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Prof: Good news everyone!
Bender: Uh oh. I don't like the sound of that.
Prof: Today you'll be making a delivery to the planet Mars!
Bender: Bo-ring. Let's go get drunk!

Since CO2 sublimates, and water does not. (It shouldn't even melt at these temperatures,) I assume that they mean CO2.

I agree though; this robot isn't as good as a human, but the folks at NASA are pretty bright. It's speculation now but after a few more tests they'll have the data they need for a solid conclusion. It's still very early in the lander's mission on Mars. We need to have a little patience.

REALLY big subwoofer.

Well now we understand why he announced the pre-emptive strike:

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn4551-bush-to-announce-manned-mission-to-mars.html [newscientist.com]

After all this time and effort, we finally found water on Mars, and we let it get away!

You see, you had a splendid joke there, and then you went and spoiled it.
Any truly civilized individual knows that a Martini is made with gin, not vodka.

Sheesh, when will these damn colonials ever learn ?

Are you refering to the Philip J. Fry from universe A or universe 1?

There's no such word as democratyatize. It's democratalyze. Sheesh.

I think the most important thing, and it is something that everyone keeps missing, is that NASA has found a way to turn even rocket scientists into ditch diggers!
Imagine a bright young engineer studying hard on saturday nights, while all his friends are getting drunk and laid, and thinking how he'll have a successful career with NASA. And when thinking about his lucky friends he says to himself "the world needs ditchdiggers too."
And some day he gets into NASA, and his boss's first words are:
"Johnson, this ain't rocket science, Phoenix has landed and I need you do dig me a ditch..."

But, I'm probably wasting my time arguing logical, on-topic points with an obvious liberal.

You use vodka out of respect for the fallen Russian probes. When the Dutch lose more probes on Mars to the Russians, we can start switching to gin.

This time they really really really really really really found water. Just like the last time they really really really found water. But that one time they found water they really didn't. But this time they really almost definitely did.

Democratyatize is a perfectly cromulent word.

When did we vote? Was I asleep?

where you see a problem i see opportunity

send 10 fat guys to mars in a small capsule loaded with beans, rice, corn dogs, garlic knots, etc

when the capsule reaches mars, BOOM, a little percussion decompression, and voila: instant martian atmosphere

Blue sky on Mars.

There is absolutely no need to prove that the Earth is the center of the universe, orbited by the other celestial bodies.

Just pull up a Ptolemaic diagram (google is your friend), look at the center (i.e. within the orbits of the planets), and what do you see?

A circle which is, in fact, the Earth.

And what does the fact that the Sun and all other celestial bodies have concentric orbits around the Earth prove?

Bingo. Geocentrism.

If you'd like, I could draw you a diagram that says that at certain pressures ice instantly turns to chocolate milk. Do you want me to do that? It'll change everything you thought you knew about the universe.

But in order to know if that phase diagram is correct, it must first be proved by someone.
And then there's always that certain kind of people who can believe what someone else has proved.
You know, the kind that says "It hasn't been 100% proved that smoking causes cancer, I've never seen smoking cause cancer. Look. I just smoked a cigarette. No cancer."
And the "That proves nothing, it might have been god who did it" crowd. :P

Both are listed in the dictionary.

*CRASH* (That was the sound of all the world's high altitude aircraft falling from the sky from the accumulation of ice the ceased to sublimate from the wings).

Because now they have proof that Mars has weapons of mass sublimation.

who gives a f*ck about an oxford comma?

Our culture of freedom is superior to the bacterial culture, therefore we must liberate them.

We'd better throw out those phase change diagrams in the schools' books and remove the triple point of water, someone on /. has confirmed ...
IT'S ALL A LIE! Water can't sublimate.

Of course, since the triple point of water is 6.1 millibars @ 0.0098 C, and the average atmospheric pressure of Mars is 6 millibars, it can't possibly ever have favorable conditions for the sublimation of ... err ... uh, I mean, ummm ...
err ...
Uh ....
All your vapor belong to US!

...and not some unknown martian substance that just looks like ice.

Martianmallow?