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NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has discovered what appears to be an ancient streambed, suggesting that water once flowed in large volumes — perhaps hip-deep in places — across the Martian surface.
Originally posted by winofiend
It almost feels as if most of the opinions about this are based on faulty understanding of Mars history (assuming people saying there is no water there, means there has never been water) and using this faulty understanding to take this news and go "AHHA! I knew it. They lied to us!" which makes me want to bang my head into a meat grinder.
Originally posted by DaveNorris
part of me hopes we find some kind of life on mars, but the other part hopes its completely void of life so we can crack on with colonizing and teraforming.
Originally posted by TheSparrowSings
I am surprised people are not more excited about this. Sure, we have been speculating for a LONG time,but now it is confirmed.
Originally posted by phroziac
Originally posted by DaveNorris
part of me hopes we find some kind of life on mars, but the other part hopes its completely void of life so we can crack on with colonizing and teraforming.
We could have both. I suspect mars is earthlike..but a desert. Seems like itd be blue if it had oceans, right? If thats the case, it could support life, but probably not a civilization. From what ive seen of martian anomalies, i suspect a major civilization never existed, but that intelligent life was there for a while. Its not like weve seen skyscrapers or anything. So, in that case the life would all be extremely adapted for keeping in water....animals would try to eat the plants for water, plants would try to hoard it all and grow weapons. So basically itd be like arizona.
So wed just have to bring a lot of water. maybe we could steal it from a comet.
Originally posted by TheSparrowSings
I am surprised people are not more excited about this. Sure, we have been speculating for a LONG time,but now it is confirmed. I, for one, have always believed water once (or still is) flowed on Mars. Now that it is solidified, I have more questions as to why it all went away.
Me = Stoked at this news!
Originally posted by OccamsRazor04
Mars is a dead planet that is why. It does not have an active core. That means no magnetic shielding like Earth has, so the atmosphere has been stripped away.
Originally posted by OccamsRazor04
Originally posted by phroziac
Originally posted by DaveNorris
part of me hopes we find some kind of life on mars, but the other part hopes its completely void of life so we can crack on with colonizing and teraforming.
We could have both. I suspect mars is earthlike..but a desert. Seems like itd be blue if it had oceans, right? If thats the case, it could support life, but probably not a civilization. From what ive seen of martian anomalies, i suspect a major civilization never existed, but that intelligent life was there for a while. Its not like weve seen skyscrapers or anything. So, in that case the life would all be extremely adapted for keeping in water....animals would try to eat the plants for water, plants would try to hoard it all and grow weapons. So basically itd be like arizona.
So wed just have to bring a lot of water. maybe we could steal it from a comet.
You really need to do some research on Mars. It is not Earh like. You can't bring water OR an atmosphere to Mars as both would disappear. Feel free to research why.