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OMBG!
NASA has officially announced it: Mars once had standing liquid water. It was once habitable. This does NOT mean there WAS life on Mars, but it DOES mean it was POSSIBLE that there was life! The water was around long enough to 'soak the rocks' and form rare crystals that ONLY form in water. This was not flash floods like have been suggested in the past, this was standign water, like a lake or ocean. If liquid water existed, then most likely the atmosphere was more like Earth's, maybe even breathable (Paraphrased from the news report I was watching). And if that's true then it means Mars is large enough to keep a thicker atmosphere than it currently has, and it may be possible, someday, to terraform it and make it habitable for humans.
Isn't that cool?! Fan-Damn-Tastic even?! Okay, so I'm a geek, but Mars is an obsession of mine. And the possibility of it really having once been habitable (By human standards)... it's just wow...
All this just gives more of a reason that we NEED to put humans on Mars. Then we could study the rocks up close and personal, with only thing layers of latex between us and them. We'd need to keep the rocks in protective casing, with opens for glove covered hands, to reduce the risk of cross-contamination. We wouldn't want earth germs getting on the rocks and confuse us, and there is always a possible that if we did drilling for rock samples there could be living bacteria down there that could make us sick.
But of course, only ONE news station (MSNBC) had anything about it, and no one is talking about it now, because who cares that now we have proof that it was POSSIBLE for there to have been life on Mars? Who cares that the people who have been talking about water on Mars for YEARS, and been ridiculed for it, have been vindicated? Not like it finally shows that if we could have 2 habitable planet sin one solar system there could be billions of habitable planets in the universe, which means there could be millions of alien species in the universe (Taking into account that some worlds may have become uninhabitable like Mars)! Not like it's a MAJOR scientific discovery or anything!
UGH
I really think this news is more important than rehashing, AGAIN, that Kobe Bryant's accuser is going to testify. Or a special report about a football player retiring. Or again rehashing the Haiti stuff. Why not keep reporting on what no one else is reporting on?
Oh! More on MSNBC! NASA is now saying there was enough water to support life! Since GH is delayed for the above mentioned retiring football player, I think I'll leave it on MSNBC for a while... they seem to be the only people who realize this is major news.
Gonna check space.com for any other news... so probably more afterwards.
Later!
NASA has officially announced it: Mars once had standing liquid water. It was once habitable. This does NOT mean there WAS life on Mars, but it DOES mean it was POSSIBLE that there was life! The water was around long enough to 'soak the rocks' and form rare crystals that ONLY form in water. This was not flash floods like have been suggested in the past, this was standign water, like a lake or ocean. If liquid water existed, then most likely the atmosphere was more like Earth's, maybe even breathable (Paraphrased from the news report I was watching). And if that's true then it means Mars is large enough to keep a thicker atmosphere than it currently has, and it may be possible, someday, to terraform it and make it habitable for humans.
Isn't that cool?! Fan-Damn-Tastic even?! Okay, so I'm a geek, but Mars is an obsession of mine. And the possibility of it really having once been habitable (By human standards)... it's just wow...
All this just gives more of a reason that we NEED to put humans on Mars. Then we could study the rocks up close and personal, with only thing layers of latex between us and them. We'd need to keep the rocks in protective casing, with opens for glove covered hands, to reduce the risk of cross-contamination. We wouldn't want earth germs getting on the rocks and confuse us, and there is always a possible that if we did drilling for rock samples there could be living bacteria down there that could make us sick.
But of course, only ONE news station (MSNBC) had anything about it, and no one is talking about it now, because who cares that now we have proof that it was POSSIBLE for there to have been life on Mars? Who cares that the people who have been talking about water on Mars for YEARS, and been ridiculed for it, have been vindicated? Not like it finally shows that if we could have 2 habitable planet sin one solar system there could be billions of habitable planets in the universe, which means there could be millions of alien species in the universe (Taking into account that some worlds may have become uninhabitable like Mars)! Not like it's a MAJOR scientific discovery or anything!
UGH
I really think this news is more important than rehashing, AGAIN, that Kobe Bryant's accuser is going to testify. Or a special report about a football player retiring. Or again rehashing the Haiti stuff. Why not keep reporting on what no one else is reporting on?
Oh! More on MSNBC! NASA is now saying there was enough water to support life! Since GH is delayed for the above mentioned retiring football player, I think I'll leave it on MSNBC for a while... they seem to be the only people who realize this is major news.
Gonna check space.com for any other news... so probably more afterwards.
Later!
