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."

Comments

Re:It's not "real"

[nawcom]

You remind me of the creationists who demand evidence they can feel in the palms of their hands because microscopic evidence under a microscope is never enough. I can see someone traveling to mars, getting some water for "you" to taste, and you not accepting the truth because it tastes different then the water that's been softened with sodium that you've grown up to know and love. I assume you are a member of the flat earth society too, no?

Re:Significance

[nawcom]

I firmly believe that extraterrestrial life does not exist

I don't care if you believe that the tooth fairy lives in everyone's rectum. The remaining skeptics will take evidence as evidence (in this case, that the water on mars we saw from space is in fact real water), for belief only requires the delusional confidence of one's self.

Optimism is something completely different however. I can say I'm a skeptic who is optimistic about extraterrestrial life, yet accepts the fact that there is evidence lacking.

Re:Hurray!

[NotmyNick]

You = dumb. Testicular fortitude is one of the least important problems in getting to Mars. Something like keeping people alive in space for years rather than months is the REAL issue.

You=teh FAIL. You have no balls, you mince about on what-ifs and never, ever have a hope of accomplishing anything.