopes could get that close. Almost like looking at a long lost home. The diversity! Had to once be inhabited. After were gone our earth will look diverse too, but very different due to it's closer orbit with the sun.
Surprised someone hasn't made that stupid claim " It was done in a studio"
Wonder if they still think we never went to the moon? Idiots!
Thanks for the images, and education. Lightspeedsquared
Clear and Dark Please
i really liked the pictures because there were so many of them but why don't they show the alien buildings?
Uskomattoman upeita kuvia. Ja ajatelkaa mist: Marsista:
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Surprising pictures. And think from where: Mars!
These are some cool pics, I've never seen or imagined Mars like this before. But Earth's beauty FAR surpasses Mars. By a long shot. I don't know why anyone would ever want to go to Mars.
#21: We have wormsign!!!!
Spectacular and Mind blowing pictures. To me this proves there is definitely a higher power (GOD) that created this entire universe. All praise to God for such wonderful creations!
ha, you beat me to it Carbon (#94). i just finished reading the MarsTrilogy too. i feel like ive been there after reading it, Shigata ga nai indeed!
Incredible that we've come so far that we're able to get pics like this of another world. Sad, too, that people still feel compelled to attribute it all to god, as if mankind isn't smart enough or capable enough on our own. Isn't it time to just accept that god didn't make man, but man instead made god? We created the idea of god from our primitive fear of death. Now we can high-res the surface of another world. The time has come to accept that science, not ancient beliefs in deities, is where our future lies.
Sublime, in the truest sense of the word. This is the nearest we can come to understanding the sense of newness and wonder which was experienced by Europeans and American explorers as they ventured into the parts of our world which were unknown to them prior to the twentieth century.
I've waited all my life to see and hear other humans reporting back from Mars, but, at 44 years old, I now have to accept that it will not happen in my time.
Yeah... come-on lets go and screw up the Mars.
WAU, those photos are so beautiful!! So, I havent need to travel to Mars anymore.... = )
The first photo looked like a tattoo!
Guaou! It is so nice that the senses get very clear and quiet.
dear #62,
that sounds nice and everything but you're completely romanticising what was essentially a government military program and an important episode in the incredibly short-sighted sabre-raddling of the Cold War, in which both superpowers threw money they didn't have and had no business spending even if they did on grandiose demonstrations of might & ability, which meant not only the tit-for-tat of dancing in space, but real wars with real people dying real deaths (ie afghanistan circa 70s)--from the same budgets, the same spreadsheets. getting "regular" citizens to fall in love with the space race was just part of sealing the deal in the culture at large.
this isn't to say that i am not fascinated by space as a concept or haven't read my bradbury and my asimov and drooled at the mere thought of "being Buck Rodgers," but you have to address the fact that you are completely decontextualising how & why this knowledge is being produced. it is not now and never was innocent, and like all science, the military and thus the government are the first to demand the research and certainly the first to reap its benefits, ever planning future violent escapades to prove their necessity and little else.
what i'm trying to say is simple: robots aren't just fun classroom projects, NASA, and Mythbusters; they are also remote-controlled drones killing people on US orders in other countries. and this is simply to inject a dose of reality to the utopic humanism of the science enthusiast. rather: not only am i saying this to make the obvious point that science does "good AND bad things," but that--wait for it--it may just in fact be doing harm _first & foremost_ and subsequently covering its ass in discourse with the supposed "good" that it does for us all (implicitly meaning good FOR specific kinds of people who can reap the benefits of being paid attention to by the state as a class/race).
i mean, this is really not that different from when "whole countries" get wrapped up in the "fun" of a good old "foreign war". which is something absolutely nobody would have doubted enjoying for the pure sake of enjoying 50+ years ago, by the way; only now can we pretend that our enjoyment has nothing to do with buying into nationalistic rhetoric/ideologies and that our media voyeurism is completely justified by some complex "just war" logic.
so in conclusion, my dear madams & sirs, the space race always already meant the "us vs them" nationalism and practically racism of the Cold War, just part of the game of selling citizens on the absolutely insane projects our governments were invested in at the time against a "big bad enemy".
PS: your final comment--"kids just want to be cop-hating drug-laden rap singers"--is so ignorant and so utterly racist that i cannot believe any self-respecting person would throw that into the discussion as if it had any meaning that wasn't simply provocative and baiting. think about what you are saying honestly and you'll realise why that has nothing, NOTHING to do with the way "kids are today" and that what you're saying is a cop-out to buttress and already-weak argument. why might certain people dislike cops, #62? i wonder. maybe you have lived a comfortable enough life free from police harassment & profiling that such a thing seems utterly absurd to you. i hope one day you can realise that what you're saying is incredibly privileged and does fundamentally reveal your mentality/outlook on these things in general, and why you made a similarly weak-kneed argument in regards to the space program.
cheers!
What an amazing photos!!! I'm stunned!!!
To #39 (Marcel):
You can see HiRISE's picture of the "mars face" on wikipedia. Though it doesn't look much like a face when the picture is taken in high definition.
It's just like Tabias in the tub!
These are some of the most amazing pictures I've ever seen. Thank you so much!
To find out the resolution and scale for each photo, click on the "more" link provided with each description.
#115 Dear parkbench, thank you for your intelligent and calm comment. with which I totally agree.May I sit next to you..?
I lived there.... once.
Pretty soon Google will have a new program called Google Mars. Beautiful pictures. I can't believe the clarity of them all. Well done.
Does our cells and inner structures look like this too?
Amazing!
Dust Devil? Hmmm...
What? no little Martians? aww nuts, I'm not going then.
I worked in the sub contractor industry way back when
Friendship, Freedom, and Gemini were first launched
to go to the Moom, etc.
I can see John Carter rescuing Dejah Thoris form here!
Beautiful!!
Percival Lowell thought that there were canal-like features on Mars, some of the marks left by the Dust Devils look similar to the gigantic marks, (He called them canals), that Lowell may have seen way back then. Is it possible that there may be some type of much larger but very rare atmospheric phenomenon like tornado's or even Hurricanes? If so, then the markings that Lowell saw might have been made by unknown ,(Mars), weather conditions that occur on a large geologic time scale. The similarity between his drawings and those imaged by our probes is slight, but still, we do not know the atmospheric conditions well enough yet to say.
Such wonderful photograph of the distant world Mars, just hope we go there in my life time.
Picture 13.The barchan looks like it has plants growing on it...
How do we see the close-up pictures as seen in this photo-essay? The jpgs on arizona.edu show the one small area shown here enlarged, but there is no way to zoom in to explore other areas on them. For example, the avalanche shown here and on the main avalanches page is 2-3 times as large as it is on the non map projected jpgs. There is another avalanche in that overall jpg I would love to see just as closely. In fact, there are other features in the all photo's I would love to look as just as closely. Anyone know where to find those pics?
Fantastic!
OMG...stunning pictures of Mars
What a rush! These are really fantastic pictures!!