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."

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