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Mounting Evidence for Water on Mars

Kent Simon writes "Space.com has an interesting article discussing new evidence from the mars rovers that shows there may really be Water on Mars."

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  1. Troll? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I only said "Good Morning".

  2. SIXTH POST! by James+A.+H.+Joyce · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    OMFG LOLZ

  3. MS spys on WMA users by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    http://cryptome.org/scappaticci.htm

  4. Re:The spherules by Cyber+Dugie · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    yeah sure... remebering Red Planet... ugh ... anybody step there bofore??? mountain...human...nop... the austronout haven't reach the planet, they lost in venus, the chicks there is better than in eart ;)

  5. Re:It's easy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    That's funny, even if you don't get modded as such.

  6. Re:First Early Morning Post by anish1411 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    It afternoon here in the UK, you insensitive clod!

  7. Re:First Early Morning Post by venomix · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Afternoon? I'm in Sweden and it's early morning (soon 1 PM) here =)

  8. Brushing up my knowledge of human encounters by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I'm allready brushing up my knowledge about human-alien encounters by playing long sessions of Starcraft.

  9. you idiot! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    you totaly bombed that, it should be something like... In Soviet Russia water finds you!

  10. Re:Be careful what you wish for by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Remember when Chekov was scanning Ceti Alpha 5 for life before testing the Genesis device there, and his captain said that even a microbe meant the test would be a no-go?

    Ceti Alpha 5? I thought it was Ceti Alpha 6! Uh-oh...

    That said, you'd have thought Chekhov might have mentioned something to the captain about having been to this system once before, and having marooned a really, really nasty bastard there, and that maybe it would pay to be a bit cautious. Or is that too much to expect of a Starfleet officer?

    Remember what happened to the invading Martians at Grover's Mill NJ: they're highly vulnerable to Terran bacteria.

    And you'd have thought that they'd have learned their lesson after the disastrous invasion they launched in Woking about half a century previously. I mean, at least they'd have brought biohazard suits...

  11. Good thing they didn't land at Syria Planum by Lurker · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    If the rover had landed at Syria Planum, they might have awakened the Shadow vessel buried there.

  12. Re:Wouldn't it be funny... by Zakabog · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I was trying to point out humorously that the church doesn't respond well to advances in science and technology. What's that? The earth isn't the center of the universe? Blasphemy! Evolution? No way is an ape my ancestor! Dinosaurs? Well they existed with humans! The world's only 5,000 years old damn it!

    I don't think I was a troll or flamebait, and I don't have a problem with the church. There's no mention of extra-terrestrial life though anywhere in the bible, I think that finding some would be pretty strong proof against the existence of god (but then again there has been much stuff never mentioned in the bible, or challenged by science that should make people say hey maybe god doesn't exist but then those people mostly ignore it or brush it off.) How would god talk about the creation of the entire universe and leave out "Oh and there's life on other planets, earth isn't the only place in the universe with life." It'd probably be much like discovering the first fossils of dinosaurs, they were never mentioned in the bible and then you get some strange beliefs that dinosaurs and humans existed at the same time (like this)

  13. Re:Title a bit sexual? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Sexual? Sexual like mounting a grandma in a bathtub. You suck at things, guy; because you touch yourself at night, asshat. All your karma are belong to me.

  14. How are they positive there's water? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    NASA found a coke can on mars

  15. Water on Mars by Tenji · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    This is a goodness. You grok?

  16. Re:Wouldn't it be funny... by egomaniac · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The Bible is truth, but not exhaustive truth.

    No, the Bible is not truth, and this is easy enough to prove. For it to be truth, it could not contain a single contradiction or factual innaccuracy.

    Here is a page which lists a number of contradictions in the Bible.

    Note that even one would be enough to prove that the Bible is not completely true and therefore could not be the unadulterated word of God.

    I am aware that Christians have a number of excuses for this (the word of God is perfect, but it was transcribed by imperfect humans, errors were introduced in translation, etc.) but the fact is that this must necessarily cast doubt on the accuracy of the entire work. If you are forced to admit that certain passages of the Bible are inaccurate, how can you know for certain that all of the other passages are accurate?

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    ZFS: because love is never having to say fsck
  17. Music by rabel · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Is it just me or is anyone else getting tired of hearing what music each rover "wakes-up" to as reported on by nasa each day on the NASA Rover Status Page?

    It was cute the first few times, but now it's just getting insipid as these engineers try desperately to link the day's work with the title of some song.

    Ok guys, we all know you have gigs of MP3s and you're all really cool. Now, why not just start every rover morning with Also Sprach Zarathustra?

  18. Re:Wouldn't it be funny... by genner · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    In the interest of time and space I'm going to ignore most of your troll and only address one of the issues you bring up, namely that the existance of extra terestrial life would immediately crush christianity. Ok first off , just becuase the Bible doesn't say something doesn't mean christians immediately say it doesn't exist. The Bible doesn't mention E.T.'s in one way or another therefore there is a possiblity they do exist. The great christain author C.S. Lewis dealy with the subject in great detail in his letters as well as the Sci-Fi series "Out of the Silent Planet". The gist of it was that God is a constant across the universe. Aliens may have a diffrent name and series of events that alowed them to realize his existance, i.e. their own bibilical history and consiquently thier own Bible. Of course this is all hypothetical... but i show's that Christianity could survive a alien discovery. All this being said, which religeous organizations are claiming with absolute certainity, that there is no alien life? My church never made this statment. I don't see how any Christian church can say it, and if it's not mentioned in the Bible in anyway it's not the churchs jub to say it.