[Tig] false color, I believe?

[Peter Swinson]

Rob,

You are probably right, but it does make the sand look like sand.

As to whether any life existed on Mars is another thing.

What really p..sses me off is learned journals such as New Scientist and
supposedly serious TV programmes asking why the "universe" etc is just so
right for us to be here and why many discovered other worlds cannot support
ANY life.

From my perspective we only exist as a fluke of evolution from our
particular environnment's conditins. Therefore why could not other
lifeforms evolve from, for  example,  a 500 mile thick atmosphere made of
liquid or soild mercury, or some other physical medium we cannot even
imagine. 

Who's to say that the grains of sand on Mars are not in reality a nation of
highly intelligent beings.

Always reminds me of Hitchhikers Guide when a  whole squadron of beings
from another system attacked Earth because we were upsetting something on
their planet, only they were immediately  licked up by a dog, because they
were the size of sand grains.

Oh dear I now have probably upset a load of creantionists !

cheers

Peter