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Time was when the solar system had two watery worlds. Directly next door to the warm, wet, loamy Earth was the warm, wet, loamy Mars, both planets sloshing with oceans and running with rivers--and both possibly teeming with life. Billions of years ago, however, the low-gravity Mars had both its air and water leak away, causing the planet to become the dead, freeze-dried place it is today...
...thinking may be wrong. Last week NASA released a flurry of new images from the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft that suggest that even today, water may be flowing up from the Martian innards and streaming onto the Martian surface--dramatically increasing the likelihood that at least part of the planet is biologically alive. "If these results prove true," says Ed Weiler, associate administrator of NASA's Office of Space Science, "[they have] profound implications for the possibility of life...
...homosexuality is part of life and will never stop being so. If Dr. Laura and her supporters did some investigating they would find thousands of [gay] establishments, books, magazines, radio shows, TV shows, movies, people, parades, bars, social groups, neighborhoods, etc., in America and in every country on this planet...
...living in the year 2000, homosexuality has been around for thousands of years and here in America came to society's doorstep openly over 50 years ago. I'd think we would be able to accept others as they are and move on to better ourselves and the planet...
Nobody wants to leave the planet a red, barren dust bowl like Mars, incapable of sustaining any life except the hardiest surviving lineages. But unless we anticipate the impact of technologies--before they are practical--it will be impossible for us to apply them thoughtfully, fruitfully and respectfully, or to ensure the survival of our species within the gift of life on earth...