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NASA Announces Water Found On Mars
s.bots writes "Straight from the horse's mouth, NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has identified water in a soil sample. Hopefully this exciting news will boost interest in the space program and further exploration of the Martian surface." Clearly, this has long been suspected, but now Martian water's been (in the words of William Boynton, lead scientist for the Thermal and Evolved-Gas Analyzer) "touched and tasted."
Meh. Call me if they find crude oil on Mars.
NASA found water on Mars over three years ago.
Well we know one place where the Housing bubble hasn't collapsed. The Deed I bought on MartianRealestate.com will finally go up in value. I purchased 3000 acres on the Martian polar regions. Now where to build my lake house...
I've given up on Slashdot's comment scores.
our aquatic martian overlords.
-AC
...now we find a way to launch approximately 40bn gallons of fine single-malt whisky to Mars.
Oh, okay, - it really means that now we don't have to drag as much stuff with us when we finally do get sufficient testicular fortitude to get people out to Mars for exploration, perhaps settlement, etc etc.
Now to answer your question specifically? We need to know how much H2O are we talking here, and in what concentrations and distributions.
Quo usque tandem abutere, Nimbus, patientia nostra?
Now what?
Now we move to mars. Naturally, we won't actually use or drink the readily available Martian water, but buy bottled water from earth instead.
GAAH! MY PRINTER IS ON FIRE!!! PUT IT OUT! PUT IT OUT!
Dejah Thoris and a hot tub, what else?
Projected quantities, availability and ease of procurement of said water, but first need need other resources necessary for sustained life there. Perhaps afterwards can discuss algae and people with a greenhouse. Lots to do, rest assured though somewhere along the line there will be a push for terraforming, if we don't destroy ourselves first.
It is the stupid democrats that don't want to upset the Martians: where ever they are now. They are afraid that the Martians will be unhappy if we take their land.
The Martians have not used their land in years: A lot of years.
I am tired of the democrats doing their stupid appeasement. 10 years-ago it was Saddam Hussein, next it was North Korea, Iran, and now it is the Martians!
The universe is a harsh thing to live in. If they are not willing to fight for their land then it should be taking from them.
(funny)
from the so-val-kilmer-can-breathe-easy dept.
Val Kilmer? Don't you mean Dan Quayle?
"Mars is essentially in the same orbit ... Mars is somewhat the same distance from the Sun, which is very important. We have seen pictures where there are canals, we believe, and water. If there is water, that means there is oxygen. If oxygen, that means we can breathe."
-- Vice President Dan Quayle, 1989-08-11 (reported in Esquire, 1992-08)
Oh, say does that Star-Spangled Banner entwine / The myrtle of Venus with Bacchus's vine?
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FWIW, I think if Joe Public has used composite forceps in the delivery room, we have larger problems than NASA funding. For one, we need to fix the healthcare system so that when my wife delivers her next child, it's an obstetrician, not Joe Public, prying the little rugrat out of her dilated vagoogoo.
(My apologies to my as-yet-unconceived (I hope) second child).
"Trolls they were, but filled with the evil will of their master: a fell race..." -- J.R.R. Tolkien on Olog-hai
...now we find a way to launch approximately 40bn gallons of fine single-malt whisky to Mars.
no no, we just need to send barley, oak casks and some funny shaped copper tubes.
If your willing to wait a bit longer, we only need to send barley and acorns, I'm sure there must be some copper on Mars.
What if Tetris was invented by Nazis?
Are you kidding? That's sprinting for most slashdotters.
If brevity is the soul of wit, then how does one explain Twitter?
Could we send a Rove?
The Kruger Dunning explains most post on
We can't send them all of our tubes, I'm still in the middle of a download!
"Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right" - Salvor Hardin
Many, so very many.
A bottling plant on Mars would make crazy money. "Don't drink earth water, drink E.T water!" (even more if they pluralize that and convince people alien urine will give them super health).
And then the Mars company will give everyone hell for calling it Mars Water.
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It'll be Evian or Volvic who leverage the new market! Probably Volvic, if Olympus Mons yields a source :-)
prying the little rugrat out of her dilated vagoogoo.
(My apologies to my as-yet-unconceived (I hope) second child).
As long as you are calling it a 'vagoogoo' you are to young to have a first child, never mind a second.
When information is power, privacy is freedom.
Now we move to mars. Naturally, we won't actually use or drink the readily available Martian water, but buy bottled water from earth instead.
You've got it backwards. We bring the Mars water back here and sell it to gullible yuppies for 6 million dollars a bottle. Just tell them it's free of all of those earthly contaminants that cause cancer and wrinkles.
Awesome! Let's come up with a brand name. How about 'naive' backwards?
Tsunami -- You can't bring a good wave down!
Just to be a pendant, I'm Australian and can speak english properly, I was attempting to show an Arnie accent witch doesn't place the "r" in arse as rightfully placed there in any version of the Queens English.
Calling someone a "hater" only means you can not rationally rebut their argument.