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Will it be the discovery of liquid or ice water, or will they go all the way and declare there is/was life on Mars?
Oil, and the fleet is on the way
Oil, and the fleet is on the way
Shell have just pulled out of the Arctic. Makes you think...
I bet the Queen already has an army on site
It really does help you work, rest and play.
They've found alien life? Just a shame that they all look like Matt Damon!
NASA are going to open a bike park on Olympus Mons, uplifts the lot.
what would be the best wheel size for Mars bearing in mind the lower gravity?
They have found a Hermes 'sorry you were out' card.
In a brief moment of not being a tool, thanks OP. I hadn't registered this before, quite interested now.
This song came to mind.
water and some amino acids
possibly an energy gel wrapper
The are going to announce Matt Damon really is suck up there and they are just going to leave him there
They really have got smaller.
"water and some amino acids"
You mean an astronaut has reached there and spaffed himself all over it?
Whatever is announced I for one look forward to a battle between the UFO Tinfoilers (speculating on what else they found out there) and the Naysayer Tinfoilers who say Mars doesn't really exist. 😀
Re-releasing [i]Pump Up The Volume[/i]?
If it's life I'll eat my bike.
Water sounds plausible, and is about the only other "ooh, massive news!!1!" I can think of.
A girl?
They've found Freddie Laker...
A woman with 3 breasts?
A girl?
Spiders surely?
Its water.
Liquid water as there is water allready but it is frozen
Spiders was a better answer though
So where were the spiders...?
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Liquid water as there is water allready but it is frozen
excuse my chemistry but that is still water
They're gonna sent the refugees there....
Imagine if the Rover dug down and found Snickers.
IMAGINE
Civilisations would fall.
excuse my chemistry but that is still water
True but the difference between liquid water and frozen water is quite significant* and the announcement wont be to tell us something we already know
*Crosses fingers your biology is as good as your chemistry 😉
White dog poo ?
Marshenge.....Google it FTW
Well I got through a couple of years playing at Chemistry 🙂
There is a significance in the state of the water but water frozen or not is still H2O
I'm going with Hitler though I can bet Brian Cox is wetting himself silly already in wonderment.
One of the interpretations of the Fermi paradox says that discovery of life on mars, multi-cellular life in particular, would spell the doom of humanity. The worst possible news, as it would imply that complex life must be common in the universe, yet no one's come to visit [brilliantly explained at [url= http://waitbutwhy.com/2014/05/fermi-paradox.html ]waitbutwhy[/url]].
So let's hope they've just found a new rock.
I can bet Brian Cox is wetting himself silly already in wonderment
A wet Dream?
A wet Dream?
A Wet D:Ream
get it right! 🙂
I'm going with Hitler
Thought he was on the dark side of the moon...
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I'm going with a huge giant Head.. facing into space, towards Us.
God
It's going to go two ways
Water, really who gives a f***
The second more interesting one features
Religious zealots climbing over themselves to
One of the interpretations of the Fermi paradox says that discovery of life on mars, multi-cellular life in particular, would spell the doom of humanity. The worst possible news, as it would imply that complex life must be common in the universe
I assume that they would be from the same source billions of years ago, so not independent spontaneous creation of life, just one seed source evolving at different rates.
Shergar, Lord Lucan, and all the people who went missing in the Bermuda Triangle?
Is Barry Manilow in your head now? 😈
The point though is that if we're not unique, we're statistically very unlikely to be one of only two instances of life, even if we came from the same 'seed'.
My money's on liquid water (or at least easily extractable water) but if I get a second wildcard I'm going for a Martian singing 'One Cornetto' on a martian canal gondola 😉
They've found Hiroko Ai
Jamie?
Proof the Sunday Sport was a factual publication?
A small mountain of single socks?
It's a god awful small affair.
things can only get wetter
Oh, very good.
I think really the briny water is just the hot dog factory overspill.
Could be - depends on the whereabouts of the great filter. If it's right at the very beginning of life - the very first steps in self-replication, then you can think of it happening, and then some sort of panspermia process seeding neighbouring planets for it to develop.
I assume that they would be from the same source billions of years ago, so not independent spontaneous creation of life, just one seed source evolving at different rates.
If the filter is further along, though, then it's bad news because there is no chance of two lifeforms developing separately, next door to one another, and both surmounting the filter - ie it must lie in the future.
Dark spots caused by flowing water is the current most likely. 4.30 our time is when the press conference starts.
Oh, apparently it's out already 🙂
Nasa has announced that it has found evidence of flowing water on Mars — a discovery with potentially huge implications for the possibility of life on the planet. Scientists have long suspected that the planet might have running water. But the new findings confirm that it is on the planet, combined with “hydrated salts” in a brine. Normally, water on Mars freezes or evaporates, because of the intense environment on the planet. But the addition of salts means that it is much more stable, allowing it to survive on the Red Planet.
Cool! Water not ice.
So have they found water or simply evidence that it might be there?
water is liquid on mars from 0C to 10C
salt water us liquid from -70C (I think) to 24C and is found in loads of locations all over mars.
basicall it's not just the discover of liquid water, but a fairly detailed explaination of the water cycle on mars.
This is very good for human colonisation and also for further search for life on mars.
The chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one, they said.
Drac - Moderator
Cool! Water not ice.
Does this mean that there's been a climate change? Have they hit the industrial revolution?
went passed that about 3 billion years ago.paulosoxo - Member
Drac - Moderator
Cool! Water not ice.
Does this mean that there's been a climate change? Have they hit the industrial revolution?
well done trimix 🙂
Will I live in the unluckiest manned space exploration generation ever?
ie, miss the moon landings, and die before further moon/Mars manned missions?
miss the moon landings
I'm sure someone must have taped them for you.
How could they tape something THAT NEVER HAPPENED! #tinfoilhat
Wait till they fake the Mars landings
Great film.
Spoiler alert, the BBC have just revealed it's Water..
slimjim78 - Member
Will I live in the unluckiest manned space exploration generation ever?ie, miss the moon landings, and die before further moon/Mars manned missions?
I'd take the culmination of knowledge we have right now over seeing the moon landings live.