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- RichyFreeway, on 08/02/2008, -1/+70No ***** I can't drink it, it's 35 million miles away.
- Lexor, on 08/01/2008, -4/+72This article draws some odd conclusions about future colonization. If scientists and engineers haven't factored-in water purification into their plans then we have much bigger problems, unless Mars astronauts feel like drinking their own pee over and over. The Earth's oceans aren't drinkable either. Oh, and the "molecular composition" of water is 2 parts hydrogen, 1 part oxygen. It's extracting that molecule from other stuff that gives you water.
- thesals, on 08/01/2008, -4/+66water purification isn't that complicated.... even an evaporative filtration system is very easy to build.... i think nasa can handle it
- dojonz, on 08/02/2008, -1/+53Martian Dew
- BlueSkyfish, on 08/02/2008, -2/+39Did anyone ever say it was drinkable? Most of Mars's atmosphere is carbon dioxide, of course it would be acidic.
- darkane, on 08/02/2008, -2/+25Don't waste your energy on logically explaining things to a Gawker site. They won't understand.
- uglybanana, on 08/02/2008, -1/+19Wait! You mean I COULDN'T dip my cup straight into some cool martian water and slake my rabid thirst after a hard space flight?
Well ***** me I'm shocked! - zeblith, on 08/02/2008, -2/+19Yeah, I feel like this article is completely missing the point of why we're looking for water on Mars. It isn't for colonization purposes, it's biological/ecological/archaeological. We're looking for evidence of what's happened on Mars and what might have been, not to figure out what Mars can do for us.
- inactive, on 08/02/2008, -3/+19It's still not as bad as the water down in Mexico
- BlueSkyfish, on 08/02/2008, -0/+13Carbon dioxide is an acidic oxide, which is a chemical that reacts with water to form an acid. In this case, its carbonic acid.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_dioxide
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acidic_oxide
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbonic_acid - t3rmv3locity, on 08/02/2008, -3/+15It seemed like the author didn't really back up his claims about the acidity and salinity. He stormed right out with the ideas but never backed them up, which means it could all be complete *****...Does digg have an extraterrestrial soil expert on call?
- darkane, on 08/02/2008, -3/+12Everyone that thinks they're cool for trying to keep this meme alive should die.
- Pleih, on 08/02/2008, -0/+9Heck, we can't even drink the water from the vast oceans.
- elithebest, on 08/01/2008, -13/+21Just like American tap water.
- uglybanana, on 08/02/2008, -0/+8***** you!
The end. - nstong, on 08/02/2008, -0/+7What the hell are you talking about... The theory of evolution has absolutely nothing to do with a planet's (or any environments) ability to sustain life. Species go extinct all the time to lots of reason.
- inactive, on 08/02/2008, -6/+11Way to downplay a great discovery. Seriously can people not be positive about anything anymore? What a tool...
- TheDreadDiggerD, on 08/02/2008, -1/+5Yes, signs taught me that an okay movie can be made a real stinker in the last half-hour.
- KingGorilla, on 08/02/2008, -0/+4I'll take the crab juice
- matthewaaron, on 08/02/2008, -0/+4They know that water is the precursor for life because every time we've found life on another planet water existed there first... ??? I mean, it makes sense, but who are we to say that some alien creature out there doesn't need water. Didn't Signs teach you guys anything?
- benitojuarez, on 08/02/2008, -4/+7you live in "terra belle" georgia or somethin? Tap waters damn good here.
- Aethirig, on 08/02/2008, -0/+3While I salute the NASA team, we're still running through the "it isn't as bad as (location X) tapwater" jokes yet.
Personally, my tapwater glows. Let's see Phoenix sniff that! :) - opticalnoise, on 08/02/2008, -2/+5Go live in China for a couple weeks buddy. American tap water is ***** delicious compared to that *****.
- fas2, on 08/02/2008, -1/+4Even earth water is deadly when distilled.
- inactive, on 08/02/2008, -0/+3H2O + CO2 = Soda water AKA carbonic acid AKA the main ingredient of about every fizzy drink on the market.
- starmanjones, on 08/04/2008, -0/+2it allows for the possibility that life that we would recognize as life evolved on mars. there are lots of possibilities for life we only know of life that needs water.
- mutesounds, on 08/02/2008, -0/+2So if they do ever set up colonies, desalinate and produce potable water, could you imagine being the first human to ever drink alien water? Holy ***** what an honor and feeling that must be.
- ErrorLoading, on 08/01/2008, -3/+5No, god put it there to test your faith.
- borez, on 08/02/2008, -1/+3That's my Martian Bottling Company idea right out of the window then.
- sarchosis, on 08/02/2008, -3/+5I can imagine a time when we'll remember things phrased like "the possibility of life on Mars" much the same as "Alaska and Hawaii one day joining the Union".
- HorseloverFat8, on 08/02/2008, -0/+2This article is stupid.
You can't drink the vast majority of our water without desalinating it. - smackydoodle, on 08/02/2008, -0/+2That doesn't even make sense.
- fwertz, on 08/02/2008, -0/+2Ok, how about the vasts amount of money the French are going to make marketing Martian Water to us Americans? "Olympus Mons Springs"
- encore0518, on 08/02/2008, -0/+2The best thing to do is analyze it on Mars rather than bringing it back to Earth considering there is always a possibility of it having some sort of intergalactic disease, which could possibly endanger many lives.
- lazlonger, on 08/02/2008, -0/+2why is this in "images"? do we now put articles in the category where we can trick out the most diggs, regardless of actual content? I mean, it does have a pic, but nearly every article does....so again you are always trying to game the system for personal benefit, OP01.
- nstong, on 08/02/2008, -0/+2As a biologist its really presumptive to assume that because we can't drink it, it can't sustain life.
- coolgeek61813, on 08/02/2008, -0/+2I don't think this guy realizes that when water freezes it expels all of the devolved salts that why sea ice is fresh even thought it was formed from sea water.
- Mark2600, on 08/02/2008, -0/+2We..come..in..pe...
- Yeyui, on 08/02/2008, -1/+3That is missing the point. Colonizing the Sahara or Oceans (or Alaska or Siberia or Montana or that empty plot of land down the street from you) will raise the population cap, but it does not:
1) solve the problem of all of our "eggs" being "in one basket"
2) develop our ability to colonize other worlds
3) inspire the nation/humanity.
Points 1 and 2 are vital to the survival of the species With all humans on earth or in low earth orbit, we are vulnerable to complete extinction from various sources. Having self-sufficient off-world human settlements on other worlds or in space arks greatly reduces that risk. We are tremendously far achieving that, but we must start somewhere eventually, or live with that increased risk until we are eliminated. Point 3 is a short-term and more narrow-sighted goal. Massive, inspiring cooperative projects (like the Apollo program) can create a positive nationalism, improve generally happiness, and stimulate the economy and new technologies. - starmanjones, on 08/04/2008, -0/+1nobody is abandoning ship. in fact, just the opposite. we consider ourselves the only true environmentalists. the question is what is wrong with you? humans and our technology are terra forming earth and we don't know what the hell we're doing...
if you love earth and its life then you will join us in taking the dead stuff and turning it into places life can take root.
*****. - fxu1989, on 08/02/2008, -0/+1Well, maybe the Martian aliens have developed a body resistance to this acidic water.
You are an undeveloped being that can't drink acidic water. Ha Ha! - joeanon, on 08/02/2008, -0/+1The importance of water on Mars as a human resource is mostly that of fuel, not drinking water. It's stored hydrogen.
The importance of water in general is that acid and salty or not, there are great prospects for life and current state of the water may or may not reflect it's state millions or billions of years ago when it's ocean/giant lake flowed.
At this point it's almost purely a way to see if life existed on other plants. Drinking water is not the point at all. We have 20+ years before we honestly have the technology to setup anything useful on Mars beside unmanned missions. Visiting will cost billions and likely accomplish very little. We should wait until it's more cost effective... Mars will still be there and probably virtually unchanged in 20-50 years. We are rushing to find purpose for our economy, not because of any rational fiscal return on our Mars adventures. - mcclaytonrolls, on 08/13/2008, -0/+1***** mars bitches, we need to stop spending money on that stupid ***** and find some alternative fuels that are cheap and work!
- styphoto, on 08/02/2008, -0/+1You see, imagine I have this reeeeally long straw that stretches all the way over to your Marswater...
I DRINK YOUR MARSWATER BITCH!. - starmanjones, on 08/04/2008, -0/+1so heres the deal. all these "good people" that want humans to remain on earth and keep screwing up the only living planet we know of and leave all that dead rock and other debris alone so we don't screw it up get left behind... or maybe better yet... sent first like the canary in the cage because they really aren't equipped to live past this century.
- inactive, on 08/02/2008, -0/+1Acidic? As BMOC pointed out, it would be acidic due to the heavily CO2 atmosphere. H2O + CO2 = Carbonic acid = soda water = the main ingredient in just about every fizzy thing we drink.
Except for Guinness from a nitrogen tap....mmmm...
I doubt that the atmosphere on Mars has enough pressure to drive significant amounts of CO2 into the water. - compsciguy, on 08/02/2008, -1/+2lol @ sucking the acid out of the water
- starmanjones, on 08/04/2008, -0/+1otherwise known as coke.
- warp25, on 08/02/2008, -2/+3Colonising Mars? You must be kidding. Not in this lifetime. It would be cheaper to colonise the Sahara Desert first. At least you have a breathable atmosphere and you can pipe the water from somewhere. Think of the billions/trillions of $$$$ it would take to colonise Mars or the moon at that. It would be SO much cheaper to colonise the ocean even before Mars or the moon!
You know it's true when you think about it.
Ah well, gonna get dugg down by the space colonisation fanboys. - IamKrAzE, on 08/05/2008, -0/+1quick somone post the picture of darth vader with the britta filter!
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