Enormous Amount of Frozen Water Found on Mars 442
schweini writes "Space.com is reporting that the Mars Express probe's MARSIS (Mars Advanced Radar for Subsurface and Ionospheric Sounding) experiment has detected and measured an enormous amount of water ice near Mars' south pole, which would be sufficient to submerge the whole planet's surface underneath approximately 10m of water on average."
Re:Ray Bradbury and Burroughs were right! (Score:2, Funny)
And then what? Upload to Youtube and get sued by Viacom?
Frozen Water? (Score:4, Funny)
So how many Hummers are we talking about here?
Re:Global warming beat us there (Score:2, Funny)
Heh. The CAPTCHA for this post was "airbag".
Martian Water-world (Score:5, Funny)
Thank god. [wikipedia.org]
Obligatory Planet Joke (Score:2, Funny)
Sorry
Re:Just wait.. (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Measurement Nitpicking (Score:5, Funny)
get on the phone with nasa before its too late!
Metric System Nitpicking (Score:2, Funny)
Earth First! (Score:3, Funny)
So THAT's what (Score:4, Funny)
There go all my "Martian Cocaine" investments!!
Re:What are the chances... (Score:2, Funny)
OMG! Already crack-pot environmentalists are trying to blame us for "destroying" mars??? Damn, I'm sorry. I killed those baby seals, but the martian baceria - NOT GUILTY! And I didn't pour the acid on Venus either!
Re:Earth First! (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Obligatory Planet Joke (Score:3, Funny)
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Of course you know what this means... (Score:5, Funny)
We need to urgently plan our first colony to Mars... how shall we do it..
Re:Of course you know what this means... (Score:4, Funny)
Daniel
Re:Let's add some heat! (Score:3, Funny)
1. Bring the whole planet to a slow boil. *
2. Let planet sit until it reaches room temperature
3. Colonize!
As a side effect you would also be sterilizing the planet (at least of bacteria that can't survive boiling water, granted water would boil at a lower temp on Mars).
* For a more delicious recipe, add noodles and flavor packet after Step 1.
Re:Global warming beat us there (Score:2, Funny)
Re:We're the ocean planet (Score:5, Funny)
Man believes that there is a "God" that created the Earth for him.
71% of the Earth is covered in water.
Man has no gills.
Re:Obligatory Planet Joke (Score:2, Funny)
Re:We're the ocean planet (Score:3, Funny)
Besides, before the Great Flood only 5% of the Earth was covered with water; the rest is just leftovers.
On Mars (Score:3, Funny)