Wednesday, October 28, 2009

FAIR FRIEND OF LIFE


By Alexis America


When the well is dry, we know the worth of water.
Benjamin Franklin


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It's high time we get our ardent and arrogant arses up to Mars.

Coca-Cola and Bill Gates can foot the bill.

Why?

Not just because water is there,
but because there is less and less water here.

Start bottling and stockpiling the almost pure water up there on Mars, and shuttle it back to Earth .

Freshwater supplies on Earth will be gone in the not so distant future.

Sooner than we expect.

Of course, new and efficient vehicles that travel to Mars must be built.

Perhaps robotic drones will do the heavy lifting and arduous traveling for us.

You and I can stay home---in front of the computer---or TV--- and watch sports events, etc.


BUT...

It might be cheaper (and much more convenient) to get clean water in our own backyards:

Melt ice caps and/or drag them to our shores!

Global Solar Desalinization!

Remove the windy, waffling, bountiful water that lies in the brains of Democrats and Republicans!


Instead of killing each other here on Earth, we should be fighting to save our planet!

LET'S GO TO MARS...

Or just stay home and begin some serious planning for the bad and dry times ahead...

NOW!


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99 percent pure water ice found on Mars

http://trak.in/news/99-percent-pure-water-ice-found-on-mars/7846/

Washington, September 25 (ANI): NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has revealed sub-surface water ice that may be 99 percent pure, halfway between the North Pole and the equator on the Red Planet.

“We knew there was ice below the surface at high latitudes of Mars, but we find that it extends far closer to the equator than you would think, based on Mars’ climate today,” said Shane Byrne of the University of Arizona, a member of the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment, or HiRISE, which runs the high-resolution camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

“The other surprising discovery is that ice exposed at the bottom of these meteorite impact craters is so pure,” Byrne said.

“The thinking before was that ice accumulates below the surface between soil grains, so there would be a 50-50 mix of dirt and ice. We were able to figure out, given how long it took that ice to fade from view, that the mixture is about one percent dirt and 99 percent ice,” he added.

Scientists used several instruments on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, or MRO, in quick succession in detecting and confirming highly pure, bright ice exposed in new craters, ranging from 1.5 feet to 8 feet deep, at five different Martian sites.

In August 2008, the orbiter’s Context camera team examined their images for any dark spots or other changes that weren’t visible in earlier images of the same area. Meteorites usually leave dark marks when they crash into dust-covered Mars terrain.

The HiRISE team, which bases its operations at the UA Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, followed up in September 2008 by taking high-resolution images of the dark spots.

“We saw something very unusual when we followed up on the first of these impact craters, and that was this bright blue material poking up from the bottom of the crater. It looked a lot like water ice. And sure enough, when we started monitoring this material, it faded away like you’d expect water ice to fade, because water ice is unstable on Mars’ surface and turns directly into water vapor in the atmosphere,” Byrne said.

A few days later that September, the orbiter’s “CRISM” team used their Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars and got the spectral signature of water ice exposed in one of the impact craters, further clinching the discovery.

How far water ice extends toward the equator depends largely on how much water has been available in the Martian atmosphere in the recent past.

“The ice is a relic of a more humid climate not very long ago, perhaps just several thousand years ago,” Byrne said. (ANI)


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WHAT IS WATER?

In any language it is the
Beginning and
End of
Life.

By M.L. Squier

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

HEALTH CARE AND DITHERING CAUCUSES


"She's protecting the people in her caucus."

"Joe is aligned with the Democratic caucus."

"Just kick him out of the caucus."

"The reason there's a lot of confidence in the caucus is Harry Reid."


"We had a very friendly and warm caucus."

"It depends how you cut it."


"Our caucus is in a very good mood."

"There's unrest in our caucus."

"Senator, it would seem that your caucus needs unifying."

"What are you doing in your caucus to make sure I'm not the only guy?"

"She's not going to put the caucus through this."



Saturday, October 24, 2009

STRANGE ORBS OF PARTURITIONS




It's now official:

Alien-human hybrids work for FOX News.

Up to now, the nature of the beast has dwelt in a mysterious darkness.

It came as no surprise to me that most of the wing nuts who work for FOX News are the parturitions of bad aliens.

Just look at (
NOT into) their spooky eyes.

This is a dead giveaway that these screeching and scary spielers are the not spawn of
little green men, but of those gray e.t.'s that have big, black eyes!

Well, maybe not
the grays, but some other aliens, because the eyes of broadcasters on FOX News are not black, they're just very creepy-looking.

Their hybridized orbs come from other
e.t's.

Look at these peepers, and you'll see what I'm talking about.





IT'S THE OIL STUPID!





Friday, October 23, 2009

CELLPHONOPHOBIA



I, too, have CellPhonophobia, and like a Pavlovian dog, each time I hear anyone blabbing away on their cell phone, I want to grab it and smash it
(unlike the dog who wants to eat it).

I also think about all of the brain tumors that these blabbers' brains are getting from all of the microwaves (do I have the right "wave"?).

And what is so damn important that people can't just wait to talk to each other?


Cell phones are a mania and a plague.

They and the people who use them scare me.

Of course, I don't need to use any cell phone, because I use ESP.

Sunday, October 11, 2009

DON'T ASK DON'T TELL


Generals and senators
Facing the nation
And meeting the press
Talking about surges and soldiers
Talking about war and Taliban
And I'm listening to Jimi Hendrix
Singing All Along The Watchtower

Don't ask---don't tell

And I'm listening to Bob Dylan
Singing Gates of Eden

Don't ask---don't tell

And I turn off the television with
Generals and senators
Facing the nation
And meeting the press
Talking about surges and soldiers
Taking about war and Taliban

Don't ask---don't tell


Thursday, October 01, 2009

MY LETTER TO GORE VIDAL


Gore Vidal and Tennessee Williams (1948)







TO:
Gore Vidal
Doubleday
1540 Broadway
New York, NY 10036


Dear Mr. Vidal,

I want to write to you before you leave this world. I know that these words (or anything) will not shock you.
If not…what does shock you these days?
(Besides the continuing self-destruction of the United States of Amnesia)

I have always had my English classes read
Visit to a Small Planet.
I just ordered a signed first edition (hard back).

I’ve always wondered:

Was Kreton a pun on the word
cretin?

Did you have in mind the Roswell crash when you wrote
VTASP?

These are perhaps silly questions, but I always bring them up in my English classes.

Best wishes
& Sincerely,

M.L. Squier [My published name]

I am a scribbler of political satire and serious and silly poetry @mad plato [Just Googling those two words will “take” you to my blog called
Letters from Mad Plato/www.madplatonews.blogspot.com
Better yet, type [Google] these words:
VERBAL BLUNDER

Also, type [Google) ALPHABET POEMS. These are my intellectual, brainy, show-off egotisms


P.S.
I don’t think I can say that I am a “groupie” (as they’re called) or a fan of many living writers…in fact, only two come to mind…just you and Bob Dylan.

I’ve never read any of your historical novels, but I’ve read nearly all of your essays and novels.
One of these days I shall read your
Creation, which I should have done a long time ago. It sits in my garage while I go to my high school to babysit my English classes.

P.S.S.
I just finished reading Hitchins' piece in Vanity Fair. He's a big, jealous show-off. You are a show-off, too, but you have always had more to say and show.
The Truth always hurts.
You have always told the Truth.
I admire you greatly.
Thank you.

Mad Plato