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Something found on mars?
Its not westerns that arent real westerns, is it?!!!
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Good one.
And dedicated to Rory.
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Oh, even bigger microbes? More evidence of water?
You know that's what it will be along the lines of. In other words: boring.
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Was it Bill Carson? Maybe he got lost coming to America.
Good one edw. Savage but a good one 
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Jun 8, 2018 - 10:40 AM
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Grecchus
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When it comes to navigation on earth AND in space, the lights are Red on the Left and Green on the Right. Assuming your own red light is to your left, if you look to your left and you see Red, the object is moving in the opposite direction to yourself. The same is exactly true for an observer in the object you can see. If you look to your left and you see Green, the object is moving in the same direction as yourself.
Just think "Port is Red (port side) and Left, Green is Star (starboard side) and Right.
When Titanic was sinking, the watch officers of the Californian could see the stricken ship, way off in the distance. In addition to the rows of portholes running along the length of Titanic's side, they could see the unique navigation lights situated on the level of the flying bridge, one on each side. When Titanic's massive engines were stopped, the watchmen on the Californian saw the red and green lights alternately coming from Titanic. That means Titanic spun around in an arc after the iceberg collision, with respect to their viewpoint. It appears that captain Lord first saw Titanic's green starboard light from the Californian before retiring for the night, but that the watch officers later saw a red light. Since both ships were both initially moving westwards, this gives provisional information concerning their respective headings and goes to show how important navigation lights on ships, planes and spacecraft actually are. The Californian observers also noticed something else about Titanic. As the ship's stern rose higher and higher, with the bow dipping lower and lower below the surface, those rows of portholes assumed a very "peculiar" angle to the horizontal surface of the sea, leaving them feeling something was not right. Obviously, they realised the 'big' ship they could see several miles away could be sinking in front of their very eyes.
The captain of the Californian was blamed for not going to Titanic's immediate aide, however, he had stopped his ship for the night because it was completely surrounded by ice. If only Titanic had done the same?
Edit: There is this Wikipedia entry on the Titanic/Californian story. I forgot to mention the Californian watch officers also clearly saw Titanic's Distress Rockets. It seems the Californian's inaction was down to perceived risk to the ship had it got under way in those prevailing conditions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Californian
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