Website Review

Website Review Assignment

Shelby Ramirez
February 4, 2007
Mars Exploration

Trying to figure out things about Mars can be tricky. We have to use our imaginations and explore the seemingly impossible boundaries. Though imagination is important I think that sometimes it can be taken too far. For example Hoagland and his fossil theory is a stretch of the imagination.
Looking over the pictures on the Enterprise Mission website I can see how the picture Hoagland believed to be a fossil could have been, but I still remain a skeptic. The fact that there wouldn’t have been more research done adds to my skepticism. The microscope obliterated the fossil so it makes it hard to be able to go back and debate the reality of a fossil or not. As for all the responses Hoagland got to the Calhoun pictures, I think it’s more about people just want to be believers. Like it said on the video we watched in class there was a rash of alien and UFO sightings after the Mars fad.
Now that the world has heard of Mars and taken a serious interest they want to be more educated. From the Mars Society website it seems that Zubrin has become a popular author or information source when dealing with Mars. Zubrin was invited to go lecture in China. The two leaders China and the United States finally meet eye to eye on Mars Exploration. Educating China about Mars will help breed healthy competition and funding for Mars Exploration.