Bright Chunks at Phoenix Lander's Mars Site MUST HAVE BEEN ICE !!!

NASA ^ | 6/19/08

[B4Ranch]

I thought it didn’t rain on Mars?

[battlecry]

I wonder why they are not thinking it could be dry ice. With so much CO2 in the atmosphere.

[Bringbackthedraft]

A Crystalized life form, that dug itself into the surface?

[C210N]

frozen water that vaporized...

So, where is that American flag that I hear about on Mars. Did that vaporize too?

[Lancey Howard]

Those silicon-based life forms are pretty tricky.

[printhead]

CO2, CH4? Evaporate, sublimate? What do I know? And when did I know it?

[Kevmo]

This is big.

Of course, the next thing that will happen is the liberals will claim we introduced global warming on Mars as well.

[Man50D]

"We now understand what happened, and we can fix it with a software patch,"

Are they using Windows Vista? ;O)

[racing fan]

Global warming?

Where are the SUVs?

Just kidding.

[Incorrigible]

Water! Self sustained human colony on Mars here we come!

[spanalot]

Neat - it was protected by the layer of soil.

[LibWhacker]

Good question. I don’t know. Is dry ice stable at minus 60 and very low atmospheric pressures?

[LibWhacker]

Yup. Sounds like they’re confident it’s there now. The only thing remaining to do is find it in sufficient quantities to support a colony.

[ZGuy]

The original wording was Peter Smith saying “It must be ice-nine.” But then NASA edited it out for security reasons.

[ArmstedFragg]

So, where is that American flag that I hear about on Mars. Did that vaporize too?

Nah, those mean Republicans stole it.

[popdonnelly]

I’m skeptical. It didn’t look like enough ice for one gin and tonic.

[baclava]

Disappearing photo-chemo-crystalization life forms.

I knew that

[InvisibleChurch]

... he said “Chunks”!

[nuf said]

yippie skippy.

Water is a necessary but Far from sufficient ingredient for life. I can save NASA money. Look east toward that big blue liquidy mass called the Atlantic Ocean. It is Full of water and life.