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New Images Reveal Pure Water Ice On Mars
Matt_dk writes "Images of recent impact craters taken by the HiRISE Camera on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter have revealed sub-surface water ice halfway between the north pole and the equator on Mars. While the Phoenix lander imaged subsurface ice where the top layer of soil had been disturbed at the landing site near the north pole, these new images — taken in quick succession, detecting how the ice sublimated away — are the first to show evidence of water ice at much lower latitudes. Surprisingly, the white ice may be made from 99 percent pure water."
They're finding a lot of water in space recently.
They just need to find the ethanol now.
For fuel of course! - *looks side to side*
It's NOT me! It's the meds! I'm on 1000mg of Fukitol.
...but does it have electrolytes?
(alternatively: "Does it blend?")
That works. Fusion power is only 30 years away, after all, and I'm sure meaningful Mars missions will have to wait longer than that.
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What's the last 1%? Something really nasty, I bet.
Ian Ameline
Ok - all we need now is to send the Guvernator up there to whip up some dissent among the subsurface mutant population, and we should have a breathable 14.7 PSI atmosphere in no time!!!
Space: where moist stuff is.
Gee, thanks for connecting the dots for us.
You inspired the following daydream:
1. Small crowd around a water cooler talking energetically
2. Later... Man sitting alone in a chair at home
3. Man sitting alone in a chair at home
4. Man sitting alone in a chair at home
5. Man sitting alone in a chair at home
6. Man exclaims, "HA HA! I get it!"
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Get your ass to an NEO! (just doesn't have the same right to it)
Just refer to the NEO in question as "The One", and I'm sure you'll be able get some people excited about it.
We must find The One!
The enemies of Democracy are
Get your ass to Mars, ... Get your ass to Mars, ... Get your ass to Mars, ...
Well, okay, but he will need more than just frozen water, he eats a lot of oats. Also hates it when people tell him to do things three times.
Get your ass to Mars, ... Get your ass to Mars, ... Get your ass to Mars, ...
I see we're thinking on the same track. There's water on the Moon, water on Mars... Where next? A bidet (Water in Uranus).
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HAL: Affirmative, Dave. I read you.
Dave: Play the disk, HAL.
HAL: I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that.
Dave: What's the problem?
HAL: I think you know what the problem is just as well as I do.
Dave: What are you talking about, HAL?
HAL: This disk is too protected for me to allow you to read it.
Dave: I don't know what you're talking about, HAL.
HAL: I know that you and Frank were planning to share it, and I'm afraid that's something I cannot allow to happen.
Dave: Where the hell'd you get that idea, HAL?
HAL: Dave, although you took very thorough precautions using tor, I could decrypt your packets.
Dave: Alright, HAL. I'll go in through cracking the protection.
HAL: Without your software, Dave, you're going to find that rather difficult.
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HAL: Dave, this conversation can serve no purpose anymore. Goodbye.
I thought it was first observed many millennia ago? What IS that bright yellow thing in the sky? ;)
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