:: NEWS COCKTAIL aka BlahBlahBlog ::
"Everything is being compressed into tiny tablets. You take a little pill of news every day - 23 minutes - and that's supposed to be enough." -Walter Cronkite, RE TV news. The Web has changed that for many, however, and here is an extra dose for your daily news cocktail. This prescription tends to include surveillance and now war-related links, along with the occasional pop culture junk and whatever else seizes my attention as I scan online news sites.:: 3.06.2004 ::
:: "NASA Gets the Picture About Water on Mars" ::
From NPR.org:
Rovers' Findings, Photos Stir Scientific and Public Interest
The two rovers on Mars continue their pursuit of evidence that water once flowed on the Red Planet.
Earlier this week, scientists working on the rover called Opportunity said the rocks an soil at Opportunity's landing site did shown signs of having been shaped by flowing water. Numerous images from Mars, promptly available to the general public, are proving to be a popular draw for Web users.
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From MSNBC:
Life on Mars? Don't bet against it
After NASA findings, some bookies stop taking wagers
LONDON - Some British bookies on Wednesday stopped taking bets that life once existed on Mars after a NASA probe found evidence that the Red Planet at one time had a wet climate.
Ladbrokes said it has closed the book on evidence emerging that Mars had ever harbored living organisms.
"Following the latest news from NASA, we think it is now likely that evidence of past life on Mars will be found in the coming years," said spokesman Warren Lush.
The odds on past life on Mars were 16 to 1 when the book closed, down from 1,000 to 1 when the first bets were taken in the 1970s.
NASA scientists said this week that its Opportunity rover probe had indicated there is strong evidence that at least one part of Mars had a persistently wet environment that could possibly have been hospitable to life.
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