Dust Storm on Mars Likely Comes From a Massive Volcanic Deposit!
CALLED IT!!!!
I said this storm had to be volcanic! I figured somehow Olympus Mons was having one last death thrall type of hiccup, but this makes total sense in hindsight and in regards to my feelings about it having to be volcanic.... Nice...
I was right about this just like I am right about AI and VR! PAY ATTENTION! SOMEBODY!?? anybody...
Check out this article:
http://www.astronomy.com/news/2018/07/dust-on-mars
This prognostication was even enough to warrant a NAILED IT! :D haha
Here is a link to my old article about this being volcanic.
https://steemit.com/nanocheeze/@nanocheeze/mars-just-got-smoked-literally-did-olympus-mons-blow-an-asteroid-metoer-hhit-or-a-secret-weapons-test
That basically means mars is a living planet still.
Even if life as we know it might come from anywhere if you believe in pan-spermia the fact that it's there and that the planet is alive, the fact that there's actually water present and (last but not least)
Tardigrades have proven it's possible ...
then this sentence has just finished itself :D
that was my original thoughts as well, but they have severely downplayed that possibility by saying the volcanic dust was merely a very large deposit of ash from a long time ago. So it was a big giant mountain of ash basically from a long long ago eruption or series of eruptions that collected. The wind finally hit it just right so that the entire thing went swirling up in one big show... If you can believe that... Read the article, that is basically what it is trying to say happened. Old volcano left big pile, big pile sat there for millions or billions of years, and now the wind finally hit it just right that it roe up the entire ash mountain... believable, yes, plausible, yes...My only concern would be what kept the ash from swirling up any time before in a previous dust storm...??? My first thoughts when this happened was olympus mons as I said.... But that's crazy... :P But I find it more likely that there was a "large ash deposit" inside the giant caldera of olympus mons, and maybe olympus mons berped basically throwing up all that ash that was sitting there... That's my theory... I'm sure the volcano is dead, but still not dead ;)
it does seem quite unlikely that over the course of millions of years all currents would go nicely around it out of respect for the gods on Olympus, specially on a mostly flat little ball like mars.
imo, the biggest blindspot of science was and is the observers paradox : you can see the whole universe except for where you stand :) plenty of wishful thinking too, which is practically unavoidable with the human mind, some kind of mutant abstract gestalt lol, you see a dataset and you're looking for something, you will be inclined to fill in the blanks subconsciously thinking it's there while you might be looking at something completely different.
The superhero of science warned them enough : you can have all the numbers you want in a jeopardy brain, but it takes a poet to create :D
Everytime i read about "life" its about carbon-based life, now i dont if that's because of bad science fiction and not enough Van Voght but i dont see why not in a vast place like the observable universe. Everytime they're looking for "life" they're looking for "earthlike" planets. Planets that would have the exact same conditions you get here, to create the exact same form of life ... which is lacking in imagination i think. I liked the guy who wanted to look for signs of Dyson Spheres a lot more, THAT's thinking like Kardashev lol.
You know, i see, the way i see, if you take the conditions for life on earth you get some kind of a matrix, right ? a set of data (classical mathematical matrix). Now matrices can be transformed (or there wouldnt be any 3D games), so what happens if you replace carbon by another element in the matrix ? That's more how i would look at life and then some, its a bit preposterous to think we can just imagine it all just b/c iThings lmao.
As far as i'm concerned, everything is possible until proven otherwise, not the other way around
I've read up on this several times, so far science is only willing to entertain silicon as being capable of producing life like carbon... There is also evidence to support that life on Earth may have started as silicon life or at least co-existed.... The giant silicon trees of ancient times, what you hear of as World Trees or Gaia trees... They were made of silicon, it all actually makes sense when you hear some of the scarce science behind it.... But it also makes sense that other elements would heave trouble forming life just due to what we now of energy and said elements. Could ife exist based on other elements, yes, but it is likely that they would need an outside energy source to sustain the reactions in said life or a sponge to absorb excess energy, whichever it may be. I could imagine combination life, like a life form made of metals, silicon, and carbon, but I think that is something that is pretty hard to evolve.... way beyond what we are at here at least on Earth... I would suppose that is how you would create a giant super sized life form, like a planet sized creature or whatnot... like a space whale... It would be part silicon, part carbon, and part technology from the sentient race that preceded it on it's birth planet... lol... etc, etc...