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Our sister site LAist informs us, via the Mars Phoenix Lander's Twitter, that water ice has been found on the planet Mars today. At around 5:15 p.m., NASA folks exclaimed, "Are you ready to celebrate? Well, get ready: We have ICE!!!!! Yes, ICE, *WATER ICE* on Mars! w00t!!! Best day ever!!"
Martian discoveries soon to follow. Presumably. Read more about today's icy, outer space discovery here.
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That's great. How much Scotch does it have on board?
Hey, how come LAist has "report this" links to flag offensive posts and we don't? Can't you trust us?
that's coming. now back to the ice...
Twitter takes too long to open; try this if you're really interested in the (could be) water found by Mars mission:
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/phoenix/news/phoenix-20080619.html
Ice, ice baby.
KWillets, why would one pollute perfectly good scotch with ice?
Hey, we're talking about Mars. The ice would be used for Martinis.
Duh! what else would be up there... So now what?
Still think this money should be spent on the starving and homeless!
This makes me want to hate everything and everyone, forever.
A story about the wife of a crappy east coast college footbag (yes, that's how I spell footbag) team would be more interesting than the fact that there is frozen bullshit on the moon, or whatever it was you were writing about. Fuck, hasn't there been a murder, or a tree being sat in for no reason at all? Christ! I'm wearing odd socks today. That's more interesting than this bobbins. Ice, moon, ice moon, space, dorks fuck you all and your frozen... my mom's come home.
@cablecarsam: The Phoenix program (both landers) cost US taxpayers about $820 million dollars http://tinyurl.com/5ejk6c
The San Francisco 2007-2008 budget, by comparison, totals $6.1 billion http://tinyurl.com/64qhpu page 23. As a for instance, SF allocated $1,315,426,461 for community health services in this budget (pp 64-65), approx. $495,000,000 more than what NASA, a federally funded agency, spent on this mission (someone please check my numbers; it's been a long day!)
Going to Mars is a fucking bargain.
well maybe we can get some FRESH water from the Red Planet, not water with grungy sewer and oil spills in it. Maybe we should send Mr. Nuisance, his nasty budget and #2 bride to Mars with all the other newly betrothed b--- pilots jamming City Hall.
10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1- BLASTOFF!
My, aren't we a testy bunch this morning. That heat is frying our little cerebellum.
All good sfist commenters are acutely aware that we are ruining the planet we now live on; most of us realize that despite the willingness of some to live in trees and and allow cyclists to roll thru stop signs, we won't reverse course in time.
So our remaining choices are to all die out (or 99% of us, leaving post-apocalyptic plotlines aplenty) or take to the stars.
It might take a while, but let's have a little faith in science? It got us where we are today . . .
And yes, ice on Mars is important.
Im still not sold that this was H2O Ice. If it was, then that is a huge discovery... but lets wait until they get the stuff in the ovens and get an official chemical analysis.
If this was H2O, then that opens up all sorts of future possibilities. Pretty exciting.
Didn't we know this already? Arnold Schwarzenegger discovered a machine created by martians that melted the ice, releasing enough oxygen on Mars to make it habitable for humans. I saw a documentary on the subject -- it featured a woman with three tits.
How many minutes to go before the Sierra Club sues to halt this rape of the Martian environment? Being your own damn ice, NASA!
I wish I had a robot that could find ice in my freezer.
Ice...water...life...organic matter...must be oil down there somewhere!! (You KNOW it's just a matter of time....)