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jmetaB0265812cae7778ba1350efd82a274aa35ae9130243b770806acafb5cd4cc623580@6e310a0579acad2cd4035426f1abe6c508d443dd4241600efb7c245ddb21c7da atom.entrymetarss.netM<entry> <title type="text">Is Mars Habitable? (1907)</title> <id>https://people.wku.edu/charles.smith/wallace/S730.htm</id> <updated>2024-07-19T23:30:30.592756Z</updated> <link href="https://people.wku.edu/charles.smith/wallace/S730.htm"/> <author> <name>kimmk</name> <uri>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=kimmk</uri> </author> <content type="html">&lt;img src=&#34;https://people.wku.edu/charles.smith/pics/S730a.jpg&#34; style=&#34;width: 220px; height: 256px;&#34; /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Alfred Russel Wallace&#39;s book &#34;Is Mars Habitable?&#34; (1907) challenges Professor Percival Lowell&#39;s theory that Mars has canals built by intelligent beings for irrigation, arguing that the planet&#39;s surface is too dry and the canals are not feasible. Wallace presents his own explanation for the Martian features, suggesting that they are natural and not artificial, and criticizes Lowell&#39;s theory as ... &lt;a href=&#34;https://hackernews.betacat.io/#is-mars-habitable-1907&#34; target=&#34;_blank&#34;&gt;[summary]&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&#34;https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40981078&#34; target=&#34;_blank&#34;&gt;[comments]&lt;/a&gt;</content> </entry>