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Plan To Bomb Mars For Signs of Climate Change
Oliver Harris writes "Scientists are planning on launching huge copper slugs at Mars in the hope that they will reveal signs of climate change. Problem: What happens when the Martians launch their own copper slugs back?" From the article: "'It's neat because it's a brute force way to gain access to the subsurface of Mars,' says David Spencer, a team member at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, US. 'The impactor will be very simple and we'll get our first look at material from that depth.' Christensen says that will provide a crucial test for models of Mars's past climate."
But Usama bin-Laden may be hiding up them , along with the Iraqi Weapons of Mass destruction.
So obviously they need to bomb it
The only things certain in war are Propaganda and Death. You can never be sure which is which though
We would end up hitting both of the little robot rovers we sent up there, ending any future hopes of getting more data from them...
Leave it to NASA to come up with this "great idea"...
What a bunch of Rocket Scientists...
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