Google Mars

[Sheeplovr]

<p>anybody notice the cartoon on google today </p><p>I clicked on it to see what it's about and <a href="http://www.google.com/mars/" target="_self">check this out</a>&nbsp;</p><p>that's pretty cool&nbsp;</p>

[suggums]

<p>jerry, get to work.</p><p>show me potato salad!&nbsp;</p>

[Mike Teacher]

<p>Sheep, this was the kind of thing that sent me screaming 'Hooray' n the hallways of my schools, often emptying out other classes wondering why the science teacher dwon the hall was screaming 'Yes! You noticed!' anyway...</p><p>Today is Percival Lowells birthday. More then any single person; Lowell turned a red moving dot in the sky into an entire zeitgeist of horror terrer, fear and loathing about the red planet.</p><p>Long story short, he had a really good telescope and a lot of time on his hands, so he made what were some of the most detailed drawings of what he saw. This is where it gets weird [enter Jerry/Jelane/whatever the name is].</p><p>He got the major surface feature right, many are named from his drawings, but he also saw what would eventually be interpretated as 'Canals'. He saw a vast, complex intricate network of interconnecting lines on the surface, and his/others thinking went something like this:</p><p>You can see canals all over the planet. Straight lined ones too....<br />That means there must be someone/something down there that made the canals....<br />That mean Mars must be inhabited my a species at least smart/technologically saavy enough to re-work the very surface of the planet...</p><p>That meant; for some; Mars might be populated by advanced creatures in cities connected by these canals that might set there sights on another world, like ours.</p><p>And when the telescopes got a bit better, his canal network was seen to be pretty much of his imagination, or weird optics plays tricks of the light, or something else.</p><p>=</p><p>In short, someone at Google digs Lowell, its his birthday, and a Mars Orbiter days ago succesfully did a de-orbit maneuveur that ended in failure 2 out of 4 times in the past. Plus Enceladus seems to be spouting liquid water; all in all a big week for the solar system.</p><p>=</p><p><img src="http://members.aol.com/miketeachr/mars" border="0" /></p><p>One of his canal drawings</p>

[ShelleBink]

looks like a tie dye gone awry<br />

[Bulldogcakes]

When do we start putting people there? I bet you can get some land real cheap up there. Even cheaper than Florida. <br />

[Death Metal Moe]

<p>HEY!&nbsp; I can see my car!</p><p>That old gag.</p>

[iscream22]

Yeah, i heard about that on &quot;Coast To Coast&quot;.

[JustJon]

Actually, Mike, the cartoon was because Google unveiled Google Mars at the beginning of this week.&nbsp; They may have chose to unveil it in time for his birthday, but the cartoon is not about the cartographer.<br />

[Mike Teacher]

it actually said the words 'percival lowell' when you held your cursor over the image. maybe its about google mars, but a cartoon that has a guy looking at mars with the words 'precival lowell' popping up with the cursor over it...

[JustJon]

<p>Ah.&nbsp; I didn't have any reason to mouse over it.</p><p><a href="http://www.google.com/holidaylogos.html" target="_blank">But I stand corrected</a><br /></p>

[Sheeplovr]

<p><span class="postbody">heep, this was the kind of thing that sent me
screaming 'Hooray' n the hallways of my schools, often emptying out
other classes wondering why the science teacher dwon the hall was
screaming 'Yes! You noticed!' anyway..</span></p><p>and it's the kinda thing that gets me called dork and I have to sit alone at lucnh anyway....</p><p>&nbsp;</p>