mmmmmmmm booze.....

farking eskimos.

I submitted this at around 11am. Time flys.

Does it count as an "ocean" if it's frozen solid. Shouldn't it just be a "huge chunk" instead?

mmmmmmmm vodka.....

Funny, this isn't a cosmiverse link.

Damn, that page isn't opening for me (at the moment.) I'll have a martoonie while I wait, though. Garcon!

Eh... it was fairly obvious from sat photos that there was water on mars at one time, and a lot of it. It would have been REALLY suprising if there wasn't any water at all.

However, the amount of water up there is so great that we might get to see a manned Mars mission taking place in the first half of this century- maybe sooner than you think. With all that water, rocket fuel could be manufactured onsite, and since water is the principle weight requirement for a long duration flight, you wouldn't have to take all that much. Just load up when you get there.

All in all, it's good news for the lab coat types.

this is bigger than...you name it

This is bigger than when those scientists discovered that David Ducoveny was a robot!

hehe, nice headline ;-)

Was this once an episode of the X Files???

Might not be bourbon, but there is alcohol out there...

I'm not sure that Martian Ice will do for my PanGalactic Gargle Blaster.....

Recipe:

Take the juice from one bottle of that Ol' Janx Spirit, it says.

Pour into it one measure of water from the seas of Santraginus V - Oh that Santraginean sea water, it says. Oh those Santraginean fish!!!

Allow three cubes of Arcturan Mega-gin to melt into the mixture (it must be properly iced or the benzine is lost).

Allow four litres of Fallian marsh gas to bubble through it, in memory of all those happy Hikers who have died of pleasure in the Marshes of Fallia.

Over the back of a silver spoon float a measure of Qualactin Hypermint extract, redolent of all the heady odours of the dark Qualactin Zones, subtle sweet and mystic.

Drop in the tooth of an Algolian Suntiger. Watch it dissolve, spreading the fires of the Algolian Suns deep into the heart of the drink.

Sprinkle Zamphuor.

Add an olive.

Drink ... but ... very carefully ...

(I need sleep...)

Might not be bourbon, but there is alcohol out there...

http://www.aoc.nrao.edu/pr/vinylalco.html

<deranged fundy rant>

This is all BS. There is no ice on Mars. If there was then God would have written about it in the bible (which is absolute truth).

</dreanged fundy rant>

Ok, we've learned that by observing Mars from space, we can discover stunning facts that change our entire understanding of the planet, and that robots crawling around on the surface poking at rocks was a stupid idea.

If we want more idiot rock-pokers up there, I suggest launching another US Senator over the age of 65, the members of NSync, and an annoying millionaire balloonist like Fossett.

Better Headline:

"NASA discovers huge deposits of ice on Mars, revitilizing the US Space Program for a new golden age. Americans demand to know how this increases their welfare checks."

Yeah, sending down a remote controlled car to survey like 1/1000000000000000000000000000000th of the planet's surface seems like a pretty huge waste of time. Anyways, if they wanted to find anything interesting (surface water, possibility of life) the only place to find it would be at the very bottom of one of those bigass chasms.

Suprising that they haven't even studied those areas in depth, even from orbit, yet.

I nominate Strom Thurmond to explore. He always knows what do to.

grrr, I keep getting this error

Throwing away unfetchable image URL: http://www.lordargent.com/fark/cosmiverse.gif (500: Can't connect to www.lordargent.com:80 (Bad hostname 'www.lordargent.com') )

Yet, I can copy and paste the url and have it work. Anyone having trouble viewing that image?

Um, hello? We've know about martian ice at the poles for some time. Spec analysis shows some, albeit a small amount of water in the atmosphere as well.

The mystery of martian ice is where it came from, is there more of it, and was there more in the past.

Lordargent, i can see it from your site, but not on this thread. Referer problem?

The bigger question is what if they do find life. Will they bring it back to inherit Earth and snuff out human kind? Hell yeah. That’s what happens when you screw with the vastness of space.

Polypuga, my site does nothing of the sort. I'm guessing it's a dns error between farks servers and mine. Images previously posted (like the pictures in my profile) work fine.

shanrick: I'm just trying to figure out what the problem is, it started about three or so days ago, can't post nothing, no photoshops, etc.

ROFL dis NOT cOMIsverSe, lol :0 :( :( :rofl

Polypuga: two things. First, a TON of the ice at the poles is dry ice (CO2), and second this is about subsurface aquifers, not the poles.

Just FYI.

Ok, DOES anyone else get some wacky REDSHERIFF.COM SPYWARE crap from this news article?

My Java console pops up saying something about redsheriff's privacy policy.

What's up with that shiat?

How is it that we never look at our own moon with such vim and vigor?

so what's the UN's view about the future water shortage now... we could always borrow a few cups from the martians

LMAO....unfetchable error...what the fark????

Nothing interesting on the moon. It's just a big chunk of rock. Well, some non-descript metals as well, but you get the idea. Mars has drinking water and rocket fuel we could use.

If it was possible to go to the moon,in '69, wouldn't we have exploited it to the fullest? Maybe by having some sort of base on the moon, we would have advanced ourselves in ways we can't imagine. I'm ready for a trip to the moon. So my point is mars sucks.

pffft... I demend justice, my title was a lot better!

Bauer,

Mars is infinitely more interesting that the moon - the moon has little to offer. What's this about "if it was possible?" 2 kinds of people think we didn't go to the moon: the mentally inept and the ignorant.

Water????? Phsahw..... I won't be impressed until they find BEER in great quantities beneath the surface of Mars.

Beer, beer, beer, tiddly beer, beer, beer...

Yes, please, may I have another?

Sorry.. my bad .. :(

Tairngire: Whooops, I always assumed that by "ice" it was implied to mean "solid H2O". Ahh, so this news is bigger than I thought.

Just a thought, but this could shed light on the martian glassy tubes that have provided fodder for Art Bellians while perplexing geologists. MetaResarch.org had a few points to say about the problems with the glassy tubes.

Or, even better, I'd KILL to see the headline, "Huge deposits of SEX found beneath the surface of Mars..." Now THAT would be worth a manned mission! Zubrin, sign me up!

Okay, I'm sorry, I'm actually drunk right now.

Damn. Who lives in New York City here and wants to hang out?

Beer. Did I say that I *really* like beer?

"- the moon has little to offer".....really....you've been there and all, checked it out you have, humm ? I would like to see a great big american flag from some technical marvel like the hubble, zero in on the moon, and show me the things we left behind. If it were possible ? Someone shut me up.


moon...that spells moon.

That's a lot of ASCII...

Bauer
www.badastronomy.com

Check out the link about dubunking the "no one really landed on the moon" bullshiat.

And it's a good site overall.

Alright, Justin Case, I'll bite. Is that supposed to be a tree? Maybe a mountain, sideways?

Give us a clue, at least.

Jebus, Bauer. You're a moon hoax believer aren't you? You dumb clod. Go here. It should help get rid of some of the dumber notions you have that we didn't go to the moon.

Also, saying that we should point the Hubble at the moon is just proof of how dumb you are. We can't point the hubble at the moon, because it would blind the telescope's optics.

Anyways, just wait until the Japanese send their probe up (2003?). They plan to take a picture of the Apollo 11 site.

Crap, my link didn't work. Go to www.badastronomy.com .

Beat you to it Tairngire.