Water on Mars.

EvilMario · Post by **EvilMario** » Wed Mar 03, 2004 4:21 am

According to a lot of NASA hoopla today The Opportunity rover has found a section of Mars that was apparently pissed on by giant space creatures ten thousand gazillion years ago. Err.. something like that. I'm too lazy to read it, although I saw part of the news conference.

What do you think about this discovery? Do you think at all? Do you have a sudden hunger for buffalo testicles? Whatever the case, vote and flame me. Thanks.

The Opportunity (search) rover has found evidence that the Red Planet was once wet enough for life to exist there, but it has not discovered any direct traces of life, they said.

"Opportunity has landed in an area of Mars where liquid water once drenched the surface," said Edward Weiler, associate NASA administrator for space science, at a news conference. "This area would have been a good, habitable environment."

A study of a fine, layered rock by the rover detected evidence of sulfates and other minerals that form in the presence of water. The finding does suggest that if there had been life present when the rocks were formed, then the living conditions could have permitted an organism to flourish. The study, however, has found no direct evidence of living organisms.

"The ground would have been suitable for life," said Steve Squyres, lead investigator for science instruments on Opportunity. "That doesn't mean life was there. We don't know that."

Opportunity found "an astounding amount of salt," said Benton C. Clark III, a member of the rover team. This was found not only on the surface but confirmed when the rover bored into a rock outcropping with its abrasion tool.

"The only way you can form such large concentrations of salt is dissolve it in water and allow the water to evaporate," Clark said.

NASA launched the Mars Exploration Rover mission to see whether "at least one part of Mars had a persistently wet environment that could possibly have been hospitable to life," James Garvin, a lead NASA scientist, said in a statement. "Today we have strong evidence for an exciting answer: Yes."
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Kjorteo · Post by **Kjorteo** » Wed Mar 03, 2004 6:06 am

OH MY GOD! WATER!! :agh:

Granted the fact that it's on Mars makes it important to some people somewhere, I guess, but..yeah.

nps · Post by **nps** » Wed Mar 03, 2004 7:27 am

ahahahaha

look at bush dance!

Mooseka · Post by **Mooseka** » Wed Mar 03, 2004 11:16 am

Kjorteo wrote:OH MY GOD! WATER!!

Granted the fact that it's on Mars makes it important to some people somewhere, I guess, but..yeah.

Buhh, you dick face. Water means that mars could have supported life at one point =(

HOW CAN YOU NOT CARE

Kjorteo · Post by **Kjorteo** » Wed Mar 03, 2004 11:22 am

Mooseka wrote:Buhh, you dick face. Water means that mars could have supported life at one point =(

HOW CAN YOU NOT CARE

Please fill out all possible implications and/or effects Mars having once supported life would have on my day-to-day life in the space below:
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Mooseka · Post by **Mooseka** » Wed Mar 03, 2004 11:38 am

my name is kjwohkohkwhjwhatever and I don't care about the big picture because I'm too busy jerking off to videos of children being raped by wild animals.

buhh buhh buhh.

Post by **Dr. Dos** » Wed Mar 03, 2004 11:47 am

And he won't share! :(

Mooseka · Post by **Mooseka** » Wed Mar 03, 2004 11:58 am

EXACTLY.

642 · Post by **642** » Wed Mar 03, 2004 8:50 pm

OMG! THER COULD HAV BEN LIVE ON MARZ ONSE!!!1!11!

Who really gives a fuck?

Mooseka · Post by **Mooseka** » Wed Mar 03, 2004 10:46 pm

OMG! APPLIANCE IS ABOUT TO GET HIS CRACKA ASS BANNED.

again, who gives a shit?

Post by **Dr. Dos** » Wed Mar 03, 2004 10:49 pm

Mooseka wrote:
Kjorteo wrote:OH MY GOD! WATER!!

Granted the fact that it's on Mars makes it important to some people somewhere, I guess, but..yeah.
Buhh, you dick face. Water means that mars could have supported life at one point =(

HOW CAN YOU NOT CARE

You seem to :(

That or I lost my ability to sense sarcasm :(((

Mooseka · Post by **Mooseka** » Wed Mar 03, 2004 11:09 pm

I do care, though =(((((((((((

Post by **Zenith Nadir** » Wed Mar 03, 2004 11:11 pm

see the thing is it doesn't matter particularly because whatever they discover, mars is still a shithole

the reason they're making a bigassed deal over it is because if they find evidence of life on mars, it means that life can exist pretty much anywhere that doesn't totally suck

and that's pretty neat.

Zephyr · Post by **Zephyr** » Thu Mar 04, 2004 2:15 am

Zenith Nadir wrote: and that's pretty neat.

I'm pretty neat.

Post by **Dr. Dos** » Thu Mar 04, 2004 2:24 am

Yeah but a planet that has absolutely nothing on it is better than you.

z2

Water on Mars.

What do you think about the recent discovery of water on Mars?

Water on Mars.