From: Don Ledger <dledger.nul>
Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2008 17:39:45 -0300
Archived: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 08:27:30 -0400
Subject: Re: Surprise! Water On Mars


>From: John Rimmer <j.rimmer.nul>
>To: <ufoupdates.nul>
>Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2008 12:37:53 +0100
>Subject: Re: Surprise! Water On Mars

>>From: James Horak <jchorak7441.nul>
>>To: ufoupdates.nul
>>Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2008 05:44:57 -0700 (PDT)
>>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.

>As I asked before, to a resounding silence, what happened to them?

They were filled in John; land reclaimation. Its diameter is only
4,218 miles so there's not much left to go around when you take
away the ice caps. Progress...


Don Ledger



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