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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.
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.