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Mars Had Surface Water for Eons

Posted by michael on from the splish-splash-i-was-taking-a-bath dept.

LukePieStalker writes "Far from being a one-time event, it now appears that surface water flowed on Mars for eons. Nasa has announced that, after descending down further into the Endurance crater, the Opportunity rover has found a 'razorback'. It is believed that this was formed by 'fracture fill' from the minerals in percolating water. Since this feature extends through several geologic layers, it argues for a long period of wetness near the surface. This would seem to substantially increase the chance that life once existed on the red planet."

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  1. LAZER by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Or the fishers that look like river flows could have been <dr evil> "M.A.G.M.A." from a giant freaking "L.A.S.E.R" </dr evil>.

  2. hmm by hoborocks · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    is slashdot getting slashdotted? it's hard to get here sometimes....

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  3. Re:Water common? by ksilebo · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I for one welcome our inerplanetary overlords.

    (Just to get it out of the way...)

    In Soviet Russia, the water flows you!

    Or something...

  4. Moderators, don't be asinine. by pclminion · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Yes, it's offtopic. But I'm sure there are at least 300,000 of us who want to know what the fuck is going on.

    Where do you SUGGEST we ask?

    I reiterate the parent's question: What the FUCK is going on with Slashdot?

    1. Re:Moderators, don't be asinine. by pclminion · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      I'm not asking them to answer, I'm asking them to let the question remain visible at least for a few minutes so that somebody who does know might see it and tell us. It's not that complicated.

    2. Re:Moderators, don't be asinine. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      I think that Slash dot having problems is more then worthly of a Slash dot story....

  5. I'd rather trust tinfoil hat guys than christians by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    "What you have to understand, is your father was your model for God. If you're male and you're Christian and living in America, your father is your model for God. And if you never know your father, if your father bails out and dies or is never at home, what do you believe about God?

    What you end up doing is you spend your life searching for your father and God."

    "What you have to consider is the possibility that God doesn't like you. Could be, God hates us. This is not the worst thing that could happen."

    How Tyler saw it was that getting God's attention for being bad was better than getting no attention at all. Maybe because God's hate is better than His indifference.

    If you could be either God's worst enemy or nothing, which would you choose?

    We are God's middle children, according to Tyler Durden, with no special place in history and no special attention.

    Unless we get God's attention, we have no hope of damnation or redemption.

    Which is worse, hell or nothing?

    Only if we're caught and punished can we be saved.

  6. Re:I wonder if the scientist who first noticed thi by dr+fish+spit · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Maybe you didn't notice my post referred to an article on The Onion. Are you saying that the writers of The Onion's articles have small vocabularies?

  7. Subscribers, vote with your wallet by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Is that really so?

    I don't think so. If they were running Slashdot as a hobby, that excuse could work but now that Slashdot is a business it's just unacceptable.

    Subscribers, just complain to the parent company and ask them for an explanation for the lack of service - the service that you paid for.

  8. Re:How long is an eon? by ZioCantante · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Howard Phillips Lovecraft
    Look the back cover of your Iron Maiden - Live After Death CD, and read the tombstone !

    Bruce is the best!

  9. Re:I wonder if the scientist who first noticed thi by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    So what you're saying is, "I don't find The Onion to be funny, and therefore anyone who does is less intelligent than I am."

  10. Re:Fantastic! by slungsolow · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I don't think people would be as excited if they found trojans on uranus.

  11. Re:I wonder if the scientist who first noticed thi by geomon · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I thank you for your apology.

    One piece of friendly advice: You shouldn't let anything on this site bother you that much.

    Of course the humor on Slashdot is sophomoric. It is frequented by people whose average age is bracketed by sophomores (high school to college).

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