SFist: Mars Phoenix Lander Finds Water Ice

jimisf

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 14:34:07 -0800

Ice...water...life...organic matter...must be oil down there somewhere!! (You KNOW it's just a matter of time....)

icbalaam

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 11:35:36 -0800

I wish I had a robot that could find ice in my freezer.

wsanders

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 09:26:20 -0800

How many minutes to go before the Sierra Club sues to halt this rape of the Martian environment? Being your own damn ice, NASA!

jacksevanroo

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 09:13:48 -0800

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.

scopa

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 08:02:29 -0800

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.

jnice

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 06:47:55 -0800

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.

RobInSF

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 06:36:40 -0800

My, aren't we a testy bunch this morning. That heat is frying our little cerebellum.

cablecarsam

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 01:35:03 -0800

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!

KatyG

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 00:25:50 -0800

@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.

fizzandpop

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 00:23:27 -0800

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.

fizzandpop

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 00:15:57 -0800

This makes me want to hate everything and everyone, forever.

cablecarsam

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 23:22:20 -0800

Duh! what else would be up there... So now what? Still think this money should be spent on the starving and homeless!

mpantone

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 22:52:53 -0800

Hey, we're talking about Mars. The ice would be used for Martinis.

sfrealist

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 21:48:30 -0800

Ice, ice baby. KWillets, why would one pollute perfectly good scotch with ice?

atthebeach

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 21:24:15 -0800

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

Brock Keeling

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 20:47:00 -0800

that's coming. now back to the ice...

KatyG

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 20:44:25 -0800

Hey, how come LAist has "report this" links to flag offensive posts and we don't? Can't you trust us?

KWillets

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 20:01:35 -0800

That's great. How much Scotch does it have on board?