/sci/ - Science & Math

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>>12055284
Italian scientist Schiaparelli discovered channels (canali) on Mars. He made no claim as to their origin.
Briefly, in English this was mistranslated as canals - canals being manmade. This was quickly corrected but remained in the American consciousness. Inspired Edgar Rice Burroughs - who wrote Tarzan and created the California neighborhood Tarzana - to write John Carter of Mars.

Nevertheless, mistranslation aside, speculation raged as to the origins of Schiaparelli's channels. It's not so much that people thought it was inhabited, it's that people HOPED it was. Same thing Europa and Titan. Unfounded, pointless, human hope.

The channels are mostly optical illusions, though some from extinct waterways and former flooding of the surface. The possibility exists, however remote, that somewhere below the Arean surface, in a pool of liquid water, there exists life. Here's hoping.
>A clement twilight zone on a synchronously rotating Mercury, a swamp‐and‐jungle Venus, and a canal‐infested Mars, while all classic science‐fiction devices, are all, in fact, based upon earlier misapprehensions by planetary scientists.
- Carl Sagan

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>Rosalind Franklin
They've been designing this god damned thing for twenty years.
FUCKING LAUNCH ALREADY
NOPE! postponed again...
fucking euros

Spirit and Oppy were listening to Rise Against, Incubus and Avril Lavigne.
Sojourner listened to Rom Di Prisco and Nirvana

What does Curiosity even listen to?