h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

The possible explanation for:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8186314.stm

What do you think?

Well methane used to be called marsh(ian) gas

That sounds entirely feasible. There is an invisible hedgehog that follows me around and occasionally emits a whiff of methane. It's probably something like that.

RF

hmmm... maybe its the waters of mars

so the first astronaut to land on Mars will have to be called Alf Hart then

talk about winds of change

To my mind, the unanswered question is whether the methane is actually originating on mars, or if it is that mars is downwind of us.



...and if that is what caused the inhabitants to flee.

in that case we could blame 2legs

methane, shouldn't the correct grammar be mythane ?

"At one point, the primary plume of methane contained an estimated 19,000 tonnes of the gas."

- They must have had one helluva curry!

Oh, and ReddyFreddy?

DINSDALE!!!

All male responses!I do wonder about the male/female differences sometimes. If I'd have posted something about Venus I wonder if all girls would have dropped by?

dunno - but i would

I have to do

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"There is an invisible hedgehog that follows me around and occasionally emits a whiff of methane."

There's a pretty easy way of making it visible... *lights match*

KA-BOOOOM!