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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. Netcraft Confirms : "Science: Water on Mars - Clue by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    Yet another crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered Science: Water on Mars - Clues to Life? community when last month IDC confirmed that Science: Water on Mars - Clues to Life? accounts for less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of the latest Netcraft survey which plainly states that Science: Water on Mars - Clues to Life? has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Science: Water on Mars - Clues to Life? is collapsing in complete disarray, as further exemplified by failing dead last [sysadminmag.com] in th recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.

    You don't need to be a Kreskin [amdest.com] to predict Science: Water on Mars - Clues to Life?'s future. The hand writing is on the wall: Science: Water on Mars - Clues to Life? faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Science: Water on Mars - Clues to Life? because Science: Water on Mars - Clues to Life? is dying. Things are looking very bad for Science: Water on Mars - Clues to Life?. As many of us are already aware, Science: Water on Mars - Clues to Life? continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood. FreeBSD is the most endangered of them all.

    Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.

    OpenBSD leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenBSD. How many users of NetBSD are there? Let's see. The number of OpenBSD versus NetBSD posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetBSD users. BSD/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NetBSD posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of BSD/OS. A recent article put FreeBSD at about 80 percent of the Science: Water on Mars - Clues to Life? market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeBSD users. This is consistent with the number of FreeBSD Usenet posts.

    Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeBSD went out of business and was taken over by BSDI who sell another troubled OS. Now BSDI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.

    All major surveys show that Science: Water on Mars - Clues to Life? has steadily declined in market share. Science: Water on Mars - Clues to Life? is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If Science: Water on Mars - Clues to Life? is to survive at all it will be among OS hobbyist dabblers. Science: Water on Mars - Clues to Life? continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Science: Water on Mars - Clues to Life? is dead.

    Science: Water on Mars - Clues to Life? is dying

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  2. WARNING: GOATSE.CX LINK!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Moderators, you know what to do.

  3. FUCKY PLEASE READ by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Dear Fucky,

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