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Strange Globs Could Signal Water On Mars
Joshua.Niland writes "Strange globs seen on the landing strut of the Phoenix Mars lander could be the first proof that modern Mars hosts liquid water. Images from the robotic craft show what appear to be liquid droplets growing, merging, and dripping on the lander's leg over the course of a Martian month. Just when is NASA going to fix that leaking roof on the backlot?"
Assuming of course that those globs are water and not Martian spit or something else.
Maybe a Martian dog walked by, took a whiff of the lander, and promptly took a piss on it?
Now that would be a headline for the press, "Traces of dogs found on Mars."
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We sent a robot to look for water on Mars. It lands in an icy puddle, and gets covered in mud and tiny droplets (that behave just like water). But we can't tell if it's water or not. Your tax dollars at work!
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
You both.
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Well then, we just need to increase the gravitational constant of the universe as well.
please go back to watching american idol now, grown ups will keep doing the science. *pats on head*
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It proves that a Martian dog found a leg to pee on.
Excuse me, but please get off my Pennisetum Clandestinum, eh!
Because of discoveries on Mars a few years ago, I registered the domain name martiansprings.com.
I get these late night brilliant ideas that go nowhere. I was picturing bottled water sold as a souvenir gimmick in science museum gift shops.
Some say I'm bipolar.
This space available.
Actually the final year of my space science degree almost entirely revolved around martian geology and impact cratering (you wanna know how many craters per square km there are in amazonis planitia? or the southern highlands? TS, go count em yourself...)
So anyway, bite me.
Some say I'm bipolar...
...and that there's a portrait of your left foot in the Louvre basement.
The only thing we know is: you're called The Stig.
You registered the wrong domain. You should have registered martianhomeopathy.com. I just checked and it is still available, as well as the .net, .org, and .mobi variants. You see, shipping millions of gallons of water down from Mars would be prohibitively expensive. On the other hand, if you market it as 'Homeopathy', you can actually advertise that you have diluted billions of gallons of earth water with just one itty bitty tiny drop of actual Martian water. This will be seen by many of the homeopathy crowd as giving it more powerful juju than if you had shipped 100% pure Martian water.
While I'm not saying that getting that first drop of Martian water would be cheap or easy, but it certainly would be cheaper and easier than setting up a full scale harvesting and shipping system for pure water.
Would this "dog" be green and have a broom on his head?
There's no such thing as solid water. Once the substance known as "water" forms a solid, it's referred to as "ice".
Yes. Some people will starve. Some people will be unemployed.
It would be nice to minimize this, but what is the proper way to do so?
Feed the unemployed to the starving?
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