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Brine on Mars?
Bagels writes "A new article on MSNBC (coming originally from Space.com) reports that the both Rovers may have struck water in the form of brine. The Opportunity rover found hints of salty water in the trench that it dug, and scientists note that the Spirit rover is currently digging a trench of its own to investigate the soil that clings to its treads, suggesting the possibility of moisture. The brine would only be small amounts of water mixed with salt, which can exist in liquid form at very low temperatures. More images are available over at NASA's rover site." Reader
frovingslosh would like to add: "I'm just hoping that when you get around to posting one of the many stories that the rover has found mud on Mars that you might include a link to the slashdot article where I predicted this but got moderated as 'funny'." Done!
Scientists now believe that advanced colonies of Sea Monkeys once inhabited Mars.
"...all the labours of the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noonday brightness..." yada yada
...there's shrimp!
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Natural progression of this would tell me that there must be some tuna up there too.
- Jonathan :)
No tuna is safe.
I believe this is obvious proof that Mars used to have oceans. Yes, oceans. And because they had oceans, they had life. And because they had life, they had Elephants. Only they weren't called Elephants. They were called Marlaphants.
Yeah, Marlaphants.
Anyone taking bets?
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Hey George, Mars called, and they're running out of shrimp!
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And so begins the great Martian Salt Trade.
Coming soon - Bonanza 2012, starring the head of Lorne Greene: Mars - the new frontier, thousands of fortune seekers stake their claim on the red planet, hoping to make their fortune panning for frankfurters.
Now there will be salt mines for the riff-raff when I take over Mars.
--- Ban humanity.
Maybe it's leftover salt from Martian civilizations de-icing their driveways...
Happiness is like peeing yourself. Everybody can see it but only you can feel its warmth.
Rover is picking up hints of Martian Cities made entirely of Gold off in the distance. Spanish mercenaries, get ready!
My guess, one of these days one of the Mars rovers will stumble on upon Bikini Bottom, and be treated to the whimsical antics of SpongeBob, Patrick, Plankton, and Squidward. Come on, there's no space helmet wearing sassy squirrels like Sandy on earth. If there were, would I be sitting here typing?
So what you are predicting is Martian rats with salty urine. :-)
--- Ban humanity.
This would be much much more exciting if they found spice.
:)
Other rover was actually taken by a sand worm.
In other news, new rovers will roll without rhythm.
I hope they rust-proofed the Rovers.
When they came for the communists, I said "He's next door. Take him away. Goddam commies."
So the Rovers are not in Morocco/Sahara after all...
If you dig a trench in the sand and find salty water, you should start running because the tide is gonna come in any minute!
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Stop the importation of Martian Dihydrogen Monoxide now! It's threatening the Earth's Dihydrogen Monoxide industry!
You mean there might actually be water on Mars, meaning that there's oxygen, that we could extract and breathe?
If only someone had mentioned this possibility before.
Brine? Brine means pickles? Pickles means Mars was (or still is) inhabited by a highly evolved race of cucumbers? Earthlings eat huge quantities of pickles on burgers? Meaning McDonald's could be considered a weapon of mass destruction? So now Mars will declare war, great, this is just what the economy needs...
Yes, I believe Europe does offer a wide selection of women from which to choose.
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So now we know where all those pickled odities you find in redneck bars come from. I knew those things floating in brine must have come from another planet.
"Who are in control, they are not in control of anything - they don't even control themselves!" - Glen Beck
The cost of Bush's Mars mission just went up 200%... to pay for a space hardened desalinization plant.
Hasn't anyone else noticed this?
The mars face has returned!
Dan East
Better known as 318230.
Maybe... just maybe, Mars was similar to Earth some-umpteen-billion years ago. And Earth will be like Mars in some-umpteen-billion years.
I'm willing to take an entreprenurial risk and say we're overlooking the real moneymaker here... and that's Venus... once Earth moves out of this cushy orbit, Venus is going to move in. A couple billions years after that... Hot Venutian Chicks on my beaches.
awwwYEAH.
Are you crazy? The Martians may consider it a pre-emptive strike and come fuck us the hell up.
Wishing I was a millionaire since 1969.
You stick a couple of 100 million dollars worth of water detecting apparatus aboard a rover, and how do you eventually find the wet stuff? Right, it sticks to the tires...
Doh!
Everyone always warns you to always refuse the underbody-coating option, I'm sure NASA was trying to keep costs down when they went to the rover lot. Maybe those salesman really are correct after all...
----- And all that the Lorax left here in this mess was a small pile of rocks, with one word...UNLESS.
signs of life on Mars, and since it's likely that (being scientists) some of them are Monty Python fans, I humbly submit that the project should be called...
"The Life of Brine".
I want to drag this out as long as possible. Bring me my protractor.
Administrator O'Neill: Are ya ready engineers?
Engineers: Aye Aye, Administrator!
AON: I can't hear you!
ENG: AYE AYE, ADMINISTRATOR!
AON: Ohhhh.... who's driving around on a planet briney?
ENG: Spirit Squarepants!
AON: Along with his good friend Opportunity!
ENG: Spirit Squarepants!
AON: He's grinding at rocks with his robotic arm...
ENG: Spirit Squarepants!
AON: Hoping his file system does him no harm!
ENG: Spirit Squarepants!
All Together: SPIRIT SQUAREPANTS, SPIRIT SQUAREPANTS, SPIRIT SQUAREPANTS
AON: Spirit.... Squarepants!
That means that NASA can start putting cool mudflaps on future rovers. You know, those flaps with the naked ladies on 'em? R-r-r-r-r baby!
In Bushworld, they struggle to keep church and state separate in Iraq as they increasingly merge the two in America.
And this related species of Marlaphant. Clearly this species could not survive on Earth!
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We saw (or rather not) what happened when the lander crashed on Mars. Seriously, what did they expect ;)
There can't possibly be any life on mars.
The club scene is a barren landscape, and the whole place is just one big red light district.
What happens if the rover DOES find water? Would it sink or would it float? Logic dictates that if it floats, it is therfore a witch and must be burned.
I'd rather be a conservative nutjob than a liberal with no nuts and no job.
I want whoever had hidden my shiny roundmarbles on Mars to come and tell me the truth.
I lost these things since the first grade, sniff, how am I supposed to get them back from there?
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They BOTH found it? Maybe the rovers are just leaking some of their antifreeze?
Drat! I thought I was radiating a type 4 fermionic mental confusion field.
;-)
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You must be wearing your tin-foil hat
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It seems pretty clear to me we need to send some monkeys up there. Then we wait about 1 million years for them to evolve into an intelligent species so we can send astronauts to visit and do yet another painful "Planet of the Apes" movies.