NASA Broadcast: Mars Mystery Solved

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  1. SheepHugger

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    "So you guys found flowing water on Mars, what are you going to do next?"

    -"Drink it."
     
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    Vargyr Well Liked Thrall

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    So.. Galileo was right the whole time?
     
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    Can't watch the video, at work ATM. What is the big announcement?
     
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    Flowing water on surface, and probably sub-surface of Mars. It's super briny though, and thus it can flow as liquid at -14 C or above.
     
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    I fucking love science.
     
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    When most people say that, they mean that they love the results of science.

    With a pretty space background and a quote from the wrong scientist.
     
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    Dihm Speaker of the Word Staff Member Gothi SC Thane

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    Sorry, 'I love fucking Science'. That's what I named my octopus fleshlight
     
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    And there's the dihm we all know and love.
     
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    It's not bestiality if you insert a fleshlight into a sheep first! The sheep's just accessory to the fleshlight.
     
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    you know the male octopus rips its own dick off to give to the female so you can impregnate itself right...

    im sure you know as being a human you can only do that trick once as it aint going to grow back.



    since water is flowing wonder how long till we find life. it might be only a summer life time thing and lays dormant during the winter. lots of things do that on earth as well.
     
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    That's some cool news, unlike that useless rock, Pluto.
     
  13. Trevnor

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    You're funny, considering we had no fucking clue that a small dwarf planet could have that much geological activity.
     
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    Sheogoraath Worst Person in the Universe Viking

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    Yeah, how dare you impugn Pluto, Hep.
     
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    Still useless to us though, activity or no.
     
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    It's not useless to SCIENCE!
     
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    I knew there was liquid water on mars the whole time. i just had no evidence.
     
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    Yeah, okay, that's funny. :happybear:
     
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    A guess does not mean much.

    There was recently some hindu activist group that were claiming that Newton was 'ripping off' some old hindu sage who 'discovered gravity' before him.

    Upon closer inspection the sage offered no mathematical formulas, nothing. He merely said something along the lines "what goes up must come down" which is a common observation known not only to cave men but also to most animal kingdom who have builtin models for gravity in their nervous system.

    It is quite one thing to say "Oh, I think bla bla" and to offer a formula by which you can actually forecast future events.

    For water etc., it might be reasonable to have some sort of a scientific model for explaining how celestial bodies are formed and how that water gets there or some empiric evidence that can be used to improve your model if the findings don't fit the model.


    A lot of people have seen 'canals' on the surface of Mars. Sometimes these were mistaken as a proof for civilization using irrigation on Mars.

    When telescopes and optics got better the 'canals' were no longer observed. They were likely a result of both poor optics and a desire to see such things.