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- HarryRag, on 09/26/2008, -5/+28I think you need to take this ***** up with someone at Digg, all these "***** MRBABYMAN!" comments are really annoying, especially if I find the article in question interesting (like I do in this instance).
- Unreal411, on 09/26/2008, -4/+23The further we learn about mars the less it makes this planet unique..
now that we know there are trillions of undiscovered planets out there it seems a near impossibility that Earth is the only one with life. - TnTBass, on 09/26/2008, -3/+19***** MrBabyMan gets you excited?
- Hetman, on 09/26/2008, -1/+8I agree with you 100%. Is it intelligent life would be a better question. It does seem intelligent does help you pass on your genes. I mean even if we look at monkeys and apes, it is their intelligent which has helped them stay alive for so long. So you would imagine that it is possible to have intelligent beings on other planets, yet it is a question I fear that will never be answered.
- roguewriter, on 09/26/2008, -0/+7You have got to be one of the most singularly stupid individuals I've seen post on Digg.
Please do the human race a favor and have yourself sterilized so that your genetic flaws aren't passed on. - TnTBass, on 09/26/2008, -0/+6"There are no planets that have been discovered outside this universe."
I guess I have to agree with you, since we haven't been able to actually record anything outside of our universe. Nor can I claim that anyone has detected a planet outside of our galaxy. However, we have detected planets outside of our solar system. - urinate, on 09/26/2008, -0/+5It's aawwwwwwrrrrright!
- matthewjhughes, on 09/26/2008, -4/+9This makes me so excited! I wish I was part of the Mars team.
- TnTBass, on 09/26/2008, -0/+4Who cares. All you need is a monolith, and within minutes you have a space faring civilization.
- diggydougie, on 09/26/2008, -1/+5How can there be a river without rain? Of course there was rain.
- FishHammer, on 09/26/2008, -0/+4Kelly - Mars expert
- Clbull, on 09/26/2008, -1/+4OH NOES ITS A MRBABYMAN SUBMISSION!!!11111
Seriously though, sure he somehow submits loads of frontpage articles and he MIGHT just be a bot/scripter but this is actually an interesting submission, so dugg for that - Anomaly100, on 09/26/2008, -0/+3For someone that rants on and on saying things like, "there ain't never been..." and my favorite "bang a broad," while at the same time feigning intelligence by speaking of the "weak minded," you are very condescending.
- elementop, on 09/26/2008, -0/+2Quote: And lack of gravity does not cause "atmosphere to get sucked off into space."
Chaoticfist's statement was *technically* inaccurate, as I understand (not being an astrophysicist), but was not entirely wrong. It's not that the atmosphere gets "sucked off into space", but, due to the lower escape velocity on a low-gravity planet, does more easily escape into space - Unreal411, on 09/26/2008, -1/+3http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extrasolar_planet
why don't you read.. - Clbull, on 09/26/2008, -0/+2So if this planet used to be more Earthlike, do you think in a billion or so years, Earth would basically be dried up like Mars is?
- thebaron2, on 09/26/2008, -0/+2"With all your billion dollar centillion light year telescopes you can't even find another planet outside our solar system, much less one with water."
That claim is demonstrably false.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extrasolar_planet#Not ...
There are at least 314 that have been confirmed, with many more on the waiting list.
http://exoplanet.eu/catalog.php - Chaoticfist, on 09/26/2008, -1/+3Or perhaps mars had a thicker atmosphere early in its history allowing for rain and storms and rivers. And because the planet is about a third of earth it did not have the gravity to hold all that atmosphere close to the planet. So the vacuum of space sucked it away slowly.
Even earth is slowly losing its atmosphere to space, every planet does, except maybe like Jupiter. Earths gases are also replenished from volcanoes and material that crashes into the earth. - o0joshua0o, on 09/26/2008, -0/+2I wonder if there was a whole thriving civilization there millions of years ago whose remains have long since crumbled to dust.
- sunnyoraish, on 09/27/2008, -0/+1But in all this....i wonder...
why should it be necessary for life to exist at all? - Idiggapony, on 09/26/2008, -0/+1Wow, linksus, that one's gonna hurt in the morning.
- FarOutGrace, on 09/27/2008, -0/+1"Get a life and try to bang a broad"?? - Dude!! Your intelligence is inspiring/sarc
- pinchduck, on 09/26/2008, -0/+1Think Mars is all red rocks and air locks? Think again.
- zantos420, on 09/26/2008, -0/+1instead of warring the world why don't we send a manned mission to mars. seriously.
- snached, on 09/26/2008, -0/+1hahahahahahahaha...... etc.
- RealmDown, on 09/26/2008, -1/+2How do you like your eggs ?
- jftitan, on 09/26/2008, -0/+1farscape...
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I know its my fantasy... I'm rolling with it. - linksus, on 09/26/2008, -0/+1His comment didnt mention the universe. *****
- rootsm3, on 09/26/2008, -0/+1Oh that means there must be aliens on Mars. Neato. When do we get to see em?
- Ziggy7273, on 09/26/2008, -0/+1It's possible. Even our civilization would be completely erased given a few million years or less.
- thebaron2, on 09/26/2008, -1/+2@Toecutter
"An ongoing debate is whether rain and snowmelt or groundwater may have played a bigger role in creating the valleys. The most recent findings presented at the European Planetary Science Congress in Muenster, Germany provide more evidence for the former."
Water could have come from the ground, or from the air (as either snow OR rain), or some combination of both (all three if you count snow and rain separately).
People who I'm guessing are much more qualified than you find this interesting, as well as at least 506 diggers as of this moment. If we want you deciding what's interesting for us we'll look for your news aggregation website. In the mean time, stop being a troll. - Clbull, on 09/26/2008, -0/+1Scrambled
- thebaron2, on 09/26/2008, -1/+2This isn't about the water itself - they KNOW there was water on Mars at this point.
This is about how the water got there, which has everything to do with the environment at the time. Did it rain? Did it snow? Did it have seasons like Earth and have both? Was it all groundwater without any form of precipitation at all?
These are important questions if we want to understand the planet's history. - Idiggapony, on 09/26/2008, -0/+1"Mars is essentially in the same orbit... Mars is somewhat the same distance from the Sun, which is very important. We have seen pictures where there are canals, we believe, and water. If there is water, that means there is oxygen. If oxygen, that means we can breathe."
Dan Quayle, 8/11/89 - datastorageguy, on 09/26/2008, -0/+1Must be awesome to actually have a burning desire to get to work in the morning.
- HarryRag, on 09/26/2008, -2/+3"it seems a near impossibility that Earth is the only one with life."
I used to think the same thing, but you have to understand that a planet like Earth is so perfect and stable, and while the odds of finding another planet like Earth is a total possibility (because we don't even know how big the universe is), it's still very unlikely and Earth is still very, very, very unique. - bicyclethief, on 09/26/2008, -2/+2And tomorrow's outlook is freezing with a slight cha... no, just freezing for the next thousand years.
- tao52nyc, on 09/26/2008, -0/+0Primates, as we've come to know them, have only been around 3 million years or so. And perhaps their larger brains did give them some advantage, as they had no advantages in terms of claws, teeth, or hide.
However, if you DO have such, you don't need a huge brain to survive. Sharks have been around since long before the dinosaurs died out, as have crocodiles, 100 million years or more. Primates have a long way to go to match that. - oaktreee, on 09/26/2008, -1/+1It's also a near impossibility that we're alive at all. What would lead you to believe that there's someone else out there? It seems impossible that there wouldn't be, given the expanse of the universe, but then again we have no idea. The rest of the universe could just as easily be non-living as it could be inhabited. I'd like to believe there's something else out there, but to jump to conclusions (the universe is HUGE so we CAN'T be alone) isn't very rational.
Not attacking, just stating my opinion. I think it's a 50/50 chance either way. We really have no idea. - rustintable, on 09/26/2008, -0/+0When science related articles pop up on digg the comments are always so stupid.
Must be the Americans.
All I have to say to you mental midgets is.
"Sedimentary rock = fossils *****" - alchoheal, on 09/26/2008, -0/+0Mars please be more interesting... or I'll move on to Neptune.
- CLAWC, on 09/27/2008, -1/+1*gasp!*
so what? - wassim2k, on 09/26/2008, -1/+1Ancient Mars? Modern Mars? I didn't know there were two Marses.
- mugupo, on 09/26/2008, -2/+1The more we look at Mars, the more will be Earth like, perhaps Mars was once had a civilization, but to pollution result into a dead planet.
- WeaponAlpha, on 09/26/2008, -6/+4Great, now we have to pack raincoats.
- MAARRS, on 09/26/2008, -5/+3Sure. They can't tell me if it's gonna rain tomorrow in NYC but I'm gonna trust it once rained on 'ancient' mars. Is there a sunny weekend coming up?
- kelly, on 09/26/2008, -5/+2The pre-existence of water on a planet is what creates atmosphere. Its also what helps it maintain its atmosphere. Mars would have had to be saturated with water first before it could have the atmosphere that would have allowed it to create the clouds that supposedly rained on its surface. There's no evidence for water saturation on the planet.
And lack of gravity does not cause "atmosphere to get sucked off into space." -
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