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Water on Mars - Clues to Life?

Posted by timothy on from the red-juicy-planet dept.

PHPee writes: "Reports of water on Mars say that huge amounts of water gushed through the surface of the red planet fairly 'recently'. (Recently being as little as 10 million years ago) This is big news, because it may lead to finding some simple forms of life on the planet. For more info, check out: (story #1) and (story #2)."

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  1. Who cares! by KDENCE · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Simple lifeforms? We've got plenty of those here. My goodness I cannot believe that we spend so much time and money studying the variables of the universe, like the subject says who cares or gives a rip? I sure don't. I don't see how this is going to help us at all. It is amazing that the same liberals that support space exploration don't support a Star Wars like Missile Defense program. Sure we can look for others planets to bail out to in 5 million years, but we can't protect the planet we live in now. Anyway, that is a little off topic, but I just hope that people realize the absurdity of space exploration and space research of any sort. Beam me up scotty!