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u3pog
Ministerstvo na otbranata
Ore No More
#1 - 2015-09-28 20:30:10 UTC
We all knew it, but they confirmed it now: http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/sep/28/nasa-scientists-find-evidence-flowing-water-mars

Next step? Find life, maybe martians and "Independence day" - don't forget to plant a virus into the Mothership!

Good for them, maybe in 23 000 years they'll find New Eden! Big smile I'll wave o/

Who knows - we might find yellow submarines on Europa...
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Royal Amarr Institute
Amarr Empire
#2 - 2015-09-28 23:12:29 UTC
So The Martian has some major plot flaws?
u3pog
Ministerstvo na otbranata
Ore No More
#3 - 2015-09-29 18:51:24 UTC
Absolutely, unless NASA told Matt Damon about the water before he left for Mars. For his sake he better not find algae like Val Kilmer found that bug infestation. Mission to Mars wasn't bad too. We'll see about this one.

This is good news indeed, however it won't help us for the next century imo, because there is no way to shield those astronauts from the radiation. When they figure it out, even further missions will be possible, say like visiting Titan. I am not going to open up the Moon topic, it's just it seems so unlikely to land there even with nowadays technologies...
Jade Blackwind
#4 - 2015-09-30 08:55:02 UTC  |  Edited by: Jade Blackwind
The "water" in question is a very very salty perchlorate brine (essentialy poisonous) that flows once a year down the few select hills. Nothing to get too excited about, and probably wouldn't have any impact on the Martian unless he'd landed in the right time of the year in the right place.

The fact that Mars has huge amounts of water ice in the polar caps is known since long ago, and that ice is certainly of more importance than a few seasonal streams of toxic sludge that doesn't even freeze until like -30 Celsius.
Khergit Deserters
Crom's Angels
#5 - 2015-10-02 04:15:35 UTC
It is looking more and more like there is some forms of primitive lifeforms on Mars. Bacteria, etc. The kinds that are basically chemical reactions and could be dormant for millenia, or ride around on comets and survive. But the big thing is it seems there may have been bigger blossomings of life on Mars eons ago, and but environmental conditions changed along the way. Proto-amino acid chemical reactions and anaerobic frozen space things to ponder.

I wish now I'd studied either molecular biology, or neuroscience. Or just the physics/chemistry of how Earth animate/inanimate viruses work. They're all interconnected, in some way. I suppose understanding virus structures, the Earth cell scructrues and colonial organizations, the possible space cell structures, then neuroscience-- that would be sequence to follow.
Bagrat Skalski
Koinuun Kotei
#6 - 2015-10-02 17:37:04 UTC  |  Edited by: Bagrat Skalski
I think there was no single cell organisms. There could have been a period of evolution of RNA because this period is similar to earth one. After it the conditions on mars prohibited further evolution with formation of cells. If on any means archaea would have formed, It would have to harvest energy without photosynthesis and maybe below the surface of planet.

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Obadja
Perkone
Caldari State
#7 - 2015-10-09 11:56:59 UTC
1st: comet riding bacteria "yeehaw"

2nd: believing that the human race can achive on mars anything better than on earth is just an illusion, any infrastructure on mars would just be for prestige... or ultra rich people tourism

3rd: Water is not the only substance, that is needed for life...

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