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Re: Louis Frank's Small Comet

Wal wrote:
"A better question is, why isn't there more water on Mars?
Conditions are better for it to accumulate there (has atmosphere and
lower
surface temps).

Wal

I hesitated last night about continuing along the Mars water discussion,
because the mere question presents quite unsettling yet intriguing, even
sensational prospects.     It has long been theorized that Mars used to
have abundant water and now, with Ron Baalke's recent post(s) on the
findings of Mars Global Surveyor and analysis of such, I find it
difficult not to ask the humbling question (I am not the first) - Was
there, on this now  seemingly abandoned, rusty planet a civilization
that either perished or escaped, predicting it's own doom,  escaped to
the closest planet, perhaps leaving behind some pyramids or a face (We
send likenesses of ourselves along on Voyager and other missions.)

And since the topic here is comets, let's put aside some irresponsible
civilization that cut down all it's oxygen supply and used precious
water as a medium for sewage, etc. and concentrate on what cosmic event,
e.g. asteroid or comet hit could have changed it's climate to make it
uninhabitable.  Would the dust cloud from a huge impact,   OK OK...now I
have it.  The asteroid belt used to be part of Mars, the orbit was
downgraded, shall we say,  by a hit and  the debris left circling in the
belt is a combination of whatever hit Mars and Mars chunks as well.  Do
we know if the asteroids in the belt exhibit two different
charactistics?  - for example, different colors?   Well, no matter, it's
not a requirement for the aftermath of the possible event.

 I'm sure there are many problems with these ideas and I look forward to
anyone addressing them.

Best regards,
Julia








(As has been pointed out with amenable atmospheric and climatic
conditions for life, including the necessary H20 for our type of life,)