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NASA Says Mars Rocks Formed in a Salty Sea
NASA has made another announcement, live on NASA TV, regarding the discoveries of the Spirit and Opportunity rovers. They believe that the rocks examined by Opportunity were actually formed in water; that those rocks were actually sediments laid down in a shallow salty sea. They've already had outside scientists examine their data and those scientists concur with the conclusions. NASA has a story with explanations and some photos.
Well, I suppose that would explain the ruins of a Long John Silver's that Viking 2 found in the 70s.
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...after the discovery of a layer of surfboard wax in the sediments.
WOOOOOOO! PAAAAARTY! Show us your tits! Pass the tequila. Where's Shenor Frog'sh at? Adonde esta el bano? Can I get some more salt for my margarita glass?
You know it's only a matter of time. Really.
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Sure, sure - next they'll try to make us swallow Martian seamen!
"Opportunity Rover on Strike: Demands Pina Coladas, Sunscreen, and 5 days off to enjoy time at beach."
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Im so glad all these scientists have finally be able to validate your claim...you must be very proud.
Suddenly I'm hungery for a nice juicy steak...
Easy... the colonists revolted and the Go'auld decimated the planet.
-What have you contributed lately?
I can't believe they actually discovered they have rovers over there:
"NASA has made another announcement, live on NASA TV, regarding the discoveries of the Spirit and Opportunity rovers. "
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Almost makes you wonder if buying that low UID on eBay was even worth it, huh?
I think you're overlooking the little green men option.
"Would there have been life there?" asked Jayson Blair, new cub reporter for Tool & Die Quarterly.
"Dude!" said Corona, "With wave action like that how could there not be life? Can't you just imagine the green-skinned Mars babes lounging around, sipping Martain pina colodas while rubbing tanning butter all over their Barsooms."
"So you think Mars mught have supported intelligent life?" asked Baba O'Reilly, a distant cousin of Bill O'Reilly working for Akron City College Daily Herald, Mid-Morning Edition.
"Yeah... yeah... those barsooms, man," said Corona. "Huh? What? Oh, well, you wouldn't want them to be too intelligent, you know what I mean, man?"
The press conference was brough to an early end when a catsuited Gloria Allred and Camille Paglia paraglided into the taffy booth and beat Corona into submission.
--- Ban humanity.
I fixed some PHP code last night where I'd used a & instead of a $ to start a variable name, but you don't see me holding a press conference.
You didn't hold a press conference because everyone already knows you suck at coding.
I'd hate to break this to you but...not everyone gets to be an astronaut when they grow up
Isn't all that salt going to be bad on the rovers? I know it was hell on cars in Utah when I lived there.
Read any good sonnets lately?
So, Mars had a Sea and now it's dry and desert-like...
How long until they find worm-sign?
... but I'm not going to tell you anything about it, and the link I provide won't have the text. Nyah nyah!
AHHHHHHH! I'm burning with goodness again!
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Mars was once geologically active -magnetic field protecting from solar radiation - thus, thicker atmosphere, thus, warmer, warm enough for flowing, liquid water, possibly also hot springs or undersea vents.
Soudns very reasonable, except, you're forgetting that Martians moved the bulk of their atmoshpere to Earth which they then terraformed into a habitable planet. Of course this was a long long time ago, and the martian overlords have since progressed on leaving us to wonder why we're here.
Come to think of it this sounds an awful lot like Scientology. Oh god! They're right! On second thought I think I might listen to too much Clutch.
Yes, let us be brave and bold like Europe, and capitulate our way to the Heavens!
I agree with the majority of your point, but when illustrating truth, you'll be more influential by not being a punk.
Of course it's true!
And forget mere bacterial fossils.
Why -- an entire fat lady has been found on Mars.
Hrm, I know you're NAPA (nor am I) but I believe the reason Mars doesn't have an atmosphere isn't the gravity (Mars gravity is pretty close to Earth gravity, something like 0.8g) but rather the lack of a magnetosphere to protect the atmosphere from outside forces (solar flares, etc.) IIRC this is because there is no longer thermal activity in the Martian core, which isn't exactly something we can change in any comprehensible amount of time (say, under a billion years or so.) So it seems the sci-fi geek dreams of terraforming Mars are, much like women, just sci-fi geek dreams.
OT: but I had to share it:
My current titles on my tabs in Mozilla say:
"NASA Finds Critical Ass...."
and
"NASA Says Mars Rocks..."
Kinda funny...
Burma?