XPost: sci.space.policy, sci.physics   
   From: fjmccall@gmail.com   
      
   Serigo  wrote:   
      
   And argument that things that rovers and probes have actually found   
   don't actually exist...   
      
   >On 10/16/2016 7:17 PM, Fred J. McCall wrote:   
   >> jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> In sci.physics Jeff Findley  wrote:   
   >>>> In article , jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com   
   >>>> says...   
   >>>>>   
   >   
   >>>>> Yes, just keep sending reactors until you have enough power, however   
   >>>>> that is not going to be cheap.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Well, we've moved from "not possible" to "possible but not cheap".   
   >>>> Progress!   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Jeff   
   >>>   
   >>> Who said "not possible"?   
   >>>   
   >>> It certainly wasn't me.   
   >>>   
   >>   
   >> Yet that's the attitude everyone hears you having,   
   >   
   >you do not speak for everyone, you speak to yourself.   
   >   
   >>   
   >>>   
   >>> The closest thing to "not possible" I've said is that the following   
   >>> are unknowns on Mars.   
   >>>   
   >>> If water is available in quantity anywhere other than the poles.   
   >>>   
   >>   
   >> Not an unknown.  We know   
   >>.there are huge subsurface ice deposits   
   >> elsewhere than the poles.   
   >   
   >no, you dont know that.  it is only conjecture, not known.   
   >   
   >>   
   >>>   
   >>> If there are concentrated usefull mineral deposits in general and   
   >>>   
   >>   
   >> Not an unknown.  We know there's hematite and other iron ores.   
   >   
   >Cite?  where is your hematite mine ?   
   >   
   >iron makes the planet red, but it is not know of any concentrated   
   >mineral deposits.   
   >   
   >>   
   >>>   
   >>> concentrated calcium deposits in particular as all the concentrated   
   >>> calcium deposits on Earth are the result of biology.   
   >>>   
   >>   
   >> Not an unknown.  Calcium concentrations and minerals such as dolomite   
   >> and marble are one of the indications on Mars that there was surface   
   >> water.   
   >   
   >Cite ?   
   >   
   >   
      
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