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Post by brobear on Jan 1, 2021 16:40:43 GMT -5
www.imdb.com/name/nm0123194/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm Edgar Rice Burroughs ( 1875 - 1950 ). His father had been a major in the Union army during the Civil War. Edgar Rice Burroughs attended the Brown School then, due to a diphtheria epidemic, Miss Coolie's Maplehurst School for Girls, then the Harvard School, Phillips Andover and the Michigan Military Academy. He was a mediocre student and flunked his examination for West Point. He worked a variety of jobs all over the country: a cowboy in Idaho, a gold miner in Oregon, a railroad policeman in Utah, a department manager for Sears Roebuck in Chicago. He published "A Princess of Mars" under the title "Under the Moons of Mars" in six parts between February and July of 1912. The same "All-Story Magazine" put out his immediately successful "Tarzan of the Apes" in October of that year. Two years later the hardback book appeared, and on January 27, 1918, the movie opened on Broadway starring Elmo Lincoln as Tarzan. It was one of the first movies to gross over $1,000,000. Burroughs was able to move his family to the San Fernando Valley in 1919, converting a huge estate into Tarzana Ranch. He was in Pearl Harbor December 7, 1941 and remained in Hawaii as a war correspondent. Afterward he returned home with a heart condition. On March 19, 1950, alone in his home after reading the Sunday comics in bed, he died. By then he had written 91 novels, 26 of which were about Tarzan. The man whose books have sold hundreds of millions of copies in over thirty languages once said "I write to escape ... to escape poverty".
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Post by brobear on Jan 1, 2021 23:36:12 GMT -5
MARS will not much longer be that neighbor who is a stranger to us. Space stations, the moon, and Mars will all be commonplace to some people before 2030. www.military.com/space-force The U.S. Space Force is the 6th independent U.S. military service branch, tasked with missions and operations in the rapidly evolving space domain. As of June 2020, its headquarters has yet to be announced. Space Force was signed into law Dec. 20, 2019 as part of the 2020 National Defense Authorization Act. SpaceForce.mil went live shortly thereafter. On June 18, 2018, President Donald Trump directed the Pentagon to begin planning for a Space Force. The U.S. Space Force would be the first new military service in more than 70 years, following the establishment of the U.S. Air Force in 1947.
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Post by brobear on Jan 2, 2021 0:38:29 GMT -5
The Air Corps became a subordinate element of the Army Air Forces on 20 June 1941 and the United States Air Force became a separate military service on 18 September 1947. Given time, the United States Space Force will separate from the U.S. Air Force. I am amazed that more young men are not scrambling for the chance to be a part of this.
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Post by brobear on Jan 2, 2021 0:48:06 GMT -5
Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon were popular heroes long before any man went into space ( as I recall ).
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Post by brobear on Jan 3, 2021 7:52:40 GMT -5
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/12/201222141526.htm Fluvial mapping of Mars It took fifteen years of imaging and nearly three years of stitching the pieces together to create the largest image ever made, the 8-trillion-pixel mosaic of Mars' surface. Now, the first study to utilize the image in its entirety provides unprecedented insight into the ancient river systems that once covered the expansive plains in the planet's southern hemisphere. These three billion-year-old sedimentary rocks, like those in Earth's geologic record, could prove valuable targets for future exploration of past climates and tectonics on Mars.
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Post by brobear on Jan 4, 2021 8:18:55 GMT -5
www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/first-evidence-of-a-recently-active-volcano-on-mars?utm_source=dscfb&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=dscfb&fbclid=IwAR30Sii5_oRwS_uan31zsJWdKN7LLhGejJ0SNpfxfoP3m7QlPgLV0p97owQ First Evidence of a Recently Active Volcano on Mars A region on the Red Planet may still be volcanically active, melting ground ice and creating conditions favorable to life, astronomers say. The tallest mountain on any of the Solar System’s planets is Olympus Mons, a giant extinct volcano on Mars that is some 14 miles (or 21.9 kilometers) high. That’s about two and a half times the height of Mount Everest. This behemoth formed some 3 billion years ago when the Red Planet was peppered with volcanoes spewing vast quantities of magma across the Martian planes. Since then, Mars has cooled and become much less active. Indeed, a common view among planetary geologists is that today there are no active volcanoes on Mars. Now that view may have to change thanks to the work of David Horvath at the University of Arizona in Tucson and colleagues. This team has analyzed a region of Mars called Elysium Planitia which is pockmarked by a set of semi-parallel fissures called Cerberus Fossae. The team says that one of these fissures appears to be less than 200,000 years old — and possibly as young as 50,000 years old. That makes them the youngest volcanic features yet discovered on Mars. “This young age implies that if this deposit is of volcanic origin, then the Cerberus Fossae region may not be extinct and Mars may still be volcanically active today,” says Horvath and colleagues. That has significance for the possibility of liquid water there — and even the potential presence of life. First, some background. Planetary geologists have long thought that the Cerberus Fossae fissures must have formed in lava plains as they cooled and deformed. They can determine a rough age for these plains by counting the number of impact craters, which suggests the region is between 500,000 and 2.5 million years old — relatively young in Martian terms. But the team has found an even younger part of this region near a fissure known as the Cerberus Fossae mantling unit, which is a few tens of kilometers long. The team studied this region using visible light images from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and thermal infrared images from the Mars Odyssey spacecraft. These images suggest an eruption has spread lava over an area some 5 kilometers long, to a depth of about 10 centimeters. And the lack of craters suggests all this happened recently, perhaps just 50,000 years ago. In geological terms, that is brand new. “The Cerberus Fossae mantling unit is interpreted to be the youngest volcanic product discovered on Mars to date,” says Horvath and colleagues.
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Post by brobear on Jan 4, 2021 8:19:46 GMT -5
Olympus Mons, the largest volcano on Mars. (Source: NASA)
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Post by brobear on Jan 4, 2021 8:52:39 GMT -5
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Post by brobear on Jan 5, 2021 3:19:46 GMT -5
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Post by brobear on Jan 5, 2021 8:26:33 GMT -5
www.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/nation/2020/12/30/colonizing-mars-even-good-idea-you-cant-breathe-after-all/4091010001/?fbclid=IwAR2-0p_UBPeud3Z8AM1z81K9EwRbASYXY6JpzdoWJqd1tL00t4sewPV8UUw On a planet where you cannot breathe, is living on Mars the best idea? Elton John might have said it best in his iconic song, "Rocket Man" — "Mars ain't the kind of place to raise your kids." But despite the fact humankind has been unable to send anyone to another place in the universe besides the moon, there are still many with the hopes and expectation that we will become a multi-planetary species in the near future, starting with our red next-door neighbor. Besides just the different eating habits and living arrangements humans would have to get accustomed to if they lived on Mars, life would be very different from Earth, perhaps more environmentally friendly, because nearly everything would have to be recycled. But that might not be all that enticing to future colonists. "In a Martian colony, (the settlers) will have never not had water that was made from previous urine, and their entire world will be completely recycled and reused," Palmer said.
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Post by brobear on Jan 24, 2021 19:56:28 GMT -5
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Post by brobear on Jan 24, 2021 20:49:30 GMT -5
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Post by brobear on Jan 25, 2021 5:45:39 GMT -5
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Post by brobear on Feb 5, 2021 4:43:31 GMT -5
bigthink.com/surprising-science/oumuamua-light-sail?rebelltitem=2#rebelltitem2 Was ‘Oumuamua a rock or an alien scout? Harvard astronomer talks controversial hypothesis in new book. Harvard University astronomer Avi Loeb made headlines in 2018 when he suggested that the extra-solar object 'Oumuamua—which, after all, does mean "scout" in Hawaiian—was just such a craft sent to have a look at our solar system. Since then, if anything he's become even more convinced, and Loeb has just published his reasoning and other thoughts in a new book, "Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life beyond Earth."
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Post by brobear on Feb 9, 2021 7:33:25 GMT -5
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Post by King Kodiak on Feb 9, 2021 15:33:56 GMT -5
Replies #32, and #33: very interesting articles.
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Post by brobear on Feb 16, 2021 0:18:22 GMT -5
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Post by brobear on Feb 19, 2021 12:04:08 GMT -5
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/02/210218162028.htm Touchdown! NASA's Mars Perseverance rover safely lands on Red Planet The largest, most advanced rover NASA has sent to another world touched down on Mars Thursday, after a 203-day journey traversing 293 million miles (472 million kilometers). About the size of a car, the robotic geologist and astrobiologist will undergo several weeks of testing before it begins its two-year science investigation of Mars' Jezero Crater. A fundamental part of its mission is astrobiology, including the search for signs of ancient microbial life.
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Post by brobear on Feb 20, 2021 4:13:41 GMT -5
Qwaszx! If I were a young man, I would build a robot companion and go to Mars. Where is the pioneer spirit of our youth?
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Post by brobear on Feb 23, 2021 2:29:24 GMT -5
bigthink.com/surprising-science/mars-meteorite-water?rebelltitem=4#rebelltitem4 Water may naturally occur as rocky planets form, new study suggests The meteorite behind the new research, Black Beauty, is 4.45 billion years old. This means it is from right around the time when Mars formed. It contained intact, ancient water-bearing minerals. The research indicates later asteroid-impact effects that could only have occurred if water was already present.
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