Friday, March 26, 2004

Color Me Unimpressed

Russell Roberts, posting at Marginal Revolution, has been reading some of the articles touting NASA’s “discovery” that Mars was supposedly, at some period in time, a vast watery planet.  This comment of Roberts sums up my thoughts on the heralding to date.

"Love that alliteration—the shoreline of a salty sea. It conjures up images of beachcombers and cottages or at least seashells and seaweed with terns turning in the sunlight. Seems like a bit of a stretch. NASA thinks they’ve found not just moisture, not just a few molecules of H2O but a sea with rocks drenched with salty spray, rocks lovingly shaped by streaming water. Pardon my skepticism, but it seems that NASA has just a bit of interest in stretching the results. Notice that even Reuters uses the word “might."

Posted by John Venlet on 03/26 at 08:21 AM
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