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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....
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.