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Water on Mars - Clues to Life?
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)."
That's what all of the canals were for...
Duh.
Cheers,
Jim in Tokyo
-- My Weblog.
Isn't there ice on Mars? Where there's ice, there's usually something frozen (oft water...).
... oh I've said too much already...
Who's up for bottling the stuff and reselling it here on Earth?! Forget that $1/bottle outa the New York tap stuff, we're talkin' $5,000 per bottle, extremely limited supply, right off the space ship! Hasn't been touched since man kind migrated off of Mars when it blew out of an opposing orbit from Earth and
Once you sign the NDA, we'll talk... Drop an email to ac1@slashdot....
From whose perspective is this stuff written? The Grand Canyon?
Well, that would have been Naoh's flood. Seems when the Bibles were passed around, there was a screwup and we got Mars's bible.
/our/ bible, they worshipped the wrong things and had the wrong commandments, and overall just really pissed their God off.
Of course since they were following
When they built the great Face, as instructed in page 23 in their bible, and completed orgy ceremony Part B, subsection 42, it began snowing
carbon dioxide and that was the end of them.
"Mars is essentially in the same orbit . . . Mars is somewhat the same distance from the Sun, which is very important. We have seen pictures where there are canals, we believe, and water. If there is water, that means there is oxygen. If oxygen, that means we can breathe."
Dan "What a waste it is to lose one's mind" Quayle
(source)
"There are already a million monkeys on a million typewriters, and Usenet is NOTHING like Shakespeare." - Blair Houghton
"so, what kind of event could have happened 10M years ago, leaving traces of unusual water floods on two planets?
Perhaps an alien expedition taking samples?"
Perhaps an alien expedition taking a leak?
I bet you get a lot of "Last gas for 100 light-years" signs in deep space. Then you've got to put up with the kids crying "Are we nearly there yet?!" every time you go past some insignificant little main-sequence star. Not to mention us men hate asking directions, so before you know it, you're in completely the wrong constellation.
Maran
we might actually one day hope to find intelligent life in this solar system?
finally!
"It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once." -David Hume
That's fine and all, but what I really want to know is how these "simple forms of life" end up getting to Earth and acquiring jobs as managers and politicians...
This is big news, because it may lead to finding some simple forms of life on the planet
Like marketing executives?
I still find it cute that certain scientists believe in the possibility/likelihood of:
1. A bacterium surviving the impact of a meteor hitting Mars. The size of that meteor must have been considerable to survive through the Mars atmosphere.
2. Some piece of rock being thrown back into space, and at sufficient speed to overcome Mars' gravity and low enough to not melt because of friction against the air.
3. That piece actually having a surviving bacterium.
4. That piece actually hitting Earth.
5. Scientists actually finding that unlikely piece of Mars on Earth, in dirt.
6. Finding that that highly unlikely piece of Mars contains unknown form of life.
7. Finding a president who actually believes you are on the right track and is ready to pay for your continued research.
Out of these I find step 7 the most probable.
Water on Mars? Now we can send the next batch of Survivor to the Red Planet.
I think we all know why water gushed out on to the surface of Mars; one of the pipes supplying water to the subterranean civilisation must have burst. I think it is obvious from all the facts (ie. 1950s B movies, War of the Worlds, wild speculation) that there are people living under the surface of Mars where it is toasty warm.
Also, I can bend spoons with my mind.
I think the Martians just got too enamoured with their SUVs and jetskis (on their former canals and lakes). The pollution caused massive global warming. The water and atmosphere evaporated into space, thus removing the planet's 'blanket.' Then everything froze. Now they're living underground driving battery powered golf carts...