water and continents on Mars
Going through some recent antiques I acquired, I was flipping through a magazine from February 1890, named Demorest's Family Magazine. It is mostly a fashion type magazine. What caught my attention was an article named A Voyage Through Space. I was sort of curious what they thought back then about space and read through it.I thought it was kinda funny about the planet Venus. They mention that the ancient people knew it as "Dawnbringer" (in Latin, Lucifer). Is that why women are suppose to be from Venus?
Anyway, I got on to the information about Mars. They mention with the telescopes they have (during the late 1800's), Mars was the planet they had the most detailed information about its surface.
I am going to highlight some of the interesting things it says in this article about Mars:
They say, besides the moon, Mars is the only heavenly body that the surface has been mapped.
Surface is covered with lighter and darker spots, some spots are unchanging, and are solid and definitely parts of Mar's surface. Others alter and vary considerably and therefore must be the nature of clouds.
We can with safety aver that Mars, like earth, contains seas, continents, and islands, as well as an atmosphere containing water vapor in the shape of clouds.
The changes of seasons, and especially the variableness of the snow and ice at the poles of Mars, can be watched by astronomers.
At both poles of the planet are two white, shining spots of which usually only one is visible at a time. These poles do change with the seasons. (winter they grow bigger, summer they melt and get smaller)
Thus, we know there is snow and ice on Mars and clouds arise from it clearly seen.
It has long been known that continents, seas,and rivers compose Mar's surface.
On Mars, there are many conditions for life as we know it, and we have therefore some reason to suppose that there are beings similar to ourselves.
In last few years, Italian astronomer Schiaparelli...provided a drawing of Mar's surface showing: dark bodies of water, and brighter continents.
On Mars, continents are separated by narrow bodies of water.
A strange discovery by Schiaparelli shows the water canals double...each canal is precisely similar to each other...running parallel. This is seen depending on the season and remains an enigma.
That is about it in this article.
Some interesting stuff I thought from 1890....much of which I have not heard anything about in today's age.
Comments (103)
Aunt teaks ,just old,mold,...sold!! ::roll:
this is great that you got all this information. I want to move away from where I live in the near future, and this gives me some options besides Earth.
I do believe there is intelligent life out there, and another livable world for humans out there too. Seriously.
There is a great American Debater who once predicted all this, and let me tell ya, that guy's words are gospel.
Well, sort of.
I've been into Antiques for a long time. When I was a kid, one of my friends told me, "hey, can you stop staring at my mom so much."
I was talking with a guy the other night...we both agreed, it would be somewhat crazy to not believe there is intelligent life somewhere out there.
Real estate on Mars might be cheap right now Robert. The early bird gets the worm.
Old,mold,aunt teak....RARE!!! THATS THE TICKET!!
I once bought some wooden furniture thing that looked like two toilets together from a lady I knew who had an antiques store that rarely had customers, so I'd visit, spend lots of money, and she was able to pay the store rent.
Anyways, that furniture thing I bought, I researched and found out it was a cooker type thing from back at the turn of the century.
Women would put hot rocks and meat in a sack in there.. and close the lids.. let the meat cook all day or more than a day. It was kind of like cooking meat underground... but in these wooden chests with lids on them.
They were only made for one year or so, because women did not like them. Guys who hunted liked them, but their wives did not. So, they were discontinued. I eventually sold the one I had.
True story.
Women didn't like it....they discontinue it after a year....turn of the century....and women say they have no voice.
This blog might be more about picking on women more than anything.
She offered me some, but I told her to sell them on Ettsy instead. Health or natural foods might sell better there or someplace like that.
I also once bought rare behind the scene pictures from the first star wars movie. about 50 pics. Each one had the negative too.
One had where George Lucas sitting on a directors chair talking with that guy that played Obi-won Kenobi.
I bought them on ebay at the time, the seller had them in the home furnishings category, as framable photos, instead of having them in the movie memorabilia category. I made good money when I resold those.
You use them droppings too instead of chocolate chips?
Wow, this fad is catching on.
Time to invest in this growing trend, Johnny.
I'd like to find them old wooden teeth they had back in George Washington's day.
My dentist wants to put in all new teeth for me soon. Cool, huh?
Then, after he does that, he wants to braces on my teeth too.
What was that Ash, the Lucifers what scrambled eggs, or their eggs scrambled over easy?
there's still people who sell valuables cheap. The situation is, for instance, I went to an Antiques Glass and Ceramics show. The sellers value glass and ceramic items.
yet, this one lady had a box of maps.. and inside there was also lots of memorabilia from Gone With The Wind, and other such old stuff.
She sold them to me for 3 dollars each... including a brooch that theaters sold at one of the Gone With Wind Premiere showings. I spent 64 dollars in all.
Later sold it all... for about 1800. Each item sold for anywhere from 65 to 180
get the jump on it. I'm going to sleep on it. Mah nest. Egg.
I knew people that had Braces. I don't think they ever used tooth picks. They would just leave food caught in there from lunch and eat it as snacks between lunch and dinner.
Starter Kits? What are you talking about?
Oh, I see.. those are mentioned in The Birds & Bees Book. Those things hum too loud, don't they?
Speaking of sleep, it is getting about that time here.
Thanks all...interesting, fun, and educating all in one blog....that is truly rare, moreso than a mouse next in an action figure box.
Good night all...been fun. :)
Oh, alright. Good night Ashy, Johnny.
have some good dreams and see you all tomorrow.. or sometime.