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Ice Detected Underneath Mars' North Pole
TheSync writes "A Reuters/Yahoo story says University of Arizona and Russian scientists have detected water ice uniformly distributed in the soil of Mars' north polar regions. The amount of hydrogen detected indicates ice of 80% to 90% of soil volume. Data was used from the Mars Global Surveyor and Mars Odyssey." It's worth noting that their study only detected large amounts of hydrogen; so much hydrogen that ice is figured to be the only form it could be in, although I kind of like the idea of Mars' pole covering a huge pocket of hydrogen gas.
Or have they already got their greedy hands on it!?
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Hey! Did you know that all American prisons are now installing windows on their computer systems?
It is because windows always LOCKS UP!!!!!!!
I just heard some sad news on talk radio - Former South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond was found dead in the hospital this morning. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss him - even if you didn't enjoy his work, there's no denying his contributions to segregation and politics. Truly an American icon.
But to give crap about this has me beat.
Anyone wana play Doom III?
--- Every day I am forced to add another to the list of people who can kiss my ass...
Dear slashdot members,
There is a sinister, wretched cancer growing upon the very fabric of
American culture. It is eating away at our morals, our health, our
safety, and most of all, our spirituality. It operates behind
carefully constructed veils such as "freedom of speech" and "moral
relativism." I'm, of course, talking about none other than the liberal
agenda. The nay-sayers. The blame-America-firsters. The political
dissidents.
Before I go on, I would like to make it clear that it was not too long
ago that I was very optimistic with, what I saw, as perhaps a new
direction our country was taking. This optimism emerged shortly after
the 9-11 tragedy, when I looked down the street and saw Henry Parker,
the neighborhood's most outspoken liberal, putting a flag outside his
door. In my optimism, I reasoned that a tragedy of this magnitude
should wake up even the most radical liberal permanently! In reality,
of course, his flag is long gone and he, as well as millions of his
other fellow leftists, has reverted back to their un-American
activities.
During times of peace, perhaps the activities of these iconoclastic
"citizens" can be tolerated. But when our children live with the
threatening knife of terrorism poised at their throat, our tolerance
must be waived. Ann Coulter put this much more eloquently than I, when
she recently stated that "We need to execute people like John Walker
in order to physically intimidate liberals, by making them realize
that THEY can be killed too,"
How true this is. Up high upon their ivory towers, liberals have
indeed lost touch with reality. It would seem that they cannot see
this knife being wielded by the murderous villains in countries all
around the globe. They have become ungrateful for the things that the
greatest nation on earth has given them, and their similarities to the
heathens that the LORD spoke of in Sodom and Gomorrah, is becoming
shockingly more similar by the minute. Of course, I'm certainly not
proposing that we indiscriminately rain fire and brimstone upon them,
but certainly we can give them a nudge, push or blatant smack up side
the head, to wake them up.
Perhaps this all seems ambiguous at this point, I apologize for that,
but it is necessary to spell out a problem unemotionally, so that we
can create proposals based in pure logic.
Upon investigation, I realized how we barely dodged a bigger bullet on
9-11. It is true that the majority of the liberals of this country
were temporarily whipped into the mentality of a sane individual and
yes, they stayed out of our way long enough so that we could
accomplish our most pressing concern. However, there was a minority of
dissenters who did not feel that the death of some three thousand
people was worth letting go of their perverted ideology.
Where do these people hide, you ask? Behind closed doors? In damp,
dim-lit basements? No, my friends, the fact of the matter is that
these enemies of the people did not even hide at all. They live on
college campuses and many of them even stood on street corners and
pedestrian malls holding up signs that boasted their dementia.
Although it is widely known that the campuses of U.S. universities
have long been the breeding grounds of anti-Americanism, communism,
homosexuality, illicit drug activity and other acts of fornication
that I cannot even describe. This time, however, they have simply gone
too far. These pro-anarchy pacifists have declared war upon American
morality, and I think it's time we finally fought back.
That is why I propose abolishing the status quo of ALL U.S.
universities, public and private (with perhaps the exception of Bob
Jones University). All upper-level administrators should be fired as
well as all the beatnik socialists that they call "professors". In its
place, I propose, the military take over all responsibilities that we,
so fooli
creationists don't share your "without any outside force" premise
Don't get me wrong. I've actually been a creationist for years. For me, anyhow, it explains what I need explained. It does not, however, provide a full explanation. Neither does evolution. Both theories have their ups and downs. I'm willing to recognise both, and I choose to believe creationism, until proven wrong. I was merely pointing out that I could be proven wrong if multi-celled life was found on other planets, and could be attributed to evolution due to its simplicity or visible stages of advancement.
In order to be immortal you must be organize
The bible doesn't exactly mention anything about the americas, the bison there, or the mississippi river
No, the Bible doesn't mention these things. The book of mormon, however, does. Do we then assume (by your logic) that the mormons are correct?
It just strikes me that there is no proof of life outside of our planet, while there is obviously life in the Americas. In fact, the Bible does refer to a time when pangea (as we have come to call it) separated. This would most definitely be proof of the Americas. ('and unto Eber were born two sons: the name of one was Peleg; for in his days the earth divided; and his brother's name was Joktan.' - Genesis 10:25)
In order to be immortal you must be organize
Wass all this hogwash 'bout InSync and Russians and Mars waterbeds?? Soil in my pockets?
You trying to con me mista. Yes sir.
You liable to steal the heat of a hot plate... the grease off a biscuit.
Mama didn't raise no fool!
I apologise for my indignant response, however I still disagree with your point. Personally I am also a Canadian, but I know that the dispute over evolution vs. creation still rages on all through the so-called Christian world. Australia happens to be the location of the highest number of creationists per capita, as well as the home of Answers In Genesis, however. This would indicate to me, anyhow, that it is still a hot topic there. It simply doesn't make sense to assume that because the debate is public in the US that's the only place that it exists.
In order to be immortal you must be organize
Your comment was read and understood, but unfortunately I feel you may have been blinded to truth by ignorance, I pitty you.
,1910's, 1940's,50's,60's,and 70's for the rights you so easily cast aside. Your statements betray their great cause! FREEDOM
The quest for knowledge about outer space is one of the greatest goals we have as humans, it can and God willing, will unite and enoble us as a people.
Many brave Americans died fighting in the 1770's, 1860's
The very ideas that you expressed, were used as propaganda by Hitler during the 1920's in Pre-Nazi Germany. The first casualties of the second world war were the German intelligencia, and truth.
If the American Constitution means anything it is freedom of thought, with real social democracy for and by a free diverse people.
Without strong defence of these fundimental values advancement in the sciences, art, religion, literature and all that is noble is not possible.
These are two old comments that I made about the inportance of Mars exploration.
please read;
'why even bother?' ( a post ) from an article about the Chinese moon shot.
"mining materials from the moon is going to be more expensive than raiding Western Russia and mining in Siberia then shipping it back to China.
It's expensive to live there, to ship people there, and to experiment there (what to experiment on I will never know).
I can't see a financial justification to use it as a start point for Mars missions when there is nothing of use on Mars (even if there is water and "life").
Let's have our people suffer and wither away in the wastelands of undeveloped China and
build a moon base!"
My response to the post
Give me an economic justification for war, and then I might go along with your statement. The first casualties of war are usually not modern American economic theorists, though this might be a good thing.
Bullshit to your economics. Give us an economic explanation of the pyramids all around the world or European middle age cathedrals.
There is every economic justification for non-productive space exploration, it would employ millions and do no harm. Can we really justify our so-called western lifestyle? (I gag when I use the canned, mindless advertising word lifestyle)
The biggest burden on our technical, social, scientific and economic advancement in the West is our obsession and reliance on the personal automobile. It is outdated and needs replacement. It was important but like the horse it fouls our streets and costs us far too much in resources.
The Chinese have been spared the automobile obsession by economic necessity. As they open their society and discover their true value as a people, they will over take the West in all fields of scientific, technical and human social endeavour within the next decade.
As the first people to use fireworks in a non-destructive way, maybe that is what they have in mind. When you set off a nuclear explosion 40 or 50 thousand miles out in space all you get is one hell of a big flash. It is the use of nuclear technology within our atmosphere that is the real cause for concern.
And
The Reason for Going to Mars
There was flowing water on Mars. Was there once an atmosphere similar to Earth? These questions beg definitive answers. The existence of some form of clustering goo with DNA would be the greatest scientific discovery of all time.
If some form of life were found on Mars then the genetic study of that life would be crucial to our understanding of life, at least within our Solar System. There is the real possibility that life on Earth is genetically linked to something greater than Terra genesis.
Much of our common legends state exactly this possibility (Greek legends of Gods, Assyrian legends). These legends are so powerful that they became religions.
In short discovering that life originated off world would be the great
OH THE SHAME I fell off the wagon and use sigs again!
Ho hum. A Congressman is dead. Doubtless some other bloodsucking charismatic sociopath has already replaced the parasite.
Let me know when something wipes a significant fraction of them out, and then we'll have something to celebrate.
...primarily because I dont use Windows. I'm a gloater by nature.
That was classic intercourse!
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How ya like dat?
Strom Thurmond, the longest serving Senator in US history died yesterday at the age of 100. He suffered a heart attack whild engaging in butt sex, after learning the Supreme Court had ruled that sodomy is legal. He will be sorely missed.
Atheistic regimes can be quite bloodthirsty - witness the USSR under Communism or Germany under Nazism.
Whoa there. Nazi Germany was by no means atheistic. Though Hitler was a follower of Darwin he also clearly had a belief in god.
"Hence today I believe that I am acting in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator: by defending myself against the Jew, I am fighting for the work of the Lord."
Mein Kampf, trans. Ralph Mannheimo
Whether he was a Christian or not may be up for debate (maybe this is well established, some googling indicated to me that there was some confusion, but perhaps there is authoratative evidence). I personally feel he was a Christian or at least purported to be one.
Whatever the details it is certainly not accurate to say that Nazism was atheistic.
> Nazi Germany was by no means atheistic.
You're absolutely right, my mistake. Nazism is a variety of jumbled occultisms, and certainly not Christian by any stretch of the imagination, but it was not atheistic. Thanks for prompting some research.
> I personally feel he was a Christian
> or at least purported to be one
To the contrary:
"Christianity is an invention of sick brains," Adolf Hitler, 13 December 1941.
The Army reading list
To the contrary:
"Christianity is an invention of sick brains," Adolf Hitler, 13 December 1941.
Well then. That pretty much settles that one. Now, I thank you for the correction.
Are the mods not seriously familiar with this guy?
A notable quote:
"He is not only a great man, but he has done great things in his life," said Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah.
But none of the Senate accolades mentioned how Thurmond had once championed racial segregation, how until the rise of George Wallace in Alabama, the South Carolinian had defended the right of states to discriminate against its citizens and denied the right of the federal government to do anything about it.
NAACP Chairman Julian Bond said the public praise for Thurmond is "a sad indication of . . . how willing we Americans are to push yesterday further and further away" without an accounting. "I say good riddance to a relic of our shameful past who has long overstayed his welcome."
Dang kids. I remember reading about him in grade school, fer crying out loud. I thought he was sick back then, even.
SB
It's old. The more humans I meet, the more I like my cats. At least they are honest.
Hitler had extensive connections with the Catholic Church, which played both sides of the fence. They sheltered just enough Jews in the Vatican in case Hitler lost, and had a legate assigned to Hitler who later became Pope in case Hitler won. But notice they never spoke out against the Holocaust even though they knew it was happening at the time. Unfortunately the same is true of many back then as well.
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