From: James Horak <jchorak7441.nul>
Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2008 05:44:57 -0700 (PDT)
Archived: Sun, 10 Aug 2008 06:30:06 -0400
Subject: Re: Surprise! Water On Mars


>From: Don Ledger <dledger.nul>
>To:  ufoupdates.nul
>Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2008 13:49:25 -0300
>Subject: Re: Surprise! Water On Mars


>Not to be a smart ass but the original canal was shortened from
>the Italian word canali first coined by Giovanni Schiaparelli. It
>means means channels but was shortened to the English canals.
>here is photo evidence of what appear to be short damp channels
>[stains] on sloped terrain on Mars-though these are yet to be
>proven to be water stains.

>As for canals; where's the locks, where's the gondolas and the
>singing gondoliers.

>Absolutely no proof, not even a desicated mandolin.


Mr. Ledger, there is a reason you might discern for why, where I
could, I place quotation marks around "canals". This was not my
choice of label but that of most prominant astronomers of the
19th century who even went so far as to chart and map those
"canals".

You have any idea why they did this? They did this because the
view of what they saw in their day was constant. Aberrations, be
they mirages or "optical illusions" are not.

Not aiming this at you, sir, for I do well regard your
contributions (well, most) but just as those gentlemen in the
19th century, the subject of the "canals" was not ridiculed by
any that could read.

It shouldn't be today by any that can read and have regard enough
to research before they feel obliged to comment.

In fact, one of the elements that provoked such hysteria among
audiences of the radio broadcast of War of the Worlds was
references to those "canals".

Perhaps that's one reason for the denial we see here among so
many. The mix of science fiction and the known comes just to
close to their brittle psyche.

And learn this, sir, the droning out of some abstraction of the
word "proof" to stymie further discussion when we all are in such
an incomplete discovery of context, represents nothing more than
an unwillingness to examine history and to utilize such
scientific tools as probability.

This tactic I had hoped you were above.


JCH



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