User: nasty_penguin

Low Pressure atmosphere makes water evaporate

On: Mars May Be Dry After All

Because mars has a much weaker gravitational field at the planet surface compared to Earth, Mars can only hold a thin atmosphere of carbon dioxide. This means that the atmospheric pressure is low. The lower the air pressure, the lower the evaperation tempurature of water. Water at 0^C will quickly evaporate in a vacuum.

I am guessing that combination of mars's tempurature and atmospheric pressure predict that whatever native and "aquired" water quickly evaporated.

Re:Who's afraid of Big Bad Bill?

On: The Impact on Open Source of Stolen Microsoft Code

I quite agree, MS, or anyone else for that matter does not have the resources, man power etc. to track down every developer or potential developer on projects such as samba, or wine. Besides the above constraints, MS would also be constrained by the fear of bad press, consumer/governmental reaction ... However powerfull microsoft is, they do indeed have finite power. The resources to shutdown any open source project are enormous (developers around the world, source code already in the hands of future potential developers). I think it is the very nature of open source that makes it impossible to eradicate. We should all be aware of posibility of such legal tactics against open source software in the future. There seems to be a lot of paranoid conspiracy theorists amongst ourselves :-)