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 More options Dec 20 2011, 12:19 am
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From: jillery <69jpi...@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2011 00:19:13 -0500
Local: Tues, Dec 20 2011 12:19 am
Subject: Re: Is Mars Habitable? By Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913)
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On Mon, 19 Dec 2011 20:07:44 -0800 (PST), John Stockwell

<john.19071...@gmail.com> wrote:
>On Dec 19, 8:53 pm, AGWFacts <AGWFa...@ipcc.org> wrote:
>> http://librivox.org/is-mars-habitable-by-alfred-russel-wallace/

>> In 1907 Wallace wrote the short book Is Mars Habitable? to
>> criticize the claims made by Percival Lowell that there were
>> Martian canals built by intelligent beings. Wallace did months of
>> research, consulted various experts, and produced his own
>> scientific analysis of the Martian climate and atmospheric
>> conditions. Among other things Wallace pointed out that
>> spectroscopic analysis had shown no signs of water vapor in the
>> Martian atmosphere, that Lowell’s analysis of Mars’ climate was
>> seriously flawed and badly overestimated the surface temperature,
>> and that low atmospheric pressure would make liquid water, let
>> alone a planet girding irrigation system, impossible. (from
>> Wikipedia)

>> http://www.archive.org/download/is_mars_habitable_cal_librivox/is_mar...

>> --
>> "I'd like the globe to warm another degree or two or three...  and CO2 levels
>> to increase perhaps another 100ppm - 300ppm." -- caton...@sympatico.ca

>Yep. Percival Lowell---another great intelligent design theorist.

But he did some kickass astronomy.  His reputation isn't too much
differnet from Hoyle's.

 
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