22 May
2007
22 May
'07
7:50 a.m.
This NASA headline caught my eye: "Mars Rover Spirit Unearths Surprise Evidence of Wetter Past" That just doesn't sound right at all. Wouldn't Spirit have to "unmars" surprise evidence of a wetter past? Will the term "earth", when referring to soil, be carried to other worlds, or do we need a new, more universally correct term? This can be extended to geology. Will a geologist still be a geologist when he/she is working on Mars? Or will they be an areologist? Will future residents of Tau Ceti bask in "sunshine", or possibly get "sunburned"? Nit-picky stuff for a Tuesday morning. I need to find something to do, quickly... ;o)