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Positive Proof of Water on Mars 78

Posted by CmdrTaco on Friday April 01, 2005 @07:20PM from the now-we-can-put-that-one-to-rest dept.

pauliecronopolis was one of many people that noted that the popular Astronomoy Picture of the Day page has photographic proof of water on mars. It will be a little difficult for those of you who don't have a degree on geology to spot the evidence, but with a little efort, I think you'll be able to make it out.

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Positive proof of water on mars.. (Score:1)

by Kaisum ( 850834 ) writes:

Negative proof of cogent articles on Slashdot.
Thanks. (Score:5, Funny)

by The Spoony ( 872670 ) writes: on Friday April 01, 2005 @07:21PM (#12116600) Homepage

You've taken all of the fun out of refreshing the Slashdot homepage every 5 seconds.

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- Re:Thanks. (Score:1)
  
  by Kryxan ( 767161 ) writes:
  
  refresh? dont you use RSS feeds? hmm i guess what would explain why I never get first post, but whats the point?
leh (Score:1)

by Xaggroth ( 851428 ) writes:

very nice
- Re:leh (Score:1)
  
  by Xaggroth ( 851428 ) writes:
  
  no.. positive proof some people need lives.
Sorry folks...it was me. (Score:2)

by GillBates0 ( 664202 ) writes:

Had too much to drink on my way over, and couldn't hold it in no more.
Sorry to mess up your planet.
Argh (Score:1)

by datafr0g ( 831498 ) writes:

In other stories, Slashdot main man CmdrTaco got very very drunk in front of his computer last night.
- Re:Argh (Score:2)
  
  by m50d ( 797211 ) writes:
  
  Last night? Methinks he's doing it right now. Anyway, this has been in BJAODN on WP for years.
wow (Score:1)

by takeya ( 825259 ) writes:

i used a lot of efort and i still couldnt find it.

kinda interesting joke.
At least (Score:4, Informative)

by HawkingMattress ( 588824 ) writes: on Friday April 01, 2005 @07:22PM (#12116617)

This one made me laugh

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- Re:At least (Score:1)
  
  by cplusplus ( 782679 ) writes:
  
  I was about the post the same thing. As a long time APOD checker, this one made me chuckle.
- Agreed. (Score:2)
  
  by antdude ( 79039 ) writes:
  
  This is probably the best gag ever today I had seen. :)
- Re:At least (Score:2)
  
  by codemachine ( 245871 ) writes:
  
  I'm glad I saw it yesterday before it hit Slashdot, while this April Fool's stuff was remotely amusing.
It's true... (Score:2)

by _PimpDaddy7_ ( 415866 ) writes:

"It's true, I can vouch for it. See you at the party, Richter!"

Douglas Quaid/Hauser
Erm, no. (Score:3, Informative)

by The-Bus ( 138060 ) writes: on Friday April 01, 2005 @07:23PM (#12116633)

They found Dasani(TM) [electromate.com]. Precious, thirst-quenching, life-giving Dasani(TM).

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I would have laughed.... (Score:1)

by Omnieiunium ( 872399 ) writes:

I would have laughed, but I all ready saw this article. Note to Slashdot. PLEASE STOP... PLEASE.
- Re:I would have laughed.... (Score:1)
  
  by remove office ( 871398 ) writes:
  
  don't worry. the next one will be funnier. and if it isnt? there's always hope for the next one, in seven seconds.
Other News Smoke Coming Out of Uranus (Score:2)

by Fox_1 ( 128616 ) writes:

how much longer til it ends?
More breaking space news! (Score:2)

by caryw ( 131578 ) writes:

The planet Uranus is releasing gas from its atmosphere at an alarming rate! The hubble is capturing a visual which should be available in 365 days.
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Fairfax Underground: Fairfax County Message Boards, Forums, Chat [fairfaxunderground.com]
My bad. (Score:2)

by AtariAmarok ( 451306 ) writes:

Water on Mars? Sorry. my bad. I was on my way home from a conference on Yuggoth. I really had to pee bad. I stopped off and used the martian desert as my personal lavatory.
- Re:My bad. (Score:1)
  
  by WillAffleck ( 42386 ) writes:
  
  Water on Mars? Sorry. my bad. I was on my way home from a conference on Yuggoth. I really had to pee bad. I stopped off and used the martian desert as my personal lavatory.
  
  And i thought that i was the only person to do that.
  
  No wonder we have a problem.
  
  Guess we'd better pass a law against doing that. Either that or build a rest stop with water recycling no-flow toilets.
- Unhappy with your record, George? (Score:2)
  
  by AtariAmarok ( 451306 ) writes:
  
  "proof of galactial advancement during the Bush presidentcy"
  Based on the bad spelling, I can only conclude that this is really George, and he is unhappy with his own "presidenty".
A note to CmdrTaco (Score:1)

by antikarma ( 804155 ) writes:

Please remove your hand from the mouse and step away from the computer. To everyone else - Nothing to see here, please move along.
Yum (Score:1)

by bryan8m ( 863211 ) writes:

Chocolate...
sorry this one accually hurt to look at. (Score:1)

by neckdeepinspecialsau ( 756133 ) writes:

Yeah where did you get the idea for this? Uranus?
Why cam't Slashdot be this funny? (Score:1)

by ip_freely_2000 ( 577249 ) writes:

JPL and NASA geeks are funnier than Slashdot nerds.

I wonder who gets the hotter chicks?
Fucking hell. (Score:5, Funny)

by RichardX ( 457979 ) writes: on Friday April 01, 2005 @07:29PM (#12116733) Homepage

Roll on April 2nd.

Am I the only one who's had enough of this today?

I hereby propose the following catchy new slogan for Slashdot:

Slashdot. News for Nerds, Stuff That Matters, April The First Driven Into The Fucking Ground, Then Dug Up, Then Nailed Into A Coffin Then Driven Back Into The Fucking Ground Again, Rinse, Repeat Until Everyone's Sick Of It Then Do It A Bunch More Times Just In Case The Joke Isn't Old Yet.

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- Re:Fucking hell. (Score:1)
  
  by jcuervo ( 715139 ) writes:
  
  From the dead-horses department.
- Re:Fucking hell. (Score:2)
  
  by NanoGator ( 522640 ) writes:
  
  "Am I the only one who's had enough of this today?"
  
  Why are you even coming back to Slashdot today, then?
  
  Honestly. I'll never understand all this April Fool's day bitching. If you can't take a day off of Slashdot, then you've got a great deal more to bitch about.
April Fools? (Score:1)

by Striker770S ( 825292 ) writes:

i didnt get it until the site recovered from its slashdottedness. Kinda funny, i mean i didnt know there was a mars candy bar... geeze learn something every day.
fark anybody? (Score:1)

by Balaurul ( 827708 ) writes:

Pushing the reality border one inch further, /. posts a cross-site dupe: http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink =1426478 [fark.com]
Slashdot becomes more like Fark but whitout boobies and photoshop contests. Which is bad :)
- Re:fark anybody? (Score:2)
  
  by Beardo the Bearded ( 321478 ) writes:
  
  From what I've heard, getting TotalFark is like paying to read Slashdot at -1.
  
  Brrr...
To the Moon (Score:3, Funny)

by Citizen of Earth ( 569446 ) writes: on Friday April 01, 2005 @07:33PM (#12116804)

Let's just hope they don't find any proof of water on the "Moon".

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- Re:To the Moon (Score:1)
  
  by IronicCheese ( 412484 ) writes:
  
  Even worse: ICE on the moon.
  BRRR!
- Re:To the Moon (Score:2)
  
  by IntergalacticWalrus ( 720648 ) writes:
  
  As long as it isn't IN the moon it's not too bad.
- Re:To the Moon (Score:2)
  
  by thephotoman ( 791574 ) writes:
  
  Y'know, if I were a troll, I'd post a link to Tubgirl for that one. But alas, I'm no troll.
I remember... (Score:1)

by fat man with a monke ( 869132 ) writes:

back when "The next Slashdot story will be ready soon, but subscribers can beat the rush and see it early!" had a meaning
Bookmark that page (Score:3, Insightful)

by Ilgaz ( 86384 ) writes: on Friday April 01, 2005 @07:36PM (#12116841) Homepage

Serious, its one of the best pages updating daily with REAL astronomy photos. When you click on image, you can get like 1600*1200 wallpapers for free. Pure real images, no stupid filters etc applied.

I found it by chance like, it was set in my Omniweb browser on OS X.

"Cool stuff" really.

Better check previous days to see how "real" thing looks like.

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- Re:Bookmark that page (Score:1)
  
  by Seitakai ( 874091 ) writes:
  
  Sorry to burst your bubble, but "real" space is pretty boring to look at. About 99% of the "Ooooh! Cool!" pictures you see have re-mapped the colors (shade of gray #253 -> HOT RED!), added in starbursts, etc. In a suprising turn of events, most of space is in grey. Not very exciting, and definitely not a good way to get funding, so you can't really blame them for touching up the photos. As a matter of fact, the Hubble doesn't even HAVE a color camera. All of those pretty colors are added to a B&W pho
  - Re:Bookmark that page (Score:1)
    
    by Ilgaz ( 86384 ) writes:
    
    Uhm, I don't have bubble etc to bust. I wanted to inform people that site is worth looking into everyday.
    
    Also yes, I know space is colorized but at least on that site no stupid lens flair etc effects added.
    
    If you spent time checking the real site, you would see its like a space encyclopedia giving random info every day.
Looks more like... (Score:2)

by Fortran IV ( 737299 ) writes:

...a glass of chilled vodka, which could explain a lot today.
Hugs for everyone. (Score:1)

by chavo valdez ( 206049 ) writes:

For April's sake everybody lighten up. This is my favorite day of the year at slashdot.
Keep 'em coming guys. You're making my day.

Oh and I think all you guys that are bitching really need a big hug. Call your Mom down to the basement and spend some quality time with a living human being.

Is a normal slashdot day really that important to you all?
Too late? (Score:2)

by I Love this Company! ( 547598 ) writes:

Ice caps, anyone?
sigh (Score:1)

by fullofangst ( 724732 ) writes:

12pm .. 12pm is the CUT OFF for april fools. stop posting already.
Not only.. (Score:1)

by blue_adept ( 40915 ) writes:

Not only is there water on mars, if you look closely, you'll see that there's more than one mars!
Amazing.
Mirror? (Score:2)

by Trogre ( 513942 ) * writes:

Link dead
Water water everywhere! (Score:2)

by J05H ( 5625 ) writes:

Phunny photo. nasawatch.com had the infamous "Mars Hydro and Marina" picture today.

There's one problem with this ever-continuing quest for water: The Viking probes confirmed the existence of massive water reserves in the north polar caps. That was 30 years ago. A recently released image, emargoed for a couple of decades, clearly shows Vallis Marineris with dense fogbanks from wall to wall. I think the real question is what are we going to do with all that water?

image:
http://sciforums.com/attachment.php?a [sciforums.com]
Link Broken... (Score:1)

by CMan0 ( 191677 ) writes:

The link got switched because it's next day now, the correct one is this [nasa.gov]
Old Wikipedia BJAODN (Score:1)

by dionyziz ( 736817 ) writes:

This used to be in the "Bad jokes and other deleted nonsense" section of Wikipedia for a whole year, so it's not really a new joke. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Best_of_BJA ODN%23Water_on_Mars [wikipedia.org] As the image history suggests, the same picture was posted on the 1st of April, 2004. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Water_on_mars.j pg [wikipedia.org]
The real link (Score:2)

by p3d0 ( 42270 ) writes:

The picture on the link posted changes every day. Here's the permanent URL of the one referred to:
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap050401.html [nasa.gov].

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Positive proof of water on mars.. (Score:1)

Thanks. (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Thanks. (Score:1)

leh (Score:1)

Re:leh (Score:1)

Sorry folks...it was me. (Score:2)

Argh (Score:1)

Re:Argh (Score:2)

wow (Score:1)

At least (Score:4, Informative)

Re:At least (Score:1)

Agreed. (Score:2)

Re:At least (Score:2)

It's true... (Score:2)

Erm, no. (Score:3, Informative)

I would have laughed.... (Score:1)

Re:I would have laughed.... (Score:1)

Other News Smoke Coming Out of Uranus (Score:2)

More breaking space news! (Score:2)

My bad. (Score:2)

Re:My bad. (Score:1)

Unhappy with your record, George? (Score:2)

A note to CmdrTaco (Score:1)

Yum (Score:1)

sorry this one accually hurt to look at. (Score:1)

Why cam't Slashdot be this funny? (Score:1)

Fucking hell. (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Fucking hell. (Score:1)

Re:Fucking hell. (Score:2)

April Fools? (Score:1)

fark anybody? (Score:1)

Re:fark anybody? (Score:2)

To the Moon (Score:3, Funny)

Re:To the Moon (Score:1)

Re:To the Moon (Score:2)

Re:To the Moon (Score:2)

I remember... (Score:1)

Bookmark that page (Score:3, Insightful)

Re:Bookmark that page (Score:1)

Re:Bookmark that page (Score:1)

Looks more like... (Score:2)

Hugs for everyone. (Score:1)

Too late? (Score:2)

sigh (Score:1)

Not only.. (Score:1)

Mirror? (Score:2)

Water water everywhere! (Score:2)

Link Broken... (Score:1)

Old Wikipedia BJAODN (Score:1)

The real link (Score:2)

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