Worm On Mars

[ArMaP]

unlike the rocks with the huge sand trails then .. remember them from a few years back ?

No, I don't remember which ones you're talking about, were they the same size as this rock?

is this some form of doublethink your suffering with ?

No, different things make me have different thoughts, I don't try to fit an explanation to all things.

[funbox]

No, I don't remember which ones you're talking about, were they the same size as this rock?
No, different things make me have different thoughts, I don't try to fit an explanation to all things.

no. they were marginally larger, but you explained the resulting trails as wind perturbation .. so why, do we see not, the same effect on the dunette which lays directly underneath.. or did perchance the wormy thing appear after the dunette had formed, and didn't have a chance to influence its form ?

read just before this page too ..http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread990645/pg114

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the question I now have, is why have you accepted in this hypothesis that that's a duneete or wind shaped form under wormy thing...

curious

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[ArMaP]

no. they were marginally larger, but you explained the resulting trails as wind perturbation ..

I'll talk about them when you can show them to me, I'm not going to talk about something I don't remember.

so why, do we see not, the same effect on the dunette which lays directly underneath..

As I said, different conditions create different dunes, if the wind comes from the left how can the rock influence the dune?

or did perchance the wormy thing appear after the dunette had formed, and didn't have a chance to influence its form ?

I doubt it.

read just before this page too ..http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread990645/pg114

I read your post before looking at that page, but I didn't read all the posts in that page, as I'm tired of your charades. If you want to read something specific say so, don't make me lose time.

Edited to say that it looks like the wind comes from the right.

[ArMaP]

the question I now have, is why have you accepted in this hypothesis that that's a duneete or wind shaped form under wormy thing...

If not a small dune, what could it be?

[Eighthman]

Perhaps I'm confused here but I am curious as to what created the 'worm cast' and not what exposed it.  Wind, water, whatever likely did that but i can't think of similar non-biological stuff on earth.

[Norval]

hmmmm are these the moving rocks ?

I do find them a bit enigmatic, , , ,

[funbox]

I read your post before looking at that page, but I didn't read all the posts in that page, as I'm tired of your charades. If you want to read something specific say so, don't make me lose time.

the post with the rock slide is at the very top of the page . your comments about the rock trail are on the page before... lose time ArMaP ? lose it where?

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[ArMaP]

Perhaps I'm confused here but I am curious as to what created the 'worm cast' and not what exposed it.

One possibility I see is an infiltration of some material in a crack on another rocks or on the ground. When the other rock or that part of the ground was eroded, this, harder, rock remained.
That type of thing is common on Earth, like a lava flow that lasts longer than the volcano from where it came.

[ArMaP]

hmmmm are these the moving rocks ?

Those do not look like rocks, they look more like landslides.

I do find them a bit enigmatic, , , ,

They are.

[ArMaP]

the post with the rock slide is at the very top of the page .

OK, I see it, thanks.

your comments about the rock trail are on the page before...

Those I don't see, either on the page before, that page or on the page after.

lose time ArMaP ? lose it where?

Looking for what you're talking about, as you can see in the above sentence.

[Eighthman]

Hard to tell from the photo but it looks 'roundish' rather than sharp or angular in the way that a crack might be filled......and are we saying that these rocks are igneous?  Looks sorta sedimentary to me.

The 'wormcast' looks like when molten metal gets poured into an ant colony.  Appears odd relative to flat, weather beaten surroundings - although that might support your lava notion as something quite hard and resistant -hence its odd appearance.

[ArMaP]

Hard to tell from the photo but it looks 'roundish' rather than sharp or angular in the way that a crack might be filled......and are we saying that these rocks are igneous?  Looks sorta sedimentary to me.

No, I'm not saying they are igneous, I'm thinking about something like a kind of a "fossil crack".
I was thinking about some liquid with a high salt concentration, for example, occupying a crack and crystallizing.

[funbox]

OK, I see it, thanks.
Those I don't see, either on the page before, that page or on the page after.
Looking for what you're talking about, as you can see in the above sentence.

im sure you'll find them , you know how fast that thread went sometimes, most of the anomalies never got talked about much because of the rate of finds, so you might have to go back a bit.. but now you think landslide... don't you want to know what you said before? get to know yourself a bit ? ive certainly referred to your opinions on the rock and markings on that very page ive linked .. hardly unlikely im going to misquote you in mid thread .. it wouldn't be worth it

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[Eighthman]

But.....if the 'wormcast' is made of crystalline material yet formed into a long roundish shape, how could it exist as we see it?  I would think such a thing would be extremely fragile and easily degraded into dust by whatever wind/water/temperature/ radiation eroded the general scene.  A single crystal, yes ,but that's not the shape here.

And it still doesn't look like it was molded from a crack. If the surrounding rock is from layered sediment as it appears, how would such a crack be created.  It should be flat and wide, if at all.

I wonder if it needs to be something that was plastic in the past.  If we rule out igneous, then I wonder about something organic.  I am searching my memory for any non-biological process that ends up looking anything like this and I come up short (except lava or fulgurite)

My backyard is full of shale. I never see anything like this unless it's a root or conversely the hollow of an insect burrow.