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Aloha Mars - The Advanced Course

spacedaily.com: "My friend Dr. X is really getting interested in Mars. Yesterday he challenged me about those mysterious spherical beads at the Opportunity landing site. 'The MER guys are struggling to choose between a bunch of wildly different explanations. I suppose you have an instant snap analysis of them based on your crazy Aloha Mars model that relates everything on Mars to something in Hawaii.'

'Sure. They are lava spherules ejected by a violent late-stage volcanic eruption. It's intuitively obvious.'



'How does Aloha Mars lead you to that conclusion? There is nothing like those spheres anywhere in Hawaii as far as I know. Certainly not between your house and the nearest strip mall, which seems to be the limit of your field expeditions.'

'I sense that you are a thoughtful open-minded person who is ready for graduate-level instruction in Aloha Mars doctrine. So here is a more advanced method for instant snap analysis of Mars:

'Mars is intermediate between Hawaii and the Moon in most physical properties (gravity, air, age, volatile abundance). So we Aloha Martians always look for some combination of Hawaiian and lunar processes to explain any odd details on Mars that don't have an exact local analog. I'm sure you are familiar with the volcanic glass spheres that occur on the Moon.........."

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