Mmm, I am amazed, you know another user here MattEu has this comment under his posts:
(bautforum) DippyHippy I also think a fair portion of those who advocate these ideas are conspiracy theorists. It's just the way the theories are presented... like they're accusing the scientists of being incompetent, stuck in their ways, lying or just plain blind to the apparently obvious."
And that in itself explains the following:
http://marsprogram.jpl.nasa.gov/mro/gal ... 1112a.html
I went to the MRO after seeing these
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/pict ... ml?image=1 great images of predominately PDM or plasma discharge machining effects on Mars, that are unwittingly passed off as 'curious' and 'pretty' and of course always assumed to always be from volcanic, weathered or impact sourced causes.
This ridge is an obvious PDM scar right? C'mon, almost all of the mountains I see on earth to me seem to have some source in PDM effects.
But more telling is the assumptions built on assumptions, take this line:
Because of this, rampart craters can be used to indicate the past presence of water or ice in the Martian crust.
Surely they cannot be serious, is this the definition of a tautology?
Sean.