Re: For vested interest and national interest, NASA conceals most of the micrographs of Phoenix

professorgunz wrote:
Matt wrote:
On Jul 5, 10:36 pm, Lin Liangtai <lin440...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
For vested interest and "national interest", NASA is trying to conceal
most of the micrographs taken by Mars Lander Phoenix.


I've avoided responding to this gentleman's posts, which argue the
absurd notion that everywhere NASA has explored Mars it's found
fossils. (That implies the entire planet is essentially covered with
them). I can't resist, however, tweaking the notion that NASA would
conceal such evidence. Such evidence would ensure a major increase in
NASA's budget for robotic and human exploration of Mars, perhaps for
for decades to come. Nor would concealment be in the national
interest: the United States would have scored the greatest scientific
coup of all time. NASA held a press conference to discuss possible
(disputed) evidence for Martian life in a meteorite: the airwaves and
the internet would be filled 24/7 with NASA scientists and
spokespeople if definite Martian fossils ever turned up.
The absence of a NASA response reinforces the notion that, if all the
interested geologists on Earth have looked at these pictures and
noticed no fossils, they are probably right.

I confess (I will deny it if confronted) that I love to browse this sort of stuff. I don't believe it for any number of reasons, both biological and simply logical without the "bio-," but it is a lot of fun to try to see what someone else thinks they are seeing. But in the case of these fossil Martian body parts, for the most part, I can't see a bloody thing. Fossilized lymph nodes lying around? What would that even _look_ like? How on Earth (or Mars) could you tell? And if you can preserve tings like loose lymph nodes, blood vessels, and random lonely Haversian canals, wouldn't the _bones_ be preserved?


I picked up on the lymph nodes too. I hope the frozen sections came out OK. Ditto the Haversian canals.
Back when they advertised cigarettes on television, there was a commercial for Viceroy cigarettes. The patient was being shown a variety of Rorschach blots. Every one was viewed as a man doing something "...and smoking a Viceroy".
"I'm afraid" the psychiatrist said, with a voice right out of central casting for a Freud biography, "...you hef a feexation on Viceroy Longks!"
"I don't know," said the patient, "they're YOUR Viceroy pictures!"

Steve
Steve



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