Martian Water and Evolution Fantasies
Heading up yonder toward the Darwin Ranch, just before you encounter the Winkie Guards, there is a place that people shun: Creek Road. They say strange things happen there, and it is home to a crazy hermit that screams at the darkness. He is suspected of providing peyote buttons to the ranch hands.
Rusty Swingset, the foreman, has been trying to discourage recreational drug use, but such activity may explain the baffling speculations passed along as science regarding Barsoom. I mean, Malacandra. I mean, Mars.
Background image derived from NASA / JPL-Caltech |
The deepest canyons on Mars were rapidly formed by devastating floods (New Scientist, 29 Sept 2021). Leah Crane announces a rethink. Mars was supposed to be another world of uniformitarian gradualism. Now, she says, geologists led by Timothy Goudge at the University of Texas at Austin are reconsidering. They now concur that some processes must have happened really, really fast.
To read the full article, which won't take long, launch your ownself to "Evolution Suspected on Mars."