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Digging Deep for the Real Mars

Posted by michael on from the red-gold dept.

technodude writes: "Wired has an article on a Canadian company working on an automated drilling system that they hope someday will be able to drill core samples on Mars. Ok, let's say they do this, get it all the way to Mars only to find out after drilling 30 feet beneath the surface there was a large cavernous area that had an oxygen/nitrogen atmosphere and a large population of underground dwellers!!" Um... apologize and hope they don't have any interplanetary weaponry?

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  1. Boring Canadians by cheezehead · · Score: 3, Funny

    From the article:

    The Canadian Space Agency has unveiled new technology that could one day see boring Canadians on Mars.

    That's uncalled for! I've been to Canada, and Canadians aren't boring at all (quite the opposite)!

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  2. Re:apologize?! by cheezehead · · Score: 2, Funny

    Sure, but in which language?

    Well, either English or French. Guess we'll have to wait for the Canadians to figure that out first.

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  3. Finally by trollbot · · Score: 3, Funny

    Seems like I've been reading about this for years. Glad to see it finally becoming reality.

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  4. In my worst nightmares by Tablizer · · Score: 2, Funny
    a Canadian company working on an automated drilling system that they hope someday will be able to drill core samples on Mars....

    Please God, don't let dentists get ahold of this technology.

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