Mars STINKS worse than vomit, diarhea and arm pits!

[G-man Joe]

<div style='font: 11pt "Fine Hand"; text-align: left; '><b>Link:</b> <a href="http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=s ... tputrid</a>

Mars STINKS worse than vomit, diarhea and arm pits!</div>

[SineSwiper]

<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>That would imply that Mars had air, which it doesn't. The journalist didn't RTFA.</div>

[G-man Joe]

<div style='font: 11pt "Fine Hand"; text-align: left; '>Those are gases, Sine. Just like Earth's air is a combination of gases. Add 2 points to your IQ, thanks to me.</div>

[Flip]

<div style='font: 12pt "Cooper Black"; text-align: left; '>Any planet with an atmosphere (i.e. mercury and venus) have gases. That doesnt make it breathable air, however. I know your stance is that college is uneeded and you may be right, but you cant deny it makes people a little more well rounded...</div>

[Kupek]

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>Actually, Mercury barely has an atmosphere to speak of - number density of particles around 10^-6 cm^-3. It's too close to the sun and too small to retain atmospheric gases.</div>

[Kupek]

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>I don't even know what you're trying to say.</div>

[Flip]

<div style='font: 12pt "Cooper Black"; text-align: left; '>Barely still means it does!!! : )</div>

[Kupek]

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>It's slight enough that pictures of the planet look quite a lot like pictures of the moon.</div>

[G-man Joe]

<div style='font: 11pt "Fine Hand"; text-align: left; '>Maybe he thinks "air" is a required umm.....thingy.....for gases to be in. "Thingy" is yet to be scientifically proven, BTW. Sine's working on the Thesis as we speak.</div>

[SineSwiper]

<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>I thought Mars didn't have an atmosphere, but it does have a very thin one (100x less than Earth). In any case, you can't really smell anything on Mars.</div>

[SineSwiper]

<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '><b>Link:</b> <a href="http://zebu.uoregon.edu/~soper/Mars/atm ... Atmosphere of Mars</a>

If you call those fractional numbers gases. The sulfur is in solid form, anyway. In order to get the hydrogen sulphide gas, you would need water. I think they should worry about finding water, first.</div>

[SineSwiper]

<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>I never said that college wasn't needed. I just think that college is not for everybody, and you should at least give yourself a few years of real life first before you jump in.</div>

[Kupek]

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>I considered that too, but the compounds they're talking about might not need that level of concentration in order for our noses to detect them. And the reason Mar's atmosphere is so thin is because it's only about 10% as massive as the Earth.</div>