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I saw a Venus Sulfur Cycle in a book or magazine a few years ago. I wish I could find it on the Internet.

In this cycle, Venus’ Sulfuric acid (H2 SO4)was broken down by UV radiation (Maybe explaining the unaccounted for UV absorption) into water (H2O)and the leftover SO3. I forgot what the 1 S and 3 O atoms do but they get cycled down into the rock. They are replenished by volcanoes, according to the theory.

Here is an interesting page on Sulfuric Acid;

http://www.ausetute.com.au/sulfacid.htm … facid.html

Chat, don't forget about Venus' Nitrogen (About 3 times that of Earth's)

Too bad we can’t soft-land a large long asteroid across the Sahara. If the right shape, and placed right, it could trap moisture on the upside (Like the Rockies do in Washington State).

As air rose up the side of the new mountain, it would cool and loose its moisture. This moister would rain down forming rivers that would run across the deserts.

Of course, I have no idea how to soft land an asteroid, and if I did, it would be a dangerous thing to try.

What about building a man-made volcanoes? Find a way to punch down to the magma. It would take one heck of a laser and a ton of power to make a hole that deep.

It is hard to imagine what an alien computer would be like? Perhaps they might not even need computers. Perhaps their brains are like computers. Maybe they use biological computer.

While I am talking about aliens, one thing I have noticed is that we tend to put their life-spans the same as ours. There could be aliens that live thousands of years, or hundreds of thousands of years.

Another thing that points to these things being fossils. They appear to have a low density (They stay atop the sand and dust) but that are harder than there their parent rock. Unfortunately, I don’t know what their density is or the their harness, but if they do have a low density and a high harness, that could indicate they are fossils. I don’t know any natural mineral that have a very low density, but a high hardness. Shells, Coral and Bone, made of calcium, fit this description, and with coral and shell fossils, when in Limestone, are harder than their parent rock.

When I say harder than their parent rock, I mean more resistant to weathering as well as actual hardness.

I was assuming we added water to Venus with comets, converting CO2, or some other way and started a water cycle.

I think an ocean worth of water would scrub any harmful sulfur out of the environment.

This topic reminds me of how ridiculous the Independence Day movie was. It was a fun movie, and I did like it, but I knew, while watching it, that aliens that advanced would have kicked our tails.

The part about introducing a virus into the alien computer network had me shaking my head. We have a hard enough time getting Unix and Microsoft machines talking to each other (The protocols we use are based on years of development).

There is no way a person could write a virus code for an alien computer like that. What are the odds of an alien computer resembling anything we have developed. Once an alien computer had been studied for years, and we understood how it worked and the language it used, we probably would be able to inflict a virus on it.

Notice the spheres around Endurance are the same size as those back in Eagle. Also notice many are attached by pedestals (berries-on-a-stick), be them erosional or biological in nature

They seem to have a size limit that I can not explain. They all seem to reach a certain size. Tektites would vary in size, and the larger they got the less spherical they would become. Concretions would also very in size and they would be layered.

Mollusks Fossils, here on earth, have size limits. I have found layers in limestone where all the shell fossils are similar sizes. I am not saying the sphere on Mars are fossils, but so far, that is the only way I can explain their similar sizes and their size limit.

What throws me away from them being fossils is that they are evenly distributed throughout the parent rock and are not restricted to certain layers. When I find shell fossils, they are usually in layers.

So, from what data I have seen, the spheres are not Tektites and they are not Concretions. They could be fossils.

IMO the 'blueberries' are the most puzzling thing discovered on Mars by the rovers.

How about a genetically altered horse able to survive on the surface of Mars?

Mars looks like a great place to roam the range and to ride off into the sunset.

I find the origin of the European last name interesting.

Long ago, the people of Europe had first names only. This was fine in a small community where you only have one John, or one David. But as a town grew and we got more than one John or David, they started saying things like, that is John the blacksmith (John became John Smith). Or that is David who lives by the green field (and he became David Greenfield.

Some European cultures would say that is John, son of Eric (And he became John Ericson).

I have some native American blood in me, (1/16th). I like how the Native American came up with names.

Once a water cycle got going on Venus, wouldn’t the sulfur get scrubbed out and locked into the rocks?

Hard to say what they are, but to me, they look like fractures, probably caused by the meteor blast.

I may be jumping the gun here, but it looks like the smooth lower layers weather differently from the jagged upper layers. The upper layers are probably the marine deposited ‘blueberry’ layers. The lower layers might be made of something else, like volcanic ash.

To bad we are not near any gullies like these;
http://www.msss.com/moc_gallery/e13_e18 … 01546.html