Astronomy / Space Curiosity finds water on Mars

A Lien

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Good, so Curiosity found the water, but how about the cat? Fess up Curiosity, I know you did it!
 
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RMORTI

RMORTI
but only the poor with be extinct, the rich people will be on Mars........... There was a movie with a similar script, what was it 2012? 100,000 people got a seat on 9 arks at 1 Billion Euro's per seat.
 

Surfinjo

Surfinjo
CmdrJacks said:
People just do not seem to understand how important this stuff is, and NASA are partly responsible for failing to communicate this. As long as we remain on one planet our eggs are literally in one basket, a basket which is prone to death from the skies at regular intervals. It's all very short-sighted, profit wont help anyone when they're extinct.
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What do you mean, Death From The Skys?
 

Patrick_68000

Patrick_68000
Despite all this, Mars remains a land of desolation

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Enride

Enride
Surfinjo said:
Perhaps.

Though perhaps it has somewhat more to do with NASA's continuing efforts to make space seem interesting, sexy and open to possibilities so the US public will continue paying the vast sums needed to keep NASA types in well paid jobs.

The reality is, it's all very interesting but that's about it. There is no sign of any profit to be made. The first principal of modern capitalism is unsuccessful in the land which sees capitalism as as near to godliness as it's possible for a white guy to achieve.

For the rest of us, it's all just a lot of fun and non-stick frying pans.
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Science today, sadly, relies heavily on public relations.
People are no longer interested, completely indifferent to the what, how and why's of the universe and our own existence.
If Nasa and its counterparts across the world could catch a young generations interest, make them WANT to know the what, how and why's, then maybe we can see a future where this kind of research wont have to beg on their knees, all the while the public opinion dispises them for "wasting" taxpayers money.


Im literally disgusted when I find that almost all spontaneous discussions about physics and astronomy out "on the town" ends up with people having an indifferent and clueless attitude.
"Thats all just guesswork, they cant ever know that, theres no way to know this, think of what all that money could do better" and similar comments.
And more often then not I find that people simply dont believe that relativity is a fact, that evolution is proven, that we can tell what stars are made of and that the goddamn moonlanding is real...

Its scary and disgusting at the same time and to be honest, I have come to show little hopes for the future of this world.
And to see religion grow stronger across the world is just....the icing of the cake. The best way to ensure that knowledge will never come first.

Man, I need to get a cup of coffee and chill for a minute then head back into CQC.
 

Winterwalker

Winterwalker
Surfinjo said:
For the rest of us, it's all just a lot of fun and non-stick frying pans.
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.. plus, also from space programs .. improved hydroponic growing and balanced environmental control systems, data on ice caps, sea temps and pollution, robotic and computer techs, solar / fuel cell technologies, astro (as opposed to it's partner quantum) physics and relativity and an optimistic spirit of adventure, in exploring hostile environments.

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Sapyx

Sapyx
Back on-topic: the "water" they found has more in common with battery acid than anything we'd call "water". Perchlorates don't form naturally on Earth, but I deal with them in my lab at work. Nasty stuff, and you don't want to get it on you. A concentrated perchlorate solution kills pretty much any known Earth life, and would surely kill anything remotely resembling Earth life, no matter how "liquid" it is. It was the presence of perchlorates in the Martian soil that made the Viking team back in the 1970s decide that the ambiguous results from the onboard life-detectors must have been a false positive.
 
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