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Science question here...if Mars did have water once, as NASA keeps on saying, where the hell did it all go? Is it all just frozen now?
>> Anonymous
Yes and no. The planet also doesn't have much in the way of an atmosphere, so the liquid form wouldn't have that much trouble evaporating and escaping.
>> Guodzilla
News item from last week:
Scientists think that Mars may actually HAVE life...Our Viking probes may have killed some of it back in the '70's.
These landers were set up to detect EARTH-TYPE life (water + oxygen + hydrogen + phosphorus + etc) and when Martian soil was given nutrients it gave back a strong positive reading for metabolism.
Anyway, the probes irradiated the soil samples they took and repeated the experiment. This time, zip.
What scientists think now is that if there IS life on Mars, it would be based on something like water + hydrogen peroxide + ???, so the newest lander, Phoenix, is going to be programmed to look for life forms along that angle.
>> Anonymous
>>57858

water + hydrogen peroxide + ??? = profit!
>> Anonymous
I propose we send a shipment of cyano bacteria to mars.
Earth invasion get.
>> Anonymous
carbon based mindset, eh?
>> Anonymous
I eated it....
>> Anonymous
>>57875
silicon-based FTW
>> Anonymous
>>57858
nasa guy 1: "We need more funding for another mars mission to collect rocks and take pictures of rocks"

NASA guy 2: "Hmm, I know, we'll just say 'We think there might be life on mars! we need money to look for it!'"

After mission:

NASA Guy 1: "well, folks, we were wrong, no life was found and no water was found, but look more rocks! ooooo! hey... where are you going? come back!"

Lesson: we're getting bored with rocks, we need to step up research a bit, but then it'll be like another 50 years before we even land someone on mars, so we're going to be seeing a lot more damn rocks.
>> ficksed Anonymous
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I halpt to fix yore simley face
>> Anonymous
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>>57866

Absolutely. Make sure that the only life in the universe is life on Earth, just as Jesus wanted. But, if there must be life elsewhere, make sure it at least originated from earth. I've seen "Mars Attacks"; if we don't get them, they'll get us. Maybe teach the bacteria to fire lasers or something...
>> Anonymous
>>57842

Frozen in permafrost. Some's still in the ice-caps as well (though a lot of that is dry-ice as well).
>> Anonymous
>>58130
You win the thread.
>> Anonymous
hey guys what about that meteorite that crashed in canada that had organic material in it that was older than our universe's estimated age?
>> Anonymous
>>58216

You mean the one found by Russian scientists who had drilled a hole all the way to hell?