Nothing to say here about the snow, except that it's quite pretty. It was gorgeous yesterday, and today with the clear hard blue sky, the world has a crispness that makes those Maxfield Parrish pictures of winter look like Monet seen through Vaseline-covered glasses. Hope everyone got out of the driveway this morning, if you drove; finding a wall of snow boulders left by the plows is always disconcerting. Especially since the boulders didn't exist a day before. How snow spontaneously generates boulders is one of those things beyond my ken, but I'm not a science guy. As we'll soon find out.
SCIENCE! My Zite app knows I like UFO stories, so it kicks up all kind of breathless nonsense. This is a perfect example of the sort of thing that passes for SCOOPS and BREAKING NEWS in the world of UFOlogy:
It's never a good sign when the link to the study is the generic landing page - almost as if they want to leach some authority from the group without giving the specific page that mocks their claims. Nothing about Phobos is on the list of most-read stories. Instead you have this:
Well. Wiggle-match? You mean the method that uses the non-linear relationship between 14C age and calendar age to match the shape of a series of closely sequentially spaced 14C dates with the 14C calibration curve? I think that goes without saying. The page does have a story about Mars:
They're not kidding. They're immense.
That's a hundred miles wide. It takes a lot of water moving very fast for a long time to do that. But back to Phobos, if you don't mind.
Here the article references one of the most authoritative sources on the matter of hollow celestial objects that are actually spacecraft:
Yes, the article mentions "The World is Hollow, and I Have Touced the Sky," a Star Trek episode. As for that guy, he's Jon Lormer, imdb notes that he has quite an honor:
