Probable Water Ice Sighted On Mars 393
CraftyJack writes "Bright white chunks in the trenches dug by the Phoenix Lander have disappeared, leading Peter Smith & co. to believe that the chunks were ice that has since sublimated."
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Probable Water Ice Sighted On Mars
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The real question is... (Score:5, Funny)
Rubbish. (Score:5, Funny)
Couple more things... (Score:5, Funny)
Yeah, we know. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:The real question is... (Score:0, Funny)
Re:Was there ever doubt? (Score:5, Funny)
If there is water, that means there is oxygen.
If oxygen, that means we can breathe.
Re:Great (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Good News (Score:3, Funny)
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!
Re:co2 ice ? (Score:3, Funny)
Since CO2 sublimates, and water does not. (It shouldn't even melt at these temperatures,) I assume that they mean CO2.
Re:This is why robots aren't great for science (Score:5, Funny)
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.
Re:Great (Score:1, Funny)
REALLY big subwoofer.
Re:The real question is... (Score:5, Funny)
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]
We Blew It (Score:5, Funny)
After all this time and effort, we finally found water on Mars, and we let it get away!
Re:what they should do (Score:5, Funny)
But what would you call it. Something Mars. I know Red Mars, then the next book gets a slightly different name.
The only problem is that the third book would probably run out of ideas about 10% of the way through.
Maybe its not such a good idea to after all...
Re:Great Scott !! (Score:5, Funny)
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 ?
Re:The real question is... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:This is why robots aren't great for science (Score:2, Funny)
Are you refering to the Philip J. Fry from universe A or universe 1?
Re:The real question is... (Score:5, Funny)
There's no such word as democratyatize. It's democratalyze. Sheesh.
Re:The real question is... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Great Scott !! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:The real question is... (Score:5, Funny)
Fighting in the dance hall.
Oh man!
Look at those cavemen go.
It's the freakiest show.
Take a look at the lawman
Beating up the wrong guy.
Oh man!
Wonder if he'll ever know
He's in the best selling show.
Is there ice on Mars?
Re:Ice Alright! (Score:4, Funny)
Water Ice? (Score:3, Funny)
I think the point that everyone keeps missing (Score:4, Funny)
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..."
Re:Great (Score:3, Funny)
Re:The real question is... (Score:5, Funny)
But, I'm probably wasting my time arguing logical, on-topic points with an obvious liberal.
When on Mars... (Score:2, Funny)
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.
They Really Really Really Found Water (Almost) (Score:5, Funny)
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.
Don't be ridiculous. (Score:4, Funny)
Democratyatize is a perfectly cromulent word.
Re:what they should do (Score:3, Funny)
When did we vote? Was I asleep?
In later news (Score:3, Funny)
Holding placards saying "Go home - Keep Mars for the Martians" - "You messed up Earth, Leave Mars Alone" - "There's no Oil Here - Go Home"
It appears we may not be welcome after all.
At last! (Score:2, Funny)
Hmmm (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Great! (Score:3, Funny)
excess flatulence? (Score:3, Funny)
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
Hey Mr! I got five kids to feed. (Score:3, Funny)
Blue sky on Mars.
Rita's Are Getting a Little Overextended (Score:1, Funny)
preach that sophist love, brother! (Score:5, Funny)
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.
Re:The real question is... (Score:3, Funny)
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.
We're (almost) ready (marshydro.com)... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:The real question is... (Score:3, Funny)
But in order to know if that phase diagram is correct, it must first be proved by someone. :P
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.
They're both words. (Score:4, Funny)
Both are listed in the dictionary.
Re:The real question is... (Score:4, Funny)
*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).
Re:The real question is... (Score:2, Funny)
Because now they have proof that Mars has weapons of mass sublimation.
Re:The real question is... (Score:1, Funny)
who gives a f*ck about an oxford comma?
Re:The real question is... (Score:3, Funny)
Our culture of freedom is superior to the bacterial culture, therefore we must liberate them.
WOW! (Score:3, Funny)
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!
Re:Was there ever doubt? (Score:2, Funny)
Martianmallow?
Re:Don't be ridiculous. (Score:3, Funny)