What is Digg?284 Comments
- Darren07, on 06/23/2008, -16/+220Screw water, let's start drilling for oil!
- bgrah449, on 06/23/2008, -19/+96Ice on Mars should be Vanilla Ice's new album.
- edwartica, on 06/23/2008, -3/+71No, Vanilla Ice should never make a new album.
- TheHayze, on 06/23/2008, -12/+74Know what's the coolest part of discovering life on other planets? Proving, beyond a doubt, that evolution is what caused it. See, life has a funny habit of adapting its self to its surroundings, and what is available to it at the time. Thus, evolution is proven; life had to have evolved to survive. Plus life doesn't mean that it's life as we know it. Life could be something totally different, and unknown then what we may know it to be. I know the unknown scares a lot of people when it shouldn't. The unknown is very exciting, and opens a lot of doors for our minds to wonder about, explore, and think up new ideologies, and theories. True some of them might not work after all, but just think of the ones that do, and what we will learn from the ones that don't. Keep asking questions my friends.
Don't you just love science? - DaviDTC, on 06/23/2008, -1/+51Yes, it will be.
- bevans, on 06/23/2008, -4/+50your face should be punched
- hokie47, on 06/23/2008, -1/+45Now rich people will have a new ultra expensive bottle water.
- sparql, on 06/23/2008, -2/+32If you want to talk about proof.. http://www.newscientist.com/channel/life/dn14094-b ... This dude spent 20 years watching 44,000 generations of e.coli, and had a major evolutionary event. It's interesting because it happened within a lifetime
- inactive, on 06/23/2008, -8/+37Doesnt prove a thing.
Any other life could be put there by God to test our resolve.
Just like God put dinasaur bones in rocks, to test us!
Oh and screwed with time and carbon dating - to test us more!!!
(extreme sarcasm) - npsken, on 06/23/2008, -1/+26You're old and stupid!
- Ravatar, on 06/23/2008, -6/+31They'll formulate an excuse, don't worry about that.
- paintpro, on 06/23/2008, -11/+34That's nothing. Now, the first time I had sex was an important breakthrough.
- romistrub, on 06/23/2008, -3/+23Um... or...
3. Deposition http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deposition_(physics) - nydwarf, on 06/23/2008, -0/+19That was when you dropped the soap right?
- Rippleeffect, on 06/23/2008, -3/+20They suspected that water was there. Now they have visual proof. That my friend is news.
- kirado4, on 06/23/2008, -3/+20Guess who failed high school science class?
- Jexie, on 06/23/2008, -1/+17No, they're new and amazing!
- phorty40, on 06/23/2008, -0/+16indeed, this earth water is below my standards.
its bald eagle meat and ice water from mars for me ,thank you sir. - inactive, on 06/23/2008, -1/+15there's no doubt in mind that we will terraform Mars one day as we start to deplete this planet of its resources
- kazersoza, on 06/23/2008, -3/+17Get your ass to Mars!
- briguymaine, on 06/23/2008, -1/+15never happened, it was faked out in the Utah desert
- soundsofreason, on 06/23/2008, -2/+15There is one thing to take into account here... this is a different planet. I understand that comparing Mars to Earth makes sense because Earth is all we've known, but different amounts of chemicals and gases make different things happen. Just leave some room for what we might not know yet.
- Professr, on 06/23/2008, -2/+15The possibility for gay jokes here is staggering.
- inactive, on 06/23/2008, -0/+13The good part is we can't turn Mars into an arid, desolate, barren, and uninhabitable desert.
- inactive, on 06/23/2008, -2/+15Any dormant virus that killed off a civilization long ago.... ?
Careful what you look for, you just might find it! - subliminalurge, on 06/23/2008, -2/+14suspected != confirmed
- Bloodburn, on 06/23/2008, -0/+123 boobs dude........3 boobs.
- inactive, on 06/23/2008, -2/+14They actually found Smirnoff Ice, which means the Russians were there first.
- Rippleeffect, on 06/23/2008, -1/+12How wonder how long it would be before someone made that lame comment on this article.
Ice/water on another planet does not unravel any religion. - DirtPile, on 06/23/2008, -9/+19Tell me when they find bourbon.
- tdishman, on 06/23/2008, -3/+12Isn't this straight out of the storyline to Total Recall?
- MacEnvy, on 06/23/2008, -1/+10Bigger waste of half a billion dollars: 2.8 days in Iraq
I don't mind this "waste" quite so much. At least we're expanding the frontiers of human knowledge. - freezerburn666, on 06/23/2008, -1/+10its just sitting there waiting to be melted.. to create a second earth for us
- chronically420, on 06/23/2008, -9/+17correct me if im wrong but wouldnt life on mars even if its micro and/or one celled essentially throw a tractor sized monkey wrench in the gears of religion? im not adept in bible study or anything but i thought that god only created life here on earth, not mars or any other planet in our solar system for that matter, just earth.
- sodade, on 06/23/2008, -2/+10You obviously haven't read the martian version of the bible. Not that you could read it anyway earthling.
- darkcooger, on 06/23/2008, -1/+9This statement bothers me: "Water is an essential ingredient for life to survive."
Do we really know that? Are we certain that life cannot exist - in any form - without water? What makes water so special? Water happens to be essential to life *as we know it* but surely there's a lot we don't know, and we don't know that life cannot possibly exist without water.
Not to downplay the significance of the find because certainly finding water somewhere other than Earth is huge, but it really irks me that we seem so arrogant as to believe that our experience of life is definitive. - radiodemon, on 06/24/2008, -0/+8Well I heard Mars has weapons of mass destruction
- nerdherder, on 06/23/2008, -0/+8Dont say chillax.
- toysoldier72, on 06/23/2008, -2/+9If Bush had a couple more years we would be bro.
- angusm, on 06/23/2008, -3/+10If you think that religious believers are going to change the way they think just because someone stumbles across a few unicellular organisms, you haven't spent much time talking to religious people. Some of them will probably deny it outright (after all, these Martian life-forms were found by _scientists_, who everyone knows are tools of Satan), the majority will just conclude that their religion doesn't specifically exclude the possibility of life elsewhere, and go right on believing.
And some of them will start raising money for a Mission to Martian Microbes, so that the poor little organisms can have a chance to learn about Jesus/YWVH/Allah/Buddha/Krishna/etc and be saved. - Specializedone, on 06/23/2008, -0/+7What a fitting name to go with such an upbeat post.
- oduska, on 06/24/2008, -0/+7Damn... all I wanted to do was have a reference to Total Recall!
Sheesh - plainOldFool, on 06/23/2008, -3/+10Why? I'm Catholic and am 100% open to the idea of life existing out in the cosmos, even right next store on Mars. As far as I am concerned, there is nothing about my faith that can exclude the belief in life out side of our realm. Sometimes I ponder if my God, a 'higher being from the heavens', IS an alien from a far more advanced race.
- s4g4n, on 06/23/2008, -6/+13I can't wait for next year's launch to mars, the Mars Science Laboratory will be faster than a rover and it will have lazer beams capable of meltin rocks n *****, even aliens! Its gonna be the first weapon sent to mars.
- Specializedone, on 06/23/2008, -2/+9You dont need other planets, just look at Michigan State and Rich Lenski's lab. One of the first hard evidence 20 year studies to prove (as if more proof were needed) that life evolves in response to it's environment.
- Andrwmorph, on 06/23/2008, -0/+7It was spelled correctly, he just omitted an apostrophe.
- H0ns, on 06/23/2008, -2/+8You won't get oxygen just simply melting the ice. You will get water or watervapor and that's still H²O.
- oduska, on 06/23/2008, -6/+12Well duh there's ice... we just need to melt it to get oxygen!
- drunkmonkey01, on 06/23/2008, -1/+7link to that old proof plz
-
Show 51 - 100 of 286 discussions
Browsing Digg on your phone just got easier with our enhancements to the 
© Digg Inc. 2009
— Content created and posted by Digg users is