Morgan BellBuried glaciers found on Mars!
December 9th 2008 21:03
I got a little excited a month ago, when they announced that it was snowing on Mars. A litlte bit of snow, evaporating before it hit the ground - still, it was water, and that's what we need for a long, tall drink of extraterrestrial life.
Well, NASA has blown my mind right open, like a blasting cap opening a dented can of baked beans: massive buried glaciers detected on Mars!
We're taking giant glaciers, enough for an entire civilization of frozen Martians to use as the thirst quenching sports drink of Martian life.
Even better, if Earthlings ever decide to leave this popsicle stand, Mars can support a colonization effort with these glaciers. Ah, the taste of Mars!
Then, inevitably, come the bubble domes and seedy alien bars, with triple-breasted alien whores and a desperate need to start the reactors.
Ok, ok, I'm getting ahead of myself, there.
But it does mean that a shuttle can head over to Mars, eventually, without needing to fill the entire cargo hold with Tetra paks of Grape Drink.
Mmmm, water, sugar and purple. Bring the sugar and purple without on the way up, and Mars has all the water you need to get this party started on a Saturday night.
Well, NASA has blown my mind right open, like a blasting cap opening a dented can of baked beans: massive buried glaciers detected on Mars!
"Scientists analyzed data from the spacecraft's ground-penetrating radar and report in the Nov. 21 issue of the journal Science that buried glaciers extend for dozens of miles from the edges of mountains or cliffs. A layer of rocky debris blanketing the ice may have preserved the underground glaciers as remnants from an ice sheet that covered middle latitudes during a past ice age. This discovery is similar to massive ice glaciers that have been detected under rocky coverings in Antarctica."
We're taking giant glaciers, enough for an entire civilization of frozen Martians to use as the thirst quenching sports drink of Martian life.
Even better, if Earthlings ever decide to leave this popsicle stand, Mars can support a colonization effort with these glaciers. Ah, the taste of Mars!
Then, inevitably, come the bubble domes and seedy alien bars, with triple-breasted alien whores and a desperate need to start the reactors.
Ok, ok, I'm getting ahead of myself, there.
But it does mean that a shuttle can head over to Mars, eventually, without needing to fill the entire cargo hold with Tetra paks of Grape Drink.
Mmmm, water, sugar and purple. Bring the sugar and purple without on the way up, and Mars has all the water you need to get this party started on a Saturday night.
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Comment by Movie Mall
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The Invisible Sky
Let's drink to that!
Comment by Mountain Fog
"where there is water, there is life"..
just how sophisticated it is, we will find out in due course...if NASA allows us to know!
cheers
fog