Life out there
Feeling hot and humid and there’s no water from your faucet?
Here’s the solution: Go get a spacesuit and zoom to Mars!
This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image shows Mars in 2005.
Scientists reported on Monday, May 22, that the Mars rover Spirit has uncovered the strongest evidence yet that ancient Mars was wetter than previously thought.
The robot analyzed a patch of soil in Gusev Crater and found it was unusually rich in silica. Scientists said the presence of water was necessary to produce such a large silica deposit.
“This is a remarkable discovery,” principal investigator Steve Squyres of Cornell University said in a statement. “It makes you wonder what else is still out there.”
The latest find is compelling because of the high silica content, researchers said, raising the possibility that conditions may have been favorable for the emergence of primitive life.
See? There’s even the chance of a life, even primitive, in Mars. Here in our un-primitive planet, living life is like being inside a microwave oven – we’re toasting ourselves to death, no thanks to global warming!
Better primitive life than a toasted one. So, wanna join in my Mars expedition?
The author in spacesuit, ready for Mars trip!
Chinky-eyed ‘rabbits’ in China
The Chinese can’t take it anymore! They want more, more, more! No, not more jobs, or more wealth.
No, not that. In a country already bursting to the seams with more than a billion people, the Chinese just want … MORE BABIES!
Pursuant to a directive from the People’s Ministry for Fetal Records, Chinese hospitals now mark pregnant women to indicate whether they are carrying a baby duck, rabbit, house, seal, or “other.” Actually, these preggies show color paintings on their bellies during a body painting contest held for pregnant women at a hospital in Haikou, south China’s Hainan province on Aug.7, 2006.
On Monday, police clashed violently with protesters in southern China as thousands of angry farmers rioted over the nation’s controversial “one-child” family planning policies.
Angry farmers attacked four township governments in Guangxi province on Friday and Saturday, with police and protesters clashing in at least one demonstration, they said.
The demonstrations occurred after local governments this month dispatched “family planning work teams” to levy fines on families that were violating government population control policies, they said.
One woman in Shapi township, speaking on condition of anonymity, said up to 20,000 people had gathered and rioted there on Saturday, hurling rocks, breaking windows and torching public property.
“The farmers were really angry because the family planning team was going around to homes and making farmers pay fines if they had too many kids,” the woman said.
“If the farmers had no money they took things from them. Property with value they confiscated, things with no value they destroyed.”
The work teams confiscated everything from livestock, to electronic goods and household items such as pots and pans and teapots, according to the woman and other accounts by locals posted on the Internet.
The Chinese women must be the world’s hottest lovers! They must be like rabbits! They love to procreate so much that their government even had to enact a draconian law to stop them from raising more than one child per family.
Caption:
Pursuant to a directive from the People’s Ministry for Fetal Records, Chinese hospitals now mark pregnant women to indicate whether they are carrying a baby duck, rabbit, house, seal, or “other.” Actually, these preggies show color paintings on their bellies during a body painting contest held for pregnant women at a hospital in Haikou, south China’s Hainan province on Aug.7, 2006.
Armored flies, but dying nevertheless
They’re dying like flies out there — despite their armor, their weapons and their being the warriors from the world’s only superpower.
As of Monday, May 21, 2007, at least 3,422 members of the U.S. military have already died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. The figure includes seven military civilians.
At least 2,780 died as a result of hostile action, according to the military’s numbers.
The figure is more than those who died in September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the Twin Towers in New York and the Pentagon. And 9/11 was the primary reason why the US went to war in Iraq.
It just doesn’t make sense – sacrificing so many precious young lives, for what? For democracy in Iraq? Bullsweat! There can never be democracy in that blighted land where people massacre each other almost every day.
The most advanced, the most powerful country in the world – and all it got to show is sheer stupidity!