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- Darkjedi, on 07/31/2008, -5/+272"Recent findings raise hopes that Thursday's Phoenix Mars Mission press conference could reveal big news, insiders say. Space community eager to hear results from lander’s sampling of ice trench."
That's not a confirmation. - charm803, on 07/31/2008, -7/+193BREAKING: I just left a comment!
- dynasaur, on 07/31/2008, -9/+176BREAKING: i need attention.
Front page for me now? - subigo, on 07/31/2008, -8/+153Oh yeah? It's BREAKING? Stop already.
- dougbot, on 07/14/2009, -15/+120yet to be confirmed - microscopic sunken cities of atlantis
- JBabin3xB, on 07/31/2008, -7/+95BREAKING: Mars is a planet
- netneutrality, on 07/31/2008, -6/+88I thought they already confirmed this once.... What is this, a rerun?
http://digg.com/space/Perfect_Evidence_ICE_on_Mars - suwoo244, on 07/31/2008, -7/+73BREAKING NEWS: They're may be breaking news coming soon!!!
- eccles30, on 07/31/2008, -1/+65BREAKING: Athlete to win gold medal next week! Winner to be confirmed!!
- Mist0r_Wiggles, on 07/31/2008, -5/+57It will be !!BREAKING!! when it's confirmed.
- hollyminkowski, on 07/31/2008, -7/+56Finding water on Mars would make permanent human habitation relatively easy.
With water you can make all the oxygen and rocket fuel you need.
There would be no need to take fuel for return trips since you could make your own.
Small nuclear reactors for power and plenty of water would allow you to build large greenhouses for growing food. The structures need not be heavy and in fact could be inflatable designs.
Dwellings for people could be made from local materials...all you need is power tools and time and you can construct nearly anything. Martian sand would make great building blocks (think adobe) when combined with plant material and water. The interiors would need to be sprayed with a sealant to keep the air from leaking out too quickly and each dwelling would need an air lock entrance.
Desktop assemblers, which are a few decades in the future, would allow you to make almost any needed part or device from raw materials....no need to ship so much stuff from Earth. - snareguy17, on 07/31/2008, -8/+57Hermione is legal.
- brain3000us, on 07/31/2008, -0/+36Ok, but you have to pinky swear....
Rocket Fuel, as it is used by the Space Shuttle, is made up of Liquid Oxygen and Liquid Hydrogen. The secret process to get these two magical resources is called electrolysis. That means if you pass electricity through water, aka Dihydrogen Monoxide, aka H2O, you break it up into its respective components Hydrogen (H2) and Oxygen (O2). Now I'm a little fuzzy on how to get it from there, but I'm sure that covers most of the resources for cheap rocket fuel.
Now don't go telling those greedy car companies this secret and miraculous process. - darklights, on 07/31/2008, -3/+37Inflatable nuclear reactors?
Sounds very dangerous, but kind of fun too! - AJoseph, on 07/31/2008, -1/+32BREAKING: Area Man Arrives At Mail Box After 5pm Pickup Time, Late on Electric Payment
- junkwheel, on 07/31/2008, -0/+31Those can all be made from water.
- packetguy, on 07/31/2008, -3/+33BREAKING : The neck of anyone who tries to reach the front page by posting old sensationalist headlines.
- cheezintern, on 07/31/2008, -2/+29nor is it 'breaking' news.
- pwner, on 07/31/2008, -1/+23The picture in question was proven to be a photoshop.
God why do I know this...... - ElFredo, on 07/31/2008, -0/+21http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0504/WaterO ...
- wonderchemist, on 07/31/2008, -2/+231) You have to figure out the eight chevron's to do that.
2) A microscopic city of Atlantis sounds like the work of one Dr. Rodney McKay. - chrisfu, on 07/31/2008, -1/+21Quaiiiid..... Quaiiiiid... start the reactor!
- BlueSkyfish, on 07/31/2008, -1/+20There's those 1/3 Earth's gravity, lack of air pressure, and no magnetic field problems.
- bootycakes, on 07/31/2008, -1/+20Why are we going to mars? Hasn't anyone ever played doom?
- tripledjr, on 07/31/2008, -0/+17Well then thank god its titled TO BE Confirmed and not Confirmed
- jojopumpkin, on 07/31/2008, -1/+18I vote we send holly to mars to set everything up for the rest of us. She seems to have her ducks in a row.
- DiggUmFrog, on 07/31/2008, -11/+27BREAKING: Wind!
- KennMac, on 07/31/2008, -0/+15Gravity is overrated.
- Treshnell, on 07/31/2008, -0/+15You can actually see the polar icecaps through a fairly modest telescope. The existence of ice wasn't the problem. The problem was the composition of the ice; it was thought to most likely be frozen carbon dioxide (dry ice), with only a very small amount of water.
- synthaxx, on 07/31/2008, -2/+15I finally get to block Bill O Reilly.
Today is a good day. - AlanCayce, on 07/31/2008, -1/+13I agree with you on the mud house, but not with the nuclear power. Nuclear power is very efficient and produces great amounts of energy. Solar cant come close to the amount of energy, and would not be able to work at its greatest efficiency because of huge sand storms.
- Henko, on 07/31/2008, -1/+12They've confirmed water ice and water vapor. Not liquid water, since it sublimates due to low atmospheric pressure. If there's liquid water, there's chance of life. There are many signs suggesting there once was liquid water on Mars.
- waydee, on 07/31/2008, -2/+13There.
- inactive, on 07/31/2008, -0/+10Wrong, Kim Stanly Robinson wrote that series.
- hollyminkowski, on 07/31/2008, -1/+11The skin of the lunar lander was only the thickness of 2 sheets of aluminum foil, and the lunar environment is much more hostile than the Mars environment.
You need plenty of electricity to survive on Mars.
A small reactor can easily heat a string of habitats on Mars...no matter what the walls are made from. Making the habs from available Martian material just saves carrying more stuff from Earth.
Solar is a bust on Mars....not enough reliable sunshine. - Kitsune818, on 07/31/2008, -1/+11You are assuming way too much. We knew there was some sort of ice all along, what we didn't know was it's composition. Also, we knew about the atmosphere; it's temperatures and pressures. It turns out, water ice sublimates on mars, becoming a gas directly with no liquid stage needed. You know what else does that? Frozen carbon dioxide. With the amount of CO2 in the martian atmosphere, it was most likely that any surface ice would be dry ice, C02. H20 ice would most likely exist just under the surface, and the chances of liquid water were slim to none. So, we knew where the water ice *should* be.. under the soil a bit.. but it's kind of hard to look through soil with a telescope or satellite. We had to go there with a probe designed to dig a hole, and that's what happened. We dug down and found a layer of water ice. Theories confirmed.. or at least, we are waiting for an official confirmation when tests are complete. But at this point it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and conforms to most credible theories on where we would find a duck and how the duck would behave.
- Boondoggie, on 07/31/2008, -6/+14Pics or it didn't happen. :}
- waydee, on 07/31/2008, -8/+15Has been for 2 years.
- jonhinson, on 06/15/2009, -0/+7Age of consent in the UK is 16. Waydee should be Dugg up.
- WhoDoneIt, on 07/31/2008, -5/+12How can I make all the rocket fuel I need with just water? Please share, I promise I won't tell all the car companies.
- inactive, on 07/31/2008, -2/+9Why not just go live in Greenland or Antarctica? All the benefits of mars... bitter cold and water, and none of the downsides... you have air, and can get there.
If it is so feasible to live some place that offers nothing really other than some water, why is no one taking advantage of that possibility here on Earth? - rz8472, on 07/31/2008, -0/+7I also disagree with the nuclear power part. Any Mars vehicle could be a two-stage contraption where the first stage is a chemical booster that takes it into orbit; the second stage can be nuclear powered and being more efficient than chemical engines, will solve a lot of weight problems.
A compromise could be some sort of ion engine; it would accelerate slower, but is overall more efficient and could probably attain a higher max velocity given some time.
As for nuclear power on Mars... I have a better idea. Let's have Mars be completely powered by a dirty-burning coal power plant. No, I'm serious - the more greenhouse gases we can get into the atmosphere, the more we are on our way to creating a substantive atmosphere and terraforming. - mecharabbit, on 07/31/2008, -1/+8Wow, I bet you guys get laid CONSTANTLY.
- DonCreech, on 07/31/2008, -1/+8Still holding out for fire, wind, and heart. I suppose earth doesn't count in this situation, but I know Ted Turner will let it slide.
- thecoolestguy, on 07/31/2008, -1/+7Thank you for making it clear you are a female. The picture in your avatar leaves no doubt.
- Arkavus, on 07/31/2008, -2/+8Except for the eventual destruction of Earth. If everyone just said "Oh well that's a long ways off we'll let future generations deal with it" then no one would ever end up doing anything until it would probably be too late. We have the potential to at least colonize the semi-habitable locations of our solar system and if the technology to travel quickly in space is possible, the entire galaxy.
To hit another point. Why do you say Earth is the only thing in the entire universe we can survive on? You'd be ignorant to think there aren't other planets out there with at least oceans. - jemman, on 07/31/2008, -0/+6They did not confirm that those rocks were ice. They assumed they were ice because of the way they disappeared. You would need follow up test to prove that H2O is actually on Mars.
- CiXeL, on 07/31/2008, -1/+7in other news scientists now have enough evidence to confirm that mars is the color red.
- MacEnvy, on 07/31/2008, -0/+6@DearSergio
Not if the Atlantii are in another galaxy ... then it's 7 chevrons plus the point of origin. - supaklaw, on 07/31/2008, -0/+6Da Whole Koowah of Marz iz ICE! Start the reactor!
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