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Martian Sea Discovered
mpesce writes "New Scientist is reporting that a large sea of frozen ice (between 800 and 900 km in size and 45 m deep) has been discovered by the ESA's Mars Express Probe. Here's the kicker: the sea of block ice is only five degrees away from the Martian equator. New Scientist also links to a PDF of a paper to be presented next month about the finding." Update: 02/21 15:30 GMT by T : Note: that's 45 meters deep, not 45 kilometers deep.
Imagine living on a planet where you get tax breaks for driving big inefficient vehicles that produce greenhouse gases. It's Bushs' dream. Burning fossil fuels would be a requirement to keep the planet from freezing again. Oh wait - there are no fossil fuels on mars. $h|t.
Shut up, eurotrash - everyone knows that meters are the same as your stupid 'kilo'meters and 'centi'meters, which are all roughly equal to a mile. I mean, seriously, who cares about some outdated inaccurate measurement system involving powers of ten? Give me my firkins, leagues, fathoms, pinches, pecks and hogsheads any day! Nice and simple!
Far more interestingly, this means that the sea has a volume of at least 3.67773589 × 10^15 pecks!
Maybe I'm retarded, but unlike your President I'm not actually proud of that fact Plus I don't actually run the country. So what the fuck does that make you, asshole? Just another bootspittle blind monkeyfuck follower, doesn't it.
Now go back home and masturbate to pictures of Sean Hannity, ok?
I don't give a shit about all states equally. I care about the Commonwealth of Virginia. I, and my father's father's before me have been here sine Cromwell kicked us out of Co Cork in 1640. it is my home. I have little in common with people in California. I don't want them to decide my life in any way. The common interest is all the federal government is for. The President shouldn't even have an agenda. He shouldn't be a "leader." He should stay within the constitution. That said, I think we have not had a good one since Andrew Jackson ruined the whole concept of the Presidency based on my criteria (the Constitution and the writings of the founding fathers). I do have a soft spot for Reagan, but only 'cause he killed the Soviet Union. This is not a unitary country and it never should be. Hell, i'd probably be happier if each State were a country. It'd be like Europe then.
If it really was Bush he would have said "4,000 years ago", not 3.5 billion years ago. We all know that Christians don't believe all that science mumbo jumbo.
Time makes more converts than reason