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Apr 14 2010, 11:13 AM
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Apr 23 2010, 09:42 PM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8783 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
Yeah...if there's anything like a consistent truism in planetary exploration it's that if we expect A, admit that B is possible, what we actually find is X...
-------------------- A few will take this knowledge and use this power of a dream realized as a force for change, an impetus for further discovery to make less ancient dreams real.
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Apr 23 2010, 10:58 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 699 Joined: 3-December 04 From: Boulder, Colorado, USA Member No.: 117 |
And then of course we find A somewhere else entirely. It's been said that all hypothesized solar system phenomena turn out to be real, just not necessarily on the worlds where they were first proposed. Thus we find Percival Lowell's canals on Europa, not Mars; Transient Lunar Phenomena on Io, not our own moon; lakes of exotic liquid on Titan, not Triton; high-albedo volcanic plains on Mercury, not our Moon, and so on.
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