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Title: Water Discovered on Mars
Post by: mrwho on July 31, 2008, 06:17:31 PM
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25954096

Cool, I wondered how long it'd be until they got samples from the poles
Title: Re: Water Discovered on Mars
Post by: Will on July 31, 2008, 06:29:23 PM
wonderful, must be a party down at NASA
Title: Re: Water Discovered on Mars
Post by: old_blaggard on July 31, 2008, 06:59:54 PM
Cool!  Although I didn't realize that Phoenix was only scheduled to operate for three months; you would think that with all of the effort, time, and money that NASA put into it they would want to make it last as long as possible.
Title: Re: Water Discovered on Mars
Post by: Will on July 31, 2008, 07:00:48 PM
like the last two probe you mean?
Title: Re: Water Discovered on Mars
Post by: Seth on August 01, 2008, 10:53:23 AM
hehehe that is at least the third time they officially announce they discovered water on Mars...
i hope next time we'll have something really new ;)
Title: Re: Water Discovered on Mars
Post by: buzzzzz1 on August 01, 2008, 11:32:52 AM
Yeah! Like Oil !  ;D
Title: Re: Water Discovered on Mars
Post by: Seth on August 01, 2008, 11:33:50 AM
lool
"New Bagdad"
Title: Re: Water Discovered on Mars
Post by: buzzzzz1 on August 01, 2008, 11:36:27 AM
Then they could build the Mars Pipeline and put all the unemployed to work.  Oh no! Could you imagine a oil spill in space?
Title: Re: Water Discovered on Mars
Post by: Yoda Almighty on August 01, 2008, 03:47:51 PM
that would be bad.

however, discovering oil on mars would mean that there was once plant life there.
Title: Re: Water Discovered on Mars
Post by: Will on August 01, 2008, 05:43:42 PM
even better it would mean that NASA would get funding again from the govt.
Title: Re: Water Discovered on Mars
Post by: Seth on August 01, 2008, 07:22:43 PM
Quote from: Will on August 01, 2008, 05:43:42 PM
even better it would mean that NASA would get funding again from the govt.

;D
Title: Re: Water Discovered on Mars
Post by: matrix2003 on August 02, 2008, 12:09:59 PM
Quote from: seth93 on August 01, 2008, 10:53:23 AM
hehehe that is at least the third time they officially announce they discovered water on Mars...
i hope next time we'll have something really new ;)

Yeah, imagine the shake up if they announced they found evidence of Plankton or single cell shit in that water!
Now that news would rock the world!  Might even get NASA in trouble with the Pope.  ::)
Title: Re: Water Discovered on Mars
Post by: Xpleet on August 02, 2008, 05:38:46 PM
Oh god NASA's phoney program is so ridiculous.  ;D

Title: Re: Water Discovered on Mars
Post by: matrix2003 on August 02, 2008, 11:15:41 PM
How funny is this:  NASA HAS another announcement to make.  They have briefed "W" and are waiting to reveal their new secret.  (that phone call from the Pope, can't be that far off!)

http://www.universetoday.com/2008/08/02/the-white-house-is-briefed-phoenix-about-to-announce-potential-for-life-on-mars/
Title: Re: Water Discovered on Mars
Post by: Seth on August 03, 2008, 06:46:15 AM
Quote"They have discovered water on Mars for the third or fourth time," one senior Mars scientist joked.

hehehe
Title: Re: Water Discovered on Mars
Post by: rcallicotte on August 05, 2008, 12:34:06 PM
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/05/0022253

Someone posted beneath - "Perhaps I'm missing something obvious here, but how seriously are they considering the possibility of contamination? Because unless I'm remembering something wrong, perchlorates are most excellent oxidizers and hence commonly used in, oh, say, solid rocket fuel, among other things."
Title: Re: Water Discovered on Mars
Post by: matrix2003 on August 05, 2008, 04:54:15 PM
I read that too.  So is someone implying the craft's final burst is what they discovered?
Thomas Dolby- 1982:  Blinded By Science
Title: Re: Water Discovered on Mars
Post by: rcallicotte on August 05, 2008, 07:40:38 PM
The latest was a news flash from NASA - they haven't finished looking through their evidence yet to have drawn any solid conclusions.