Life on Mars?

leave it to beetlejuice to find a party in space

 

Not yet! He is still floating!

...Finally, we found our friend bj! He was flying happily over the Martian landscape. Being still under the effect of caffeine, he never noticed our presence.

 

We may need to wave a red flag at him or somothing like that.

 

No need for a flag. Just hold up a nice big steaming cup of coffee.

 

Here you go

 

Ok, look out. I'm coming down.

 

ok, back to the drawing board!

 

I think there is someone else here.

 

I think that the Stooges really really miss Earth (and it seems that people on Earth really miss the Stooges. And, in fact, I think that if they were able to they would love to be able to put the Stooges under a microscope rather than the telescope.

 

Yes they are very popular.

 

They have maintained their popularity for quite a few years.

 

Is that motocross guy a grandson of the great Evel Knievel? I think I detect a
family resemblance.

 

It is possible he could be weavil knievel the long lost grandson. But to get to mars it took a better jump than just the Grand Canyon to get here.

 

That was not Wheezle Knievel, he always carries a big inhaler, THAT , my friends was BJ's EVIL clone, it says so right in today's "The Truth Hurts - All Is Not As It Seems", papers like that do not lie!! My Gram said so!! It even showed how this Evil BJ clone escaped while the REAL BJ was innocently hoovering with the 3rd Ringo of Saturn!! Suppose there are Evil Clones of All of the Adventure-ers?? How am I supposed to keep Security secure? Captain, permission to hunt them down and take pictures for our "Most Wanted Evil-doers" , so my Security team can keep diplomacy incidents down and not get people like BJ a BAD name??

Here is proof that there is an Evil Sneivel, calling himself Beetlejoice? Another Clue!! I should have used spell check!!! The pic is pretty brutal, sorry!

 

REPORT TO CAPTAIN UGUEL:

TRIED MY BEST TO KEEP UP WITH YOU AND THE TEAM!! ALAS, I AM NOT AS GIF'TD AS YOU ALL! CAMP NOW OVERRUN WITH ZOOMIES FROM UNDERGROUND MARS, WILL DO MY BEST TO KEEP IN TOUCH.....THEY'RE MULTIPLYING SO FAST!! SAVE YOURSELVES, I HEARD THEY LIKE STOOGES, NO IDEA IF THEY MEAN THREE OR MANY!! AAAAAH, HERE THEY COME!!!

 

REPORT TO COCHISE:

AM EMBARRASSED TO REPORT DERELICTION OF DUTY BY TOP NOTCH NIGHT-TIME SECURITY TEAM. HOPE HEADS (MINE?) DON'T ROLL OVER THIS. PLEASE ADVISE ON BEST WAY TO EXPLAIN TO CAPTAIN UGUEL! WILL PAY MUCH WAMPUM FOR EXPERT ADVICE! BJ, APOLOGY FOR MINDLESSLY ASSUMING THE WORST, BECAUSE OF YOUR "EXPLOITS", WILL REMEMBER ONE MUST ALSO HAVE FUN ON DANGEROUS MISSIONS.

 

WILL BE SEARCHING FOR MORE TOP NOTCH SECURITY AS PICTURE BELOW PROVES!!

 

Don't worry about anything Marja. I brought a very special, very powerful robot along with us just in case we might run into any Martain nasties. He will ascertain whether they are friendly or angry and take the appropriate action.

 

I haven't seen that! I know that meteors use to desintegrate before hitting the ground but since asteroids are much bigger than meteors/meteorites, it would be quite dangerous!
Found this...impressive!

 

Hey Marja, no worry! It is very pleasant to see new people coming in our thread. You see our journey is long and perilous, so any visitors or new comers' input is always welcome! Hey folks, do you think that this might do for the magazine cover?

 

Great cover picture. Especially the gorgeous astronaut.

 

You are catching on very quickly, And we always need input. Johnny Five Is Alive

 

We all better hope he's just joking. An asteroid 70 miles wide would most probably destroy all life on Earth. Plants, Animals, the whole works, if it didn't shatter the planet to bits. Not a very pleasant thought. It would be equivilent to shooting a large cantalope with a 22 calibur bullet traveling at 30,000 miles an hour. Instant mush. Scientist's estimate that an asteroid 6 miles wide caused the extinction of the dinosaurs. The Gulf on Mexico is the crater it left when it hit us. The Barringer Crater in Arizona was created by a meteor 150 feet in diameter, weighing 300,000 tons, and traveling at 40,000 miles per hour. The crater is 1 mile wide and 570 feet deep. You are joking, aren't you Cochise?

 

Here is a little info on the arizona meteor crator.




Meteor Crater!


50,000 years ago, a huge iron-nickel meteorite, hurtling at about 40,000 miles per hour, struck the rocky plain of Northern Arizona with an explosive force greater than 20 million tons of TNT.
The meteorite estimated to have been about 150 feet across and weighing several hundred thousand tons, in less than a few seconds, left a crater 700 feet deep and over 4000 feet across. Large blocks of limestone, some the size of small houses were heaved onto the rim. Flat-lying beds of rock in the crater walls were overturned in fractions of a second and uplifted permanently as much as 150 feet.

Today the crater is 550 feet deep, and 2.4 miles in circumference. Twenty football games could be played simultaneously on its floor, while more than two million spectators observed from its sloping sides.

In 1902, Daniel Moreau Barringer, a Philadelphia mining engineer, became interested in the site as a potential source for mining iron. He later visited the crater and was convinced that it had been formed by the impact of a large iron meteorite. He further assumed that this body was buried beneath the crater floor. Barringer was correct. The crater was formed by a meteorite impact, but what he did not know was that the meteorite underwent total disintegration during impact through vaporization, melting and fragmentation.

In 1903, he formed the Standard Iron Company and had four placer mining claims filed with the federal Government, thus obtaining the patents and ownership of the two square miles containing the crater. Barringer spent the next 26 years attempting to find what he believed would be the giant iron meteorite. Barringer never found what he was looking for, but did eventually prove to the scientific community that the crater was the site of a meteorite impact.

The topographical terrain of Meteor Crater so closely resembles that of the Earth's moon and other planets, NASA designated it as one of the official training sites for the Apollo Astronauts. The U.S. Government deemed the crater a Natural Landmark in 1968

 

Hope Cochise was joking Judging by bigc's post, a meteorite can do lots of damage so we can imagine how much an asteroid could!!! Brrrr...!