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Aug 4 2011 07:04pm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-14408928

Striking new images from the mountains of Mars may be the best evidence yet of flowing, liquid water, an essential ingredient for life.

The findings, reported today in the journal Science, come from a joint US-Swiss study.

A sequence of images from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter show many long, dark "tendrils" a few metres wide.

They emerge between rocky outcrops and flow hundreds of metres down steep slopes towards the plains below.

They appear on hillsides warmed by the summer sun, flow around obstacles and sometimes split or merge, but when winter returns, the tendrils fade away.
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Aug 4 2011 07:08pm
If there is really liquid water on Mars it would be great for the Homo Sapien.
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Aug 4 2011 07:13pm
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Aug 4 2011 07:17pm
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If there is really liquid water on Mars it would be great for the Homo Sapien.


Are you suggesting we relegate the gays to Mars?
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Aug 4 2011 07:22pm
Quote (WidowMaKer_MK @ Aug 4 2011 09:13pm)
...try here


http://forums.d2jsp.org/forum.php?f=90


Trust me, this will have both political and especially religious implications.
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Aug 4 2011 07:51pm
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-14408928

Striking new images from the mountains of Mars may be the best evidence yet of flowing, liquid water, an essential ingredient for life.

The findings, reported today in the journal Science, come from a joint US-Swiss study.

A sequence of images from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter show many long, dark "tendrils" a few metres wide.

They emerge between rocky outcrops and flow hundreds of metres down steep slopes towards the plains below.

They appear on hillsides warmed by the summer sun, flow around obstacles and sometimes split or merge, but when winter returns, the tendrils fade away.


Obviously space squid living in the water
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Aug 4 2011 08:15pm
Quote (thundercock @ Aug 5 2011 11:17am)
Are you suggesting we relegate the gays to Mars?


Mass castration would be cheaper
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Aug 4 2011 08:19pm
Ooo! :D Seriously, this has the potential to be a really important find. Dibs on the water flowing just under the surface rather than above it, if it's flowing at all.

If there IS water on Mars, it'd make a possible colony there a lot more viable, for one. Of course, now we just have to figure out how to get there with our DNA intact. :P
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Aug 4 2011 08:44pm
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Ooo! :D Seriously, this has the potential to be a really important find. Dibs on the water flowing just under the surface rather than above it, if it's flowing at all.

If there IS water on Mars, it'd make a possible colony there a lot more viable, for one. Of course, now we just have to figure out how to get there with our DNA intact. :P


They could have people there now and a "colony" set up if they had funding like they used to.
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Aug 4 2011 08:47pm
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They could have people there now and a "colony" set up if they had funding like they used to.


By the 2070's it'll be Cowboy Bebop all over again.
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