NASA to Announce 'Significant Findings' of Water on Mars Tuesday!

Space DOT com ^ | 3-1-04 | Robert Roy Britt Senior Science Writer

[Central Scrutiniser]

You forgot Richard Hoaxland, maybe water was found when they dug at a 19.5 degree angle, provided they did it on a masonic holiday.

[Cold Heat]

Dick IS from Mars!

[Socks C.]

Finally, we have an entire week’s listing of upcoming songs that will be radioed to each rover!

YO! DuDe!!

Ewe rock!!

. . . but watCh out fur guys witH dart gUns . . .

[ElkGroveDan]

We are talking about a very old rock that came from the earliest times of the galaxy.

Oh give me a break the rock was just a few million years old. In galactic terms that is just yesterday. Our Solar System is about 5 Billion years old, and the galaxy is probably about twice that age.

[Professional Engineer]

ROFLOL Thanks Socks!

[cmsgop]

That picture still gives me the creeps.

[Cold Heat]

Few million, billion, what's the difference and how do you know it came from Mars.

It has Nada to do with the present.

It is the present that will fund the interest in further study of Mars.

We can figure out the past later.

That is what I was trying to imply.

[GeronL]

AWESOME!!!

[FireTrack]

. . . but watCh out fur guys witH dart gUns . . .

LOL... Thanks, I really enjoyed yours on Phil V.!

[Iberian]

I am pumped about this, I was hoping to find an alternate source of water in case we run out. This is great news, I am calling all my relatives in Congo.

[null and void]

Perhaps. I calls 'em as I sees 'em...

[null and void]

Maybe the found a shadow vessel?

Not yet. Lots of waybeast scat, though...

[Don Joe]

Dry ice (frozen carbon dioxide) looks a lot like ice..
Who says the ice caps are ice and not dry ice or a mix of both...

anybody KNOW... am asking because this error would not be a SMALL error...

Satellite analysis (ground penetrating "something") determined massive quantities of water below the ground. I forget the exact specifics, but I do recall reading that they determined there was as much water below the surface of Mars -- in the form of permafrost -- as there is in Lake Michigan, and that it might better be described as dirty ice, rather than dirt with ice.

Of course, this presumes that their assumption that it was accurate. I believe it was not. I believe (as detailed earlier in this thread and others) that the temperatures below the surface are warm enough so that it's liquid water (except at the poles, of course). This has several obvious implications.

[adaven]

Please step away from the bong.

[lonevoice]

Hey, Mr. Tom. Thanks for the ping! I hope you didn't hurt your paws typing all that. When you see Pharmer, tell him if he'll start getting you that good catnip you won't call the coats on him again.

[eddie willers]

I won't believe it's you until I see some titty pink.

[Doc On The Bay]

Well, "Hell,"--We are "Doomed" to accept the "Concept of" our "Life" Promulgated By Those Whom we Accept as our "Social Mentors!!"

Perhaps the "Social Vision" of our "Mentors" is FLAWED!!

Perhaps our "Vision of" Human Culture is NOT "Real!"

Perhaps we come to understand that our Life will--ALWAYS--accept the "Truth Of' our status!," ,,,,,,,

Perhaps we're Just Better Than "Those we Accept as our 'Surrogates!!'"

We'RE the "GOOD GUYS!!!"

There ARE "No Better" People than Us!!--I'm SORRY to Say This, but WE--"AMERICANS"-- are the BEST CULTURE that has existed in Recorded Human History.

So a "Whole Bunch of our 'Contemporaries'" have "Claimed to" equal our Social Status;--TO DATE, there is NO "Social Status" EQUIVALENT TO "America!!"

IF,--By some "Sociological Fluke,"--Iraq manages to Achieve a TRUE Democracy, (by Subjucating "Islam" to an HONEST "Rule of Law!!"), THEN--IF "The People" are Willing to accept a True, Democratic, CONSTITUTION--we MAY, INDEED, see a "Democratic Iraq!!"

WHAT a TRIUMPH!!

& to Consider the CHAOS extant just a few days ago!!

I HOPE that the "Intelligensia" of IRAQ have "Come to Grips With" that Nation's Agony,--& have Created a Poliitical Framework Capable of Directing the Political Energy of "The Young,"--& have accepted the Responsibility to begin Building an energetic, creative Nation!"

HAITI is a "Gawdawful Mess!"

There is Little we can do to help!!

There is MUCH we can do to continue to "Live Our Lives!!"

There is VERY LITTLE we can do to effect the "Great Decisions" made "In our Name!!"

So It Is!!

Doc

[Socks C.]

Pink? you wAnt titty pink? . . . ok!

[Socks C.]

Please step away from the bong.

wHy?

[Socks C.]

. . . you won't call the coats on him again.

I DIDN'T DO IT! . . . (so shut yer yap, ok?!!!)