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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.'"

16 of 351 comments (clear)

  1. Viscera. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Enjoy Viscera!

  2. Viable business-models? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    This is totally offtopic but I hope someone wants to answer anyway. It's kind of important.

    We have a upcoming software release of a new very neat project. It was a while since I checked the open source field out and I want to know if there has been any progress in the economic field when it comes to open source software yet?

    Last time we evaluated open source, companies and people developing open source software mainly became free labour for Redhat and really didn't make much money to support their businesses in the long run.

    Have there been any progress the last couple of years? Any realistic business-models that have emerged yet (in other words, not unrealistic ones based on service&support for example)?

    1. Re:Viable business-models? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      For short, should be adopt open source or continue releasing closed source?

    2. Re:Viable business-models? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Open-source is about something greater than business models. It's about listening to what people want and giving them 5 different choices of how to do it and allowing the people to decide which is best. Then the next generation comes in and makes the same thing even better. Take Mozilla (The browser I'm using as we speak). Mozilla took 4 years and is only a version 1.0 but it is comparable to the latest versions of Internet Explorer and Netscape in most regards. Some people wanted a different kind of browser not owned by big business and they got it.

      If you're looking for viable business models try nanotech or something more hyped.

    3. Re:Viable business-models? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      So we should continue closed source in other words.

    4. Re:Viable business-models? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      nanotech is old shit. try picotech. (btw. most of current "nanotech" is actually microtech).

    5. Re:Viable business-models? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      So your advice is that if you want to make a living on software you should do closed source?

  3. texaco by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    did anyone else read that as texaco and new mexico?

  4. Re:the bible was WRONG by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Whoever modded this down is going to Hell. The Bible says it.

    "The foolish shall not stand in thy sight, thou hatest all workers of iniquity." Psalm 5:5

  5. Re:Catastrophic? by GigsVT · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Taking pedantry even further, your definitions all have one key word in them, "earth". :)

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  6. Re:Rlated Article on BBC by Tomster · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    >Just you're average nitpicker.

    That should be "your", not "you're".

    -- Just your average anal-retentive nitpicker. :)

  7. Re:Hmm... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Mod of 4? WTF???

    Ok, this poster was just trying to make a joke. I get it. Water is often used for bathing. Bathing is nude. So, it's a natural association to make: lakes and naked women.

    So, the joke is fine. But a mod of ... FOUR? I mean, I didn't even smirk when I read the joke.

    Now, let's compare this so some other posts that offer scientific commentary, links to other sites not listed in the article, etc.

    I suppose that what's next is a "best fart noise" contest for /.

  8. Re:the bible was right... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Repeat after me.
    Do not feed the YEC trolls!
    Next thing you know we'll get right back into that preposterous scenario where YEC's have Kangaroos "belly surfing supersonic tidal waves to Australia" as a way to explain marsupial distribution "post flood".

  9. How can this be overrated? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic


    Doens't overrated mean that something has been rated far to highly? I could understand Off-Topic, maybe Troll (Which would be a stretch...), but overrated makes not a single drop of sense until after it has been rated...

    What's up with that moderator?

  10. Re:Hmm... by spauldo · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Nope, orion women had 2 breasts. It's the human mutants on mars who grow a third breast.

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  11. Re:the bible was right... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    You said
    I think there is reasonable doubt about the possibility of a flood that covers ALL mountains
    So why are there fossillized sea creatures on top of Mt. Everest?

    Just from the earth's magnetic field rate of decrease alone, there is ample evidence for a very young (~6000 years) earth indeed. Why object to something that has hard scientific evidence like Po halos?