"Forget Dune. MARS Has The Giant Worms!" Topic

They need to rename that planet "Arrakis"!

ebtx.com/mars/marstube.htm
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The Martian "Fremen" await. :)

CC

"These animals are on the order of two hundred feet tall and ten football fields long. They make the aircraft carrier "Enterprise" look like a Piper Cub next to a 747 Jumbo jet." ebtx.com/mars/marstube.htm

"If there were a large biological entity on Mars -- such as an annelid-type worm, known for its burrowing and tilling of soils -- such a creature might account for the combination of geologic anomalies, and their association with what appears to be the remains of a large "glass-like worm!" It is a fact that in the image the feature looks like a "glass worm" -- especially if one does not take the prodigious scale into account." link

"Apparently Mars has got worms and no ones talking about it. NASA's curiously quiet, the press is strangely silent! . . . There's no mistaking that there is something fantastically large, chomping its way through miles of soil (theory) shedding its skin and waving at us." link

I think it's funny that they even consider such a possibility.

CC

You find the strangest, most interesting stuff, CC.

We should play a game of Wargods sometime.

"Mrs has provided a plethora of peculiar pictures to pic perspicacious people's pervasive, (but) preconceived perceptions pertaining to possible (perhaps plentiful … and even … pulchritudinous – though ponderous) Platyhelminthes and their plexus of pliable pathways. Put that in your piehole."

Well said!

CC reports, you decide.

I only trust those scientific messengers who are not tainted by the corruption of the Mainstream--Enterprise Mission and Coast to Coast.

I am also happy for any occasion where I can bellow "Shai-Hulud!"

"CC reports, you decide."

In that case, maybe I shouldn't have cross-posted this to the humor board, or made the comment that "I think it's funny that they even consider such a possibility."

I need to learn to be less biased on these so-called "reports". Ooops, I did it again! :)

CC

This stuff has been out there awhile..Interesting enough the official pics on the Mars Surveyor site are there, they are just among the 10 THOUSAND or so pics that you have to file through to try to find.

The greatest of secrets can always be kept by putting it under the file that says "Public Access"…

Dark, fractured rock with sand in the fractures?

So Herbert was an alien?

This video was taken from one of the Mars rovers . . .

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Ride the worm!!! :)

CC

Very cool, CC! Thanks for sharing.

I mean the original links of course, not the "Mars Rover" video.

LOL. Gotcha!

CC

That is so true…………

Why did they call them worms and not Nessies?

Um, because Nessie is fictitious?

:-)

ARGGGGGHHHH!!!! Ok, breath… Hoagland drives me nuts.

On another note, would be cool for large scale VSF battles, mayb ein 6mm.

Man with worms that big, think of the fish you'd catch.

The early 9,000 ft tall bird gets the worm…

Patrick, I agree, Hoagland bugs me, too. He's pretty full of himself! But leaving him aside (he didn't take the photos, after all!), what do you think those anomalies could be? At the very least they seem worthy of further study.

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Nah. Some will stick to the worm explanation until we finally get there and prove them wrong, whenever that is. Even then, some will say that there is a government cover-up of the "facts".

Until then, though highly un-scientific, it does sound cool (from a gaming perspective) to think of a Martian environment with giant worms. :)

CC

Nappy III, check out Phil Platt's site linked above.

"So what we have here is yet another breathless claim by Hoagland and his team which, when you think more carefully about it, is grossly exaggerated at best. This isn't the fossil of some giant glass worm. It's even more remarkable, in my opinion: it's evidence that water once flowed on an alien planet. That is a fossil record of far greater interest."

Napoleon III 17 May 2007 3:48 a.m. PST:
"what do you think those anomalies could be?"

Not really pertinent to the "worm", but seems to me that most "Hoagland anomalies" are results of heavy handed picture processing followed by tangents of very vivid imagination… I think I'll bet my money on Mr. Plait on there issues (-;)

Imagine the panfish you could catch with THAT bait.

I'm not here to spoil the fun.

I just kind of misread all the "happy sarcasm" going on and thought that some people were actually sincerely buying the giant worm explanation.

Reading the thread again I see I am the Barney Fife like fire safety nut who runs into camp screaming and throws a bucket of water on the campfire just when it is almost ready for the bacon and hotdogs and smores.

LOL.

Glad to have you back.

CC

ALL of those photos have been photoshopped to one degree or another…

I was going to say that they could be Molokai-like lava flows that have cooled rapidly in Mars' frigid atmosphere and have moved oddly in the low gravity.

But then, they look pretty messed around-with pictures . . .