The space agency has evidence that salty water may seasonally flow on Mars.
This would mean Mars warms up enough for water to flow downhill and may create an environment that could produce life on the red planet.
Using time lapsed photos they believe they have shown water flowing downhill.
Like I said.. 🙂
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/0504/WaterOnMars2_gcc_big.jpg
I think we should first explore whether there is intelligent life in D.C. before venturing off to Mars in search of intelligent life.
Mars is Barney Frank’s nickname.
Good. Send the liberals and all the minorities that the left supposedly “embraces” to the new planet and let them live out their utopia. With a little luck,, they should all be dead within a year.
Mars bar is my favorite candy bar. Sometimes it’s hard to find; I get sick of Snickers.
Quick,
Send California to Mars.
I think the issue will be the following.
We are decendants of the martians, who by the way were mostly brilliant muslim engineers. They accidently ruined their atmosphere with CO2 from emissions and were likey to escape to earth before the planet became barren.
Thus we must act now before it is too late for us. Embrace muslims and cut all CO2 before we end up like Mars…….
Uh… that would be “lucky to escape” ( Fat Irish fingers )
What is most interesting about this is that it was a college intern who made the first discovery of this back in 2010. He ended up being one of 8 principal investigators on this finding, not just some bureaucrat from NASA..
This really is a very important and incredibly significant scientific finding.
What are the ethical implications for exploration of finding Martian life, even microbes?
Water on Mars = Life!
Fetus in womb = Not so much.
No ethical implications – we’ll tax them too!
@Dr. Tar – Curious. Is the illustration that accompanies the article cover art for Bradbury’s Martian Chronicles?
I know I’ve seen it before. Too serene for Heinlein’s The Moon is a Harsh Mistress. (From whence, BTW, come the universal truism “TANSTAAFL.”)
Water streaks…or Skid Marks?!
Wow. Thrilling.
“Send us more funding.”
Well, if it’s reported in the New York Times, it must be true.
I wonder if is can be bottled?
This was the big weekend cliffhanger. Coincidentally Mars was 2/3 water, like we are, before it got to where it is now.
The moral of the story is to act now on climate change to not be like Mars.
Here’s where it came from.
http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/File:26th_century_Mars.jpg
It’s a book cover, but I don’t know what too.
Oh yes Ted, more funding is needed. Our planet is running out of water, clean air, and ice cubes. Imagine having a drink without hearing the “most beautiful sound on earth”? Ice tinkling in your
vodka tonic?
The real question is: What kind of fish does Mars have, and when are they in season?
the book is called “Beige Planet Mars”
I am willing to move to the new frontier, I have always dreamed of living on Mars. I’ve read the Martian Chronicles over and over, I know the book inside out.
I want to live on a planet where there is no islam and no ni**ers. We will have to make sure that only nice middle class white people are allowed in, LOL
I thought it was Uranus.
I’ll settle for nice, middle class conservative people.
Pure poetry!
You bring a tear to my eye …
What, Global Warming on Mars and we’re not even there yet?
The picture is taken from the book cover of “Beige Planet Mars”. It’s a novel by Lance Parkin and Mark Clapham. It’s sort of a spin off of the Doctor Who series, in case you’re wondering about the link ‘tardis.wikia.com.
It’s a fun book. But Doctor Who is better of course.
Thnx, Doc – guess I’ll just have to stay curious. Golden Age Sci-Fi cover art should have it’s own site. That art was a great spur to imagination & the desire & the ambition to “make it so.”
Thnx, Nash. Never got into Dr. Who – the plots were too scattershot for me – never knew what the hell was going on. I did watch the it in the late 60’s in England but that was only because of the girl in the leather loincloth.
you can ignore my comment, but that’s the name of the book.
Didn’t ignore it – Nash’s comment just came up first. Thnx for answering.
All better?
Marlin, what else?
😉
Tomorrow, the EPA will claim total control over all water on Mars.
By the way, which NASA Moslem discovered this?
Looks like the EPA was already there judging by the color of the water…
They sure had a way of sparking the imagination. Too bad not all the stories were as good as the cover art would have one think.
http://scifi-covers.com/
Water streaks can usually be buffed out…..
Send a drunk Kennedy. They will find the water and drive a vehicle into it.
Abdul Nasa
Thnx again, Doc. Lotta old friends names on that site I hadn’t heard in a while – Simak, Sturgeon, Van Vogt, De Camp, Le Guin, Leiber, Brunner, Silverberg, Poul Anderson, Bloch, Pohl, etc.
What magic there was then.
Fascinating idea isn’t it? The Cassini spacecraft is going to make a 30 mile close approach to Saturn’s moonlet Enceladus October 28th to sample the liquid water spewing into space from its south pole. The presence of a liquid ocean that the entire crust is floating on was recently revealed, and it too holds to very real possibili9ty that some form of life has evolved there that lives off the energy from Enceladus’ hot rocky core.
When Cassini arrived at Saturn in 2004 we knew of 5 moons orbiting Saturn. Now we know of 63…still a lot we do not know about how and where life may have risen.
So “Climate Change” as hit Mars too. Must be from all the emissions given off by the Mars Rovers Opportunity and Curiosity.
Mankind strikes again!
We’re both going to Hell, you know…you for saying that, and me for laughing my ass off over it.
Prepare the handbaskets…!
; D
So the streaks just start and stop in the same place, every single year? They don’t spread sideways, they don’t stop short, they don’t drip further down and when there isn’t “water”, the water deposit stains (or ditches) are still there? In the exact same place? Not deeper, wider or make a slight curve?
*rolls eyes* NASA, clean your fucking lenses. You’re the same idiots who said they saw a face on Mars.
Mars has water, sunlight and
reasonable gravity billions of miles
from DC.
If you can catch a cab with some
decent tech in the trunk, you can call
it home. That’s Exciting.
Fish in Mars don’t smell fishy……… yet!
Sorry, but NASA never said that. Pareidolists did.
There’s another kind?
Considering it was published in the NYT, it’s probably a LIE.