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Probable Water Ice Sighted On Mars
CraftyJack writes "Bright white chunks in the trenches dug by the Phoenix Lander have disappeared, leading Peter Smith & co. to believe that the chunks were ice that has since sublimated."
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Is there oil?
The white things were Martian beach loungers. And as they were there first, I strongly suspect they were German-speaking Martians.
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Excellent. Some coke and rum and we've got ourselves a party!
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This was proven SO long ago.
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Indeed, we've known this for several presidential administrations:
If there is water, that means there is oxygen.
If oxygen, that means we can breathe.
Recursive: Adj. See Recursive.
Yeah, but how do you shake an entire planet?
Nerd rage is the funniest rage.
Prof: Good news everyone!
Bender: Uh oh. I don't like the sound of that.
Prof: Today you'll be making a delivery to the planet Mars!
Bender: Bo-ring. Let's go get drunk!
Since CO2 sublimates, and water does not. (It shouldn't even melt at these temperatures,) I assume that they mean CO2.
I agree though; this robot isn't as good as a human, but the folks at NASA are pretty bright. It's speculation now but after a few more tests they'll have the data they need for a solid conclusion. It's still very early in the lander's mission on Mars. We need to have a little patience.
REALLY big subwoofer.
After all this time and effort, we finally found water on Mars, and we let it get away!
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I bet you could write about three thick books on that theme. You could pit a bunch of conservative geology types against power mad engineers with a small group of middle ground heroes in the middle
But what would you call it. Something Mars. I know Red Mars, then the next book gets a slightly different name.
The only problem is that the third book would probably run out of ideas about 10% of the way through.
Maybe its not such a good idea to after all...
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You see, you had a splendid joke there, and then you went and spoiled it.
Any truly civilized individual knows that a Martini is made with gin, not vodka.
Sheesh, when will these damn colonials ever learn ?
Are you refering to the Philip J. Fry from universe A or universe 1?
There is a system for subverting the system and you should use that system!
Sure, Martinis may be made with gin, but martiantinis are made with vodka. Duh.
WWJD.... for a Klondike bar?
like Jynnan Tonnyx?
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Awesome, what flavor?
I think the most important thing, and it is something that everyone keeps missing, is that NASA has found a way to turn even rocket scientists into ditch diggers!
Imagine a bright young engineer studying hard on saturday nights, while all his friends are getting drunk and laid, and thinking how he'll have a successful career with NASA. And when thinking about his lucky friends he says to himself "the world needs ditchdiggers too."
And some day he gets into NASA, and his boss's first words are:
"Johnson, this ain't rocket science, Phoenix has landed and I need you do dig me a ditch..."
If you don't know what AltaVista is (was), get off my lawn.
That would turn the whole planet into a Disaster Area!
Not a sentence!
You use vodka out of respect for the fallen Russian probes. When the Dutch lose more probes on Mars to the Russians, we can start switching to gin.
This time they really really really really really really found water. Just like the last time they really really really found water. But that one time they found water they really didn't. But this time they really almost definitely did.
Democratyatize is a perfectly cromulent word.
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When did we vote? Was I asleep?
Fnord.
Large groups of Martians are now protesting at the landing site.
Holding placards saying "Go home - Keep Mars for the Martians" - "You messed up Earth, Leave Mars Alone" - "There's no Oil Here - Go Home"
It appears we may not be welcome after all.
http://davesboat.blogspot.com/
Astronauts will be able to make Long Island Ice Tea on Mars without having to ship expensive ice all the way from earth!
When the roads get iced up round my way, they come out and chuck a load of reddish coloured sand on it and it melts, so how can all that ice exist under all that reddish coloured sand on Mars? They really didn't think this through.
That actually may not be a bad idea. Can anyone tell me whether a load of catalyst and a reactor would weigh less than a load of hydrogen?
If video games influenced behavior the Pac Man generation would be eating pills and running away from their problems.
where you see a problem i see opportunity
send 10 fat guys to mars in a small capsule loaded with beans, rice, corn dogs, garlic knots, etc
when the capsule reaches mars, BOOM, a little percussion decompression, and voila: instant martian atmosphere
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
Blue sky on Mars.
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Jeez, it seems like you can't go 5 miles anymore without a Rita's.
There is absolutely no need to prove that the Earth is the center of the universe, orbited by the other celestial bodies.
Just pull up a Ptolemaic diagram (google is your friend), look at the center (i.e. within the orbits of the planets), and what do you see?
A circle which is, in fact, the Earth.
And what does the fact that the Sun and all other celestial bodies have concentric orbits around the Earth prove?
Bingo. Geocentrism.
http://www.marshydro.com/ :-)
O'WONDERWe're working on it.
Both are listed in the dictionary.
We'd better throw out those phase change diagrams in the schools' books and remove the triple point of water, someone on /. has confirmed ...
IT'S ALL A LIE! Water can't sublimate.
Of course, since the triple point of water is 6.1 millibars @ 0.0098 C, and the average atmospheric pressure of Mars is 6 millibars, it can't possibly ever have favorable conditions for the sublimation of ... err ... uh, I mean, ummm ... ... ....
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All your vapor belong to US!
Martianmallow?
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