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Ice Ocean on Mars: What's Next?
Fox News ^ | May 30, 2002 | Rand Simberg

Posted on 05/30/2002 10:59:33 AM PDT by NonZeroSum

Edited on 04/22/2004 12:33:39 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

We've got the ice

(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: colonization; exploration; ice; mars; space; water
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This isn't the whole column--there's also a piece on when the Jewish Sabbath begins in orbit, and a bunch of letters about last week's column on the Ming Dynasty and the Chinese space program.
1 posted on 05/30/2002 10:59:34 AM PDT by NonZeroSum
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To: NonZeroSum
>>What's Next?

A Greenpeace boat full of Ecofreaks in spacesuits, circling the ocean, preventing NASA spacecraft from landing on Mars.

2 posted on 05/30/2002 11:01:31 AM PDT by pabianice
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To: pabianice
Sorta similiar to the plot of a science fiction novel I'm coauthoring( can't give any more details) and yes I'm coauthoring because I can't write worth crap.
3 posted on 05/30/2002 11:25:23 AM PDT by weikel
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To: NonZeroSum
What's Next?

OIL?

4 posted on 05/30/2002 11:29:15 AM PDT by Musket
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To: pabianice
Greenpeace boat full of Ecofreaks in spacesuits, circling the ocean, preventing NASA spacecraft from landing on Mars.

I'd vote for sending them all to the moon now, without the benefit of those environmentally incorrect man-made, non-bio-degradable energy wasting spacesuits.

5 posted on 05/30/2002 11:34:19 AM PDT by Maceman
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To: NonZeroSum
"Ice Ocean on Mars: What's Next? "

They want money?

6 posted on 05/30/2002 11:42:45 AM PDT by ex-snook
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To: Musket
In a word, yes.

There are stories of various oil reservoirs replenishing themselves from unknown sources and that lend credence to the theory that 'oil' is left over planet making stuff.

IF these observations and theories are correct then 'oil' should be equally plentiful on Mars. That's another good reason to go there.

7 posted on 05/30/2002 11:56:24 AM PDT by dhuffman@awod.com
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To: pabianice
Damn! You beat me to it!
8 posted on 05/30/2002 12:27:19 PM PDT by sheik yerbouty
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To: Brett66;RightWhale;TheVictor;RadioAstronomer;Cincinnatus
Ping
9 posted on 05/30/2002 12:40:29 PM PDT by NonZeroSum
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To: NonZeroSum
Fox News comes through. It's mainstream news now.
10 posted on 05/30/2002 12:47:04 PM PDT by RightWhale
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To: pabianice
Ice Ocean on Mars: What's Next?

I'm thinking, N H L, hockey team.

11 posted on 05/30/2002 12:48:22 PM PDT by Highway55
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To: Confederate Keyester
No wonder there was no news from the press conference we have been waiting for since 22 May.

This was supposed to be the day this whole mission to Mars busted out in a big way.

Well, guess what. It broke anyway, and NASA is out of the loop. Fire O'Keefe.

Say what?

Fire O'Keefe!

14 posted on 05/30/2002 1:46:59 PM PDT by RightWhale
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To: weikel
I'm coauthoring because I can't write worth crap.

Maybe so, but you ask a lot of good questions.

15 posted on 05/30/2002 1:48:20 PM PDT by RightWhale
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To: RightWhale
Why fire O'Keefe? There was never going to be any announcement about a Mars mission this week. That was just a rumor spread by clueless reporters (probably at the BBC).
16 posted on 05/30/2002 1:57:16 PM PDT by NonZeroSum
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To: pabianice
>>What's Next?

A Greenpeace boat full of Ecofreaks in spacesuits, circling the ocean, preventing NASA spacecraft from landing on Mars.

They're preparing lawsuits as we speak... our very presence there will cause catastrophic Martian global warming, resulting in the melting of the ice oceans and destruction of Martian life as we know it. < / sarcasm >

17 posted on 05/30/2002 2:00:26 PM PDT by mr.sarcastic
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To: NonZeroSum
O'Keefe is a beancounter who might know where the beans are but has no interest in developing outer space. His assignment is to get the agency's books balanced. The mission of the agency doesn't matter to him.
18 posted on 05/30/2002 2:08:23 PM PDT by RightWhale
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To: RightWhale
Thanks :).
19 posted on 05/30/2002 2:21:07 PM PDT by weikel
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To: RightWhale
I don't agree.

But he knows, as you apparently don't, that vision is useless if you can't manage a program competently, and demonstrate it to the people who provide the funding.

20 posted on 05/30/2002 2:26:35 PM PDT by NonZeroSum
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