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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Judge approves $800million payout to more than 4,400 relatives and victims of 2017 Las Vegas Strip massacre that killed 59 and wounded more than 850
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • MGM Resorts International and its insurers will pay $800million settlement

  • Payment to be made to 4,400 relatives and victims of 2017 Las Vegas shooting

  • The gunman, Stephen Paddock,
    ...the brilliant, semi-divorced, retired accountant high roller who, while on anti-anxiety meds, collected a bunch of guns and bump stocks, found a hotel room overlooking a country music festival after checking out several other mass murder opportunities around the country, and went to town. Oddly enough, his father was an FBI-wanted psychopath...
    killed 58 and wounded some 850 in shooting

  • Paddock opened fire from 32nd floor of Mandalay Bay hotel room on October 1

  • Moments before police could arrest him, Paddock killed himself in his hotel room

  • Two retired judges will serve as the administrators of the settlement account

  • MGM Resorts, which owns the Mandalay Bay resort, will pay $49million

  • Its insurance companies will pay the remaining $751million
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/01/2020 08:38 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


-Short Attention Span Theater-
World-renowned female powerlifter Anna Turaeva wins apology from airline after they refused to let her board a flight without proving she was a woman
[Daily Mail]That's a man baby.

Are you East German?
  • Anna Turaeva, 42, has spoken of the 'horror' of facing intimate questions

  • The sportswoman has a string of records and medals representing her country

  • But she was stopped at a checkpoint when security staff looked at her passport

  • She said after calmly explaining to the officials, she was finally allowed to board
Posted by: Uloter Ebbomolet9368 || 10/01/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  surprised the airline had the guts to ask......
Posted by: Mercutio || 10/01/2020 7:02 Comments || Top||

#2  "We're sorry that we, like 99.999% of the rest of the planet except for blind hounds, thought you were a female."
Posted by: gorb || 10/01/2020 9:07 Comments || Top||

#3  Anna does give the appearance of being a man. Case of mistaken sexuality--time to take the airline apology and move on. She shouldn't be surprised if this happens again.
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/01/2020 11:13 Comments || Top||

#4  that is one fugly woman!
Posted by: 746 || 10/01/2020 12:42 Comments || Top||

#5  With all the trans issues going down I'm surprised the officials chose this hill to make a stand on.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 10/01/2020 20:11 Comments || Top||

#6  that is one fugly woman!

I'm sure she is beautiful inside. At least at the mitochondrial level.
I do admit the receding hairline is a bit off-putting.
Posted by: SteveS || 10/01/2020 20:21 Comments || Top||

#7  receding hairline

She's had more anabolic steroid injections than Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sea Biscuit combined.
Posted by: Uloter Ebbomolet9368 || 10/01/2020 20:33 Comments || Top||

#8  mo betta than a advancin' hairline
Posted by: Varmint Guelph8913 || 10/01/2020 20:34 Comments || Top||

#9  #7 - laaaate Snark O' The Day applicant
Posted by: Frank G || 10/01/2020 20:46 Comments || Top||

#10  Reminds me of the movie The Wanderers
Posted by: Slappy || 10/01/2020 21:23 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
California earthquakes swarm in state's Imperial Valley region
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/01/2020 09:28 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Hints at big things to come.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/01/2020 12:29 Comments || Top||

#2  Covid. Fires. Now earthquakes?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/01/2020 13:26 Comments || Top||

#3  Solar activity.
Posted by: Clem || 10/01/2020 13:55 Comments || Top||

#4  The region is seismically active. Tree roots hold the soil in place. If you burn down the trees, the roots are gone. So, forest fires cause earthquakes. QED.
It's Science, bitches!
Posted by: SteveS || 10/01/2020 16:27 Comments || Top||

#5  Major fault runs up through Anza to connect to San Andreas. This is regular tension-relieving along a Slip/Strike fault area
Posted by: Frank G || 10/01/2020 18:03 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
Texas man allegedly takes gun from armed robbers, killing 1, injuring other: report
[FoxNews] A Texas man allegedly took a gun away and fired at two accused teenage robbers on Wednesday after he said they tried to steal from him, according to a report.

One of the teens was struck in the head and chest and was pronounced dead at a local area hospital, officials said. The other suspect ran into a nearby apartment building after being injured. He was found and rushed to the same hospital in an unknown condition.

Police said the unidentified man was getting into his truck to leave a crowded strip mall in Houston around noon when the teenagers walked up to him. He told authorities that at least one of them was armed, according to Houston's KPRC-TV.

“He’s reporting that these two suspects attempted to rob him, to take his vehicle,” said Sgt. Jason Brown with the HCSO Homicide Division. “He was able to take one of the pistols from the suspect and (shot) both of those suspects.”
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/01/2020 09:31 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  That's Texas...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/01/2020 11:01 Comments || Top||

#2  Anywhere else they would probably charge the guy.
Posted by: gorb || 10/01/2020 11:28 Comments || Top||

#3  Gun control done right.
Posted by: Zhang Fei || 10/01/2020 14:10 Comments || Top||

#4  You would really think they'd learn to move to someplace safer, like Chicago. It seems like there's a story like this every 1-2 weeks here in Houston or the surrounding area. MANY of us here in Texas are armed.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 10/01/2020 18:03 Comments || Top||

#5  In New York, they would have charged him with murder, plus theft of a weapon.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 10/01/2020 19:00 Comments || Top||


Arabia
Sheikh Nawaf Al Sabah appointed new Emir of Kuwait
[DAILYTIMES.PK] Sheikh Nawaf,
...more formally Nawaf al-Ahmad al-Sabah ...
83, was temporarily given some of the Emir’s constitutional duties on July 18 when the Emir was admitted to hospital for medical checks.

Under Kuwaiti law, in the absence of the monarch, the crown prince is appointed as acting ruler. Sheikh Nawaf was sworn in as crown prince in 2006 after Sheikh Sabah was appointed Emir.

The State of Kuwait declared an official mourning for a period of 40 days and the closure of official departments for a period of three days.

Sheikh Sabah ruled Kuwait since 2006 and steered its foreign policy for more than 50 years. The Emir was admitted to hospital on July 18 for medical checks and then, a day later underwent successful surgery.

On July 23, the Emir was flown to the United States to complete his medical treatment. The Emir’s office did not disclose the reason for the surgery or details of what treatment the Emir was going to receive in the US.

According to a state media report, his 83-year-old half brother and crown prince Sheikh Nawaf al-Ahmed is expected to succeed him.

Dubbed as the "dean of Arab diplomacy" Sheikh Sabah had ruled the Arab country since 2006 and had commandeered its foreign policy for the past 50 years.

He earned the title "dean of Arab diplomacy" for his efforts to restore relations with states that had unnerved their weight behind Iraq during Gulf War in 1990-91.

Sheikh Sabah came to power in January 2006 after Emir Sheikh Saad al-Abdullah was deposed on health grounds by the Kuwaiti parliament just nine days into his new role as the Emir.
Posted by: Fred || 10/01/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Britain
Russia and China are waging 'political war' to 'break our willpower', warns Chief of the Defence Staff General Sir Nick Carter
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/01/2020 09:07 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Chief of the Defence Staff General Sir Nick Carter said hostile powers 'cannot afford' a militarised conflict and so are turning to cyber attacks and disinformation.

The best way to counter this in the U.S. is to have a "free press" that doesn't act as toadies for the Dem Party.
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/01/2020 10:57 Comments || Top||

#2  I don't believe it is an "act" John.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/01/2020 11:19 Comments || Top||

#3  We all thought the Cold War was over when the Soviet Union imploded. We were wrong. China and Russia knew better.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 10/01/2020 13:55 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Russia's military strength 'is at its highest since the Cold War', with nuclear weapons in particular far more advanced
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/01/2020 09:15 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  You should really check out the current real strengths of the European armies and Russia... The European Union is already strong enough to defend against Russia, an opponent not even close to being as rich, less populated, in a bad geostrategical position, with a budget stretched extremely thin and terrible availability rates.

The trope that European armies can't stand their own don't stand close examination. If you just look at wikipedia, yeah, the Russian army looks numerous and well equipped but the truth is that it is divided between a state of the art and well trained spearhead that amounts to about 100~200k soldiers and conscripts with outdated hardware that suffered for almost two decades of poor maintenance.

Russia is a paper tiger.
Posted by: Muggsy Hapsburg5230 || 10/01/2020 11:10 Comments || Top||

#2  paper Bear
Posted by: Goober Tojo7615 || 10/01/2020 11:20 Comments || Top||

#3  /\Assuming the Europeans can find the spare parts they haven't been buying.
Posted by: magpie || 10/01/2020 11:45 Comments || Top||

#4  Would Western Europeans be able to muster the collective will to resist?
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 10/01/2020 14:00 Comments || Top||


China-Japan-Koreas
Thousands of Chinese passengers flout coronavirus rules and cram into a coach station as China prepares to celebrate National Day holiday
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/01/2020 09:09 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Commies


Chinese fishing fleets caught in Galapagos Islands violating Ecuadorian sovereignty
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/01/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Take all their stuff and send them back home.
Posted by: gorb || 10/01/2020 9:01 Comments || Top||

#2  Wonder what Scalloped Hammerhead Fin Soup will bring us?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 10/01/2020 17:50 Comments || Top||


5,000 pets found dead in boxes at Chinese shipping depot
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 10/01/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Coming to a meal near you, soon
Posted by: Frank G || 10/01/2020 6:02 Comments || Top||


#3  You know, the chinese food they serve in the USA is not nearly as good as the native chinese food.
/herb
Posted by: swksvolFF || 10/01/2020 19:28 Comments || Top||

#4  /Mr. Obvious, now
Posted by: Frank G || 10/01/2020 19:40 Comments || Top||

#5  What was the tell?

Was season 2 of Jack Ryan an initiation code to activate US State Department special ops to organize criminal gangs against the glorious government as a shroud for the real op of stealing Iranian cargo vessels and sending their contents to the US to crave the insatiable Yankee thirst for precious fluids?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 10/01/2020 19:54 Comments || Top||

#6  You do that too well.
Mom, Uncle swksvolFF is scaring me!
Posted by: SteveS || 10/01/2020 20:15 Comments || Top||

#7  Same IP
Posted by: Frank G || 10/01/2020 20:43 Comments || Top||

#8  Take out
Posted by: Slappy || 10/01/2020 21:20 Comments || Top||


Cyber
Russian hackers are responsible for HALF of all nation-state cyber-attacks targeting everything from elections to the Olympics, Microsoft data reveals
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/01/2020 09:11 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  OH man; now this, come on man.
Posted by: Chesney Slamp5422 || 10/01/2020 10:15 Comments || Top||

#2  Only 12% from China is a surprise.
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/01/2020 10:35 Comments || Top||

#3  What do Kaspersky data reveal?
Posted by: Glomomp Sinatra4797 || 10/01/2020 11:03 Comments || Top||

#4  Russian, Belorussian, Ukrainian are all Russian to a newsie.
Posted by: magpie || 10/01/2020 11:39 Comments || Top||

#5  Of course Gates would jump on the Russian conspiracy.
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/01/2020 12:56 Comments || Top||

#6  Microsoft data? Take that with a grain or two of salt. In my experience as a system administrator, the Chinese were by far the worst offenders. That's not to let the Russians off the hook. They were bad too, as were the Ukrainians and many others.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 10/01/2020 14:04 Comments || Top||

#7  And with microsoft, it must a piece of cake to hack through their stuff.

Amazing how the Russian 'narrative' just continues. And China? What's a China? Geeeesh.
Posted by: Clem || 10/01/2020 14:06 Comments || Top||


Economy
Top U.S. airlines starting 32,000 furloughs as bailout hopes fade
CHICAGO/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - American Airlines and United Airlines, two of the largest U.S. carriers, said they were beginning furloughs of over 32,000 workers on Thursday as hopes faded for a last-minute bailout from Washington.

Posted by: Thravins Chise4721 || 10/01/2020 06:01 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:


#2  All in an effort to wreck the economy and destroy the Orange Man in November.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/01/2020 9:34 Comments || Top||

#3  Its my understanding that Cruise ships are being scrapped early as well.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 10/01/2020 9:43 Comments || Top||

#4  "NO" to bail-outs. Period.
Posted by: Clem || 10/01/2020 10:07 Comments || Top||

#5  A convenience, not necessity.
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/01/2020 23:08 Comments || Top||


Trump issues fresh rare earth mining executive order
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/01/2020 02:06 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  is there a hyphen shortage?
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 10/01/2020 4:23 Comments || Top||

#2  "The estimated value of rare-earth compounds and metals imported by the United States in 2017 was $150 million, a significant increase from $118 million imported in 2016," the USGS penned in its 2018 minerals report.
Posted by: b || 10/01/2020 7:19 Comments || Top||

#3  I would like to know why it apparently takes a non-journalist to look up a report more recent than the 2018 report (or, on the other hand, why newer reports don't exist "yet").
Posted by: Vernal Hatrick || 10/01/2020 8:17 Comments || Top||

#4  #1 Yes indeed. A rarity for sure. I remember as a young chap seeing one under a bridge. Harry-mean little bugger he was.
Posted by: Dale || 10/01/2020 10:25 Comments || Top||

#5  Good for Trump. We need to cut our ties with China as a supplier of critical materials.

Biden had no comment.
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/01/2020 11:21 Comments || Top||


Europe
Belgium finally gets new PM, 16 months after vote
But carrying on under caretaker governments while negotiating who will be the next sucker is what Belgium does best!
[IsraelTimes] Phlegmish liberal leader Alexander De Croo will be Belgium’s new prime minister at the head of a seven-party coalition government, it is announced Wednesday — 16 months after an inconclusive election.

De Croo’s French-speaking socialist rival Paul Magnette confirms that the parties had chosen the 44-year-old finance minister as premier. He is to be sworn in on Thursday by Belgium’s king.

By choosing a Phlegmish leader, the incoming government hopes to balance the fact that its parliamentary base will be drawn from mainly French-speaking parties, with the main Dutch-speaking groups in opposition.

"We flipped a coin and it came down to Alexander and it’s an excellent choice," Magnette joked at the end of the presser to present the outcome of the negotiations.

Belgium has had no governing majority for 21 months since the collapse of former leader Charles Michel’s government, and it has been 493 days since federal elections failed to resolve the crisis.
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/01/2020 03:20 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Why can't the Flemish and Walloon just agree that Belgium is dead?
Posted by: magpie || 10/01/2020 4:13 Comments || Top||

#2  Belgium breaking up in the symbolic home of the EUSSR?

Democracy is not the EUSSR way.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 10/01/2020 4:19 Comments || Top||

#3  In a year and a half, we may get the same news....
Posted by: Mercutio || 10/01/2020 7:00 Comments || Top||

#4  Restore my allotted time please.
Posted by: Dale || 10/01/2020 10:29 Comments || Top||

#5  And didn't Belgians go about a year sans a prime minister about 4-6 years ago?

And don't forget the German minority in the Ardennes...three official languages.
Posted by: Clem || 10/01/2020 14:02 Comments || Top||

#6  didn't Belgians go about a year sans a prime minister about 4-6 years ago?

A year and a half starting in 2010, the culmination of nonsense that started in 2007.
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/01/2020 22:43 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
NASA launch may be visible along much of the East Coast
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/01/2020 09:33 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Doesn't look like Fox News or the Science Channel are covering it right now.
Posted by: Raj || 10/01/2020 9:48 Comments || Top||

#2  More taxpayer money up in smoke.
Posted by: Clem || 10/01/2020 10:08 Comments || Top||

#3  I'm sure someone can provide a logical answer, but space exploration provides a benefit to the 'Forgotten Man' how ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/01/2020 10:16 Comments || Top||

#4  how ?

Govt sponsored technology design testbeds prior to commercialization.
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/01/2020 12:55 Comments || Top||

#5  Benefits? Short Answer: we don't know yet and it may all be as irrelevant to survival as most of civilization. IMO it is more important than paying for the educational industry studying Medieval Burgundian Folk Music, but that's just my two cents.
Posted by: magpie || 10/01/2020 13:48 Comments || Top||

#6  Taxpayers shouldn't be paying for Burgundian Folk Music, either.
Posted by: Clem || 10/01/2020 14:04 Comments || Top||

#7  ULA Delta IV launch scrubbed last night for the 5th time over technical issue, seventh time overall in a month. SpaceX launch scrubbed at T -17 sec this morning.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/01/2020 14:08 Comments || Top||

#8  #3 Where would you be now if Isabella didn't hock her jewels?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/01/2020 14:46 Comments || Top||

#9  #3) After the recent discovery of 4 huge masses of water under 3700 feet of ice on Mars ....
A potential place to mine work and make an industrial colony.

Posted by: 3dc || 10/01/2020 15:11 Comments || Top||

#10  Benefits? Short Answer: Tang™
Posted by: SteveS || 10/01/2020 16:23 Comments || Top||

#11  Bartender at The Last Resort in Venusville.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 10/01/2020 17:18 Comments || Top||


How Notre Dame Let Coronavirus "Spread Like Wildfire"
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/01/2020 02:23 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Fewer Homeless Are Choosing Shelters Because of COVID-19
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/01/2020 2:33 Comments || Top||

#2  back in Feb-Apr, I was worried that the Wu would devastate the homeless population when it got here because so many of the homeless used drugs, alcohol, etc.

but as it turned out, I was completely wrong - the homeless have very low case fatality rates - apparently, the diseases they have already encountered have conferred some sort of immunity
Posted by: Lord Garth || 10/01/2020 3:19 Comments || Top||

#3  ^It's like turf wars among gangs. They already have so many pathogens that Johnny Came Lately has no chance.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/01/2020 3:26 Comments || Top||

#4  or perhaps it's just not that deadly for the age group and lots of taxpayer's money was wasted putting them in hotels here in boristan.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 10/01/2020 4:22 Comments || Top||

#5  Credibility, like trust, once gone, is hard to get back G
Posted by: Frank G || 10/01/2020 5:30 Comments || Top||

#6  ^Exactly - that's why I no longer try to reason with you and your fellow covid-sceptics.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/01/2020 5:51 Comments || Top||

#7  There are skeptics and then there are skeptics. We have had a unacceptable amount of GIGO as far as data goes. The health professionals and government bureaucrats have killed a lot of credibility in this event. It's hard to make reasoned decisions and take reasonable actions when too many choose to scream fire in a crowded theater.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/01/2020 6:54 Comments || Top||

#8  Instead of telling us the truth, they chose to lie to us in order to manipulate us to do what they wanted us to do. Case in point: CDC claiming masks didn't protect people in order to hoard masks for their own staff. We all saw it happen and now their credibility is shot.

They're simply untrustworthy. They can and will lie to us if they think the outcome is worthy enough.
Posted by: Muggsy Hapsburg5230 || 10/01/2020 6:58 Comments || Top||

#9  #7,8 You know I didn't mean you. I mean the ideologically motivated.

p.s. Right now, in Israel, we're seeing what happens when you let religious fanatics, lumpen-libertarians, and short-term economic considerations dictate pandemic policy.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/01/2020 7:16 Comments || Top||

#10  Wuhan skeptic? In reality the renowned public knob, St Anthony of Fauci made me a skeptic decades ago with this identical reaction to the AIDS 'epidemic'.

Remember how 'everybody is at equal risk', remember the summer when 'this airborne disease constitutes such a public hazard that everybody should endeavor to remain indoors except for absolute necessity'? I do.

Whatever else, do NOT quarantine the already sick, and most vulnerable. No, none of that. Shut the whole thing down, until, oh who the Hell knows anyway, and small matter since rules are for the little people.

#9 Don't bother. You aren't the first Israeli I've ever heard from and the problem with the Orthodox is the original pre-existing condition which really does not have a universal application.
Posted by: Cesare || 10/01/2020 7:57 Comments || Top||

#11  Haven't heard the "Bring out your Dead!" cries yet so I'll remain skeptical on the wildfire.
Posted by: AlanC || 10/01/2020 8:05 Comments || Top||

#12  is the goal to never spread a virus that from what we can tell has a transmission rate of just about any other virus? and has a mortality rate of just about any other virus?
Posted by: Bob Grorong1136 || 10/01/2020 8:21 Comments || Top||



#15  40% of all coronavirus patients are haredi - Ronni Gamzu

They are 12% of the population

Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/01/2020 14:18 Comments || Top||

#16  back in Feb-Apr, I was worried that the Wu would devastate the homeless population when it got here because so many of the homeless used drugs, alcohol, etc.

but as it turned out, I was completely wrong - the homeless have very low case fatality rates - apparently, the diseases they have already encountered have conferred some sort of immunity


Me too, especially among the ones who do inhalation drugs like meth.

Makes me think that the distancing and actual isolation is doing more harm than good, allowing the immune system to atrophy and make them more susceptible to not just china cough but everything.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 10/01/2020 16:05 Comments || Top||


-PC Follies
Navy removes gendered language from SEAL ethos: report
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/01/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I would not normally speak ill of of our armed forces (my father having served in the Navy in Korea), but have they turned into a bunch of fags?
Posted by: Raj || 10/01/2020 0:41 Comments || Top||

#2  Next, all male SEALs will be required to have their balls removed in order to avoid gendered biology.

We really need a chistka for the "leadership" in the armed forces.
Posted by: charger || 10/01/2020 10:43 Comments || Top||


Science
4 very large under ice bodies of water discovered on Mars.
[UPI] Planetary scientists say in a new report that Mars has four subsurface lakes, which could be a habitat for life.

After finding one location where water may be buried in 2018, researchers did a more detailed analysis of the region using radar data from the spacecraft Mars Express. The new study used data sets from 134 observations from 2012 to 2019, said the report published Monday in Nature Astronomy.

"We identified the same body of water, but we also found three other bodies of water around the main one," planetary scientist Elena Pettinelli of the University of Rome, a lead co-author of the report, said in a statement. "It's a complex system."

The spacecraft used a radar system called the Mars Advanced Radar for Subsurface and Ionosphere Sounding to examine the planet's southern polar region. The radar bounces radio waves off layers of material on the planet's surface and subsurface.

It can detect the presents of rock, ice or water from the way the signal is reflected back. A similar method is used to find subsurface glacial lakes on Earth. The result on Mars indicated liquid water was trapped under more than 3,280 feet of ice.

Researchers said the largest lake spans about nearly 19 miles across and is surrounded by the three smaller lakes. All four lakes cover about 46,600 square miles.

On Earth, such subglacial lakes have contained life but there would need to be a reasonable amount of salt available for the water to remain a liquid.
Posted by: 3dc || 10/01/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Michael Valentine Smith couldn't be reached for comment.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/01/2020 2:17 Comments || Top||

#2  Michael Valentine Smith

:-)
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/01/2020 11:07 Comments || Top||

#3  Commander Christopher Draper could not be reached for comment.
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#4  P2k, relevance?
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#5  Good. One less thing we'll have to take when we go there.
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#6  Get your ass to Mars.
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#7  Robinson Crusoe on Mars (1964)
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#8  one of my fav movies as a kid
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