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Evidence Found of Lake, Catastrophic Flood on Mars

Posted by timothy on from the giant-waterfight dept.

angkor points to this article on spaceflightnow.com, excerpting: "Scientists 'have discovered a large former lake in the highlands of Mars that would cover an area the size of Texas and New Mexico combined.'"

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  1. the bible was right... by RogueProtoKol · · Score: 4, Funny

    ... except the massive flood which lasted 40 days and 40 nights was on mars not earth! now i wonder what happened to noah and all the animals?

  2. fire water burn by ComaVN · · Score: 5, Funny

    Of course, it would be more useful to cover arizona and colorado with a lake at the moment.

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  3. Texas by selderrr · · Score: 5, Funny

    What is it with texas these days ? ./ seems to measure anything extraterestrial in STU (Standard Texas Units).

    Just for clarity : is this a metric unit ? Can we count in Millitexi, picotexi, GIGATEXI (drooldrool) ?

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    1. Re:Texas by Rhinobird · · Score: 5, Funny

      No it's an English unit. See there is the base Standard Texas Unit (STU) which is sub-divided into 4840 square Rhode Islands (RI). Each Rhode Island is of course 160 square Country Miles. (as opposed to a regular mile) Each coutry mile is divided into 220 City blocks. Eventually you end up with smidgeons and skoshies.

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    2. Re:Texas by JabberWokky · · Score: 5, Funny
      One Belgium is .346 of a Texas in standard notation, (if following the Mornington rules) although can be .347 in high season.

      Y'all should just adopt the Southern Standard of Measurement. In the American Deep South, we only have one unit, the yonder, which can be applied to any distance easily... since the space between any two points is always equal to precisely one yonder. The wrench is in the toolchest over yonder, and the city of San Francisco is over yonder thataway, and eta Ursae Majoris is up yonder.

      The square yonder doesn't exist. Area is generally defined by it's boundaries - trees, roads, creeks, churches and bars. Don't even start to ask about a cubic yonder. Volume is the domain of women, who use a wide variety of terms such as smidgen, speck, dollop, drown and drop, all used only in cooking and baking.

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  4. Hmm... by muzzmac · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm not interested until they find a Martian nudist beach.

    I love those Martian chicks!

  5. That's easy by Ethelred+Unraed · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... except the massive flood which lasted 40 days and 40 nights was on mars not earth! now i wonder what happened to noah and all the animals?

    That's easy. Noah's Ark was a spaceship. Duh!

    Which reminds me of a German cartoon (http://www.nichtlustig.de/) recently: one sees the Ark in the background, and in the foreground is a small raft with a prophet-like guy and two unicorns. The caption reads "Noah's rival Ishmael was rather less successful", and one of the unicorns says to Ishmael, "By the way, we're gay."

    Cheers,

    Ethelred

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  6. New mexico??? by sofar · · Score: 5, Funny

    'the size of Texas and New Mexico combined.'

    FYI, the European version of the article translates this into:

    'the size of France'

  7. Rhode Island by overunderunderdone · · Score: 5, Funny

    As a resident of Rhode Island I'm terrified of the possibility that one of those floods "the size of Rhode Island" or wildfires "the size of Rhode Island" will someday actually happen IN Rhode Island.