Human activity discovered on Mars!!! ...and more....

Melting polar ice caps, vast sheets of ice completely disappearing, planetary-wide warming, dust-bowl like conditions appearing, conditions that could support human life deteriorating...
Hmmm...sounds like a clear-cut case of man-made global warming causing disasters everywhere, right??

Nope...all those things are currently happening on....MARS....
so if those are the strongest criteria and arguments for man-made global warming, then I guess we've just proven the existence of people on Mars...and not only people on Mars, but irresponsible people who are driving gas guzzlers and spoiling the place with huge carbon footprints (if Martians even have feet ??)

Even the predominately liberal and global-warming-proponents at National Geographic completely agree...
"..Solar, Not Human, Cause for Warming"
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/02/070228-mars-warming.html

http://www.universetoday.com/74267/mars-%E2%80%98hide-and-seek%E2%80%99-ice-cap-affected-by-winds-and-water/


But -- if you want to see the #1, Nobel Prize winner wacky theory that I have heard recently...try this one on...

--first you start with the idea that we are ruining our own planet so fast that we will have to find somewhere else to move to...
Never mind the logistics of moving 6 or 7 billion people to some other planet, when indeed the absolutely WORST place on earth (maybe the extreme South Pole) is still far better and easier to survive at than the most friendly place on Mars.

And don't forget that half the people on earth are currently deprived of satisfactory supplies of food, shelter, and medical care already -- but we're somehow gonna build space ships to take them all on a 1-year voyage to another planet??
We have 13 TRILLION dollars of our own debt to pay for after all the ridiculous giveaways, before we can get Congress or anyone to vote on what it might cost to build a fleet of at least 100 million spaceships - enough to carry everyone!

Anyway -- if we're going to jump ship and bail on a failing planet earth in some Wall-E-like fashion, then we have to get some other place ready for our arrival, right??

Well, here's the reasonable and intelligent thoughts and ideas of our "top scientists"...or just maybe after reading their ideas, you'll be willing to wonder if these are our top scientists or just wackos..

Here's how to prepare Mars for human living, given, of course that there are at least THREE biggie problems we'd have going there......
#1 - that Mars is incredibly cold all the time
#2 - it has almost no water
#3 - and Mars doesn't have enough oxygen for life to exist...

Solution....
--build "huge solar mirrors the size of Texas to melt
the Martian ice caps"

Then.......... "heat up Mars by shooting asteroids at the
planet’s surface essentially jump-starting the
terraforming process"

..."the heat of the impact would be that of millions of
atomic bombs which would heat up the surface.
Second, asteroids contain frozen gases which would
help to thicken the atmosphere and finally set off a
runaway greenhouse effect."

(hmmm..I think he's confusing asteroids with comets, since asteroids are almost all solids and rock, while comets have frozen water and gases)


But, anyway.............yeah -- gotcha....sounds pretty simple when it's laid out like that....

Not that anyone in the world has yet even tried to calculate whether a mirror the size of Texas would be able to reflect enough light at Mars, given that Mars averages being 150 million miles away...and texas doesn't really have whole lot more than 10-12 hours a day of useful sunlight about half the year...plus Mars is out of sight behind the sun or too far away about half of its orbit also.
And do all those people in Texas want to give up their homes and property to build such a thing??
Maybe they'd have to be bribed with window seats on the first rockets transporting everyone to Mars!
There's even more funny ideas here -- but these guys actually do appear serious!
http://bigthink.com/ideas/23938

AND... we have absolutely NO idea how we'd even steer an asteroid if it was coming at us, let alone steer one right into Mars....
and doesn't that sound like it violates the Star Trek Prime Directive??
How dare we annihilate another planet when we aren't even taking good care of our own!! Captain Kirk would never..........
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_Directive

And, how dare we earthlings, in our arrogance, presume to know more about what's good for Mars than anyone on Mars does....
if we did this to Mars -- then we'd be way more guilty of violating another world's or another society's sovereignty than Christopher Columbus ever was!

Well.....it doesn't take a guy with a PhD to see that this stuff is for entertainment purposes only -- so it's kinda hard to know where to draw the line and whether these "scientists" are really serious or just joking and coming up with sci-fi like stuff for the entertainment purpose only.
It sort of blurs the line between comic or cartoonish entertainment and actual science which it claims to be.


Lastly -- I am sorry to throw cold water (or frozen CO2) onto this comical theory -- but apparently it has been tried before and failed!
This brand new study says that one of Mars' moons, Phobos, actually is a leftover from a massive collision of some asteroid into the surface of Mars...and even with that, there's still little to no water or oxygen on the red planet...
so if such a collision happened once and didn't work -- then it's a doomed plan right from the beginning, so even if we could figure a way to guide an asteroid into Mars, all we'd do is cause the formation of a third small moon for them and virtually no other noticable benefit!
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/martian-moon-forged-by-catastrophic-blast-100927.html



Back to the Joe Stowell thing...
The real reasons for all that's happening will not likely be known despite rumor and speculation......
But -- clearly there are reasons....some seem to think things happen for "no reason"...

Well, just maybe nobody here nor writing in the paper really knows those reasons, but hey - that never stopped anyone before from drawing bad conclusions....
Why can't a private organization do as they wish without always being criticized? They basically employed Coach Stowell for 55 years of his life as well as gave him the opportunity to play college ball and get an education..
I have loved Coach Stowell for the more than 40 years I have known him and yet I am not at all surprised by this and it seems pretty benign actually.

The guy is 84 years old....how many schools employ people that long and yet get ripped when he's gone?? Only one I can think of.
..reading this stuff - it sounds like Bradley's never done a thing for the man and stabbed him in the back -- couldn't be further from the truth..
BTW-- the Egyptian National basketball team also let him go decades ago -- maybe let's ask them for a reason....

So - the real story will probably never be known as there are privacy laws, and also a desire to say as little as possible since the local media plays up anything whether it's true or not..

(case in point...note the comment "It is not much of a secret, for example, that Stowell and head coach Jim Les have had no relationship to speak of.." then the immediate concession that such a fact had nothing to do with all this!
Then the writer speculates on a "conspiracy theory" and again immediately concedes that there isn't one and the two issues are unrelated.)

But as I read everything on the subject...
Here are some facts that it seems everyone is agreeing with...
-Joe Stowell has been employed and revered at BU and by BU for well over 50 years, but that he is almost 84, doesn't get around well, and cannot travel to road games. 99.8% of all people are retired or end their active employment by age 84, and there are reasons...but in this case, many reasons are not being stated.
-Joe Stowell was not fired by Bradley from his broadcasting gig. This was stated clearly to be the decision of WMBD alone.
-Despite the swipe at JL in the paper, the writer clearly acknowledges that BU and JL had nothing to do with the broadcasting decision, plus that decision was made by WMBD and was unrelated to the issue with the committee.
-How many D-I basketball head coaches are fired by a school from that capacity, but then retained and employed in some other capacity for 30+ years more?? I'll bet you cannot name many...thus I think BU has been every bit as loyal to Joe Stowell as vice-versa.
BU even has one of their top awards named for Coach... - http://is.gd/fvzlc
-the committee decision was back in August and unrelated to this WMBD decision, but Coach Stowell had been given the opportunity to serve on the committee since the 1960's -- way longer than anyone in history has been given to serve.
Since it was back in August that the decision on the committee was made - couldn't they find at least one quote -- maybe a comment from Stowell or anyone on that topic...but we see none.
Even when Stowell was quoted - he mentioned only the separate broadcasting issue and even then he did not seem unhappy.
The story also notes that two other members of the committee also had their terms expire and were likewise replaced, but those members remain unnamed, thus it doesn't seem like this was in any way aimed directly at any one person...perhaps just the relatively new administration's desire to make the changes they brought in here to make? Seems like that's the biggest complaint we ever hear -- people wanting to make changes and bring in "new blood"...right?



Keno Davis at Providence has his work cut out -- he will have 10 players (of the 12 scholarship players Keno has recruited) who have a year or less of college experience...
http://www.projo.com/sports/content/sp_bkc_journal_23_09-23-10_0DK116J_v11.2151ff3.html



And the Monday morning take on all the daily cheating revelations at Tennessee...
There's more than a few black eyes at Tennessee -- and NCAA violations and investigations galore..
but hey -- NEVER MIND that this is the most scandal-ridden period in Tennessee's history, and that nothing but bad has been happening all summer in numerous different athletic departments...
In the middle of all this, the Athletic Director is doing a great job and his position is secure...because..
"the robust success of Hamilton's fundraising -
turning an athletic department deficit into a fat
surplus and funding major improvements to the
football stadium and other building projects."
http://www.govolsxtra.com/news/2010/sep/25/troubles-contrast-surplus/

"UT" is being called the "University of Thugs" for all the player arrests, DUI's, drug issues, etc..that they have had...so why isn't the AD getting a little more heat?? This isn't just my opinion....
http://www.chattanoogan.com/articles/article_184876.asp

Again -- money and winning is all that matters -- integrity and character don't matter at all...
http://www.wbir.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=135771&catid=5

Almost daily - pundits are saying Pearl should be suspended or fired...
and it's likely to get worse when more of the truth about the lies is revealed.
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/commentary/news/story?page=hill/100924