Comments on: The Trees of Mars http://www.gmilburn.ca/2008/12/06/the-trees-of-mars/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-trees-of-mars Essays, Projects, and Distractions of Geoff Milburn Fri, 23 Jul 2010 03:09:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Geoff http://www.gmilburn.ca/2008/12/06/the-trees-of-mars/comment-page-/#comment-576 Geoff Fri, 16 Jan 2009 14:56:14 +0000 http://www.gmilburn.ca/?p=516#comment-576 Izmar - I 100% support the search for life on Mars. This is just an illustration of how we have to be very careful to not carry over our existing biases and assumptions into a completely new world. For instance, we're now sure Mars is "alive" in a sense - the question is now whether its geological and/or biological processes which are active. See this: http://www.sciam.com/podcast/episode.cfm?id=mars-is-alive-geologically-biologic-09-01-16 Izmar – I 100% support the search for life on Mars. This is just an illustration of how we have to be very careful to not carry over our existing biases and assumptions into a completely new world.

For instance, we’re now sure Mars is “alive” in a sense – the question is now whether its geological and/or biological processes which are active.

See this: http://www.sciam.com/podcast/episode.cfm?id=mars-is-alive-geologically-biologic-09-01-16

]]> By: Izmar http://www.gmilburn.ca/2008/12/06/the-trees-of-mars/comment-page-1/#comment-577 Izmar Fri, 16 Jan 2009 10:47:33 +0000 http://www.gmilburn.ca/?p=516#comment-577 I'm just a simple composer/producer of chillout music, and an amateur ethnobotanist, so I have only little professional knowledge on the topic. Nevertheless I think we shouldn't set aside the notion of existing vegetation on Mars aside--in fact I would stimulate research into this. If any kind of public photographic material would suggest it could be worthwhile investigating this notion, it's the material we've all skimmed, or perhaps truely studied. I’m just a simple composer/producer of chillout music, and an amateur ethnobotanist, so I have only little professional knowledge on the topic. Nevertheless I think we shouldn’t set aside the notion of existing vegetation on Mars aside–in fact I would stimulate research into this.

If any kind of public photographic material would suggest it could be worthwhile investigating this notion, it’s the material we’ve all skimmed, or perhaps truely studied.

]]> By: Kirath http://www.gmilburn.ca/2008/12/06/the-trees-of-mars/comment-page-1/#comment-575 Kirath Wed, 14 Jan 2009 04:37:08 +0000 http://www.gmilburn.ca/?p=516#comment-575 This is cool, I remember my Physics teacher bringing the first image to class one day without explanation and asked us to hypothesize an explanation for it. Half the class said some thing along the lines of fossilized trees, or plants of some sort. The rest mixed between martian volcano's of some sort to tectonic activity. It's humbling to know that the current idea is so much subtler then that. This is cool, I remember my Physics teacher bringing the first image to class one day without explanation and asked us to hypothesize an explanation for it. Half the class said some thing along the lines of fossilized trees, or plants of some sort. The rest mixed between martian volcano’s of some sort to tectonic activity. It’s humbling to know that the current idea is so much subtler then that.

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