Signs of liquid water on Mars

[DD_Bwest]

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/29/science/space/mars-life-liquid-water.html?smid=tw-bna&_r=1

"Despite its reputation as a forebodingly dusty, desolate and lifeless place, Mars seems to be a little bit wet even today.

Scientists reported on Monday definitive signs of liquid water on the surface of present-day Mars, a finding that will fuel speculation that life, if it ever arose there, could persist to now.

"This, I think, gives a focus of where we should look more closely," said Alfred S. McEwen, a professor of planetary geology at the University of Arizona and the principal investigator of images from a high-resolution camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter."

[Legend]

Hopefully the water is coming up from an aquifer. Brine is too salty for life usually but underground the conditions could be better.

Isn't it crazy to think the odds of finding life get higher and higher every year?

[kitler53]

mama!

Hopefully the water is coming up from an aquifer. Brine is too salty for life usually but underground the conditions could be better.

Isn't it crazy to think the odds of finding life get higher and higher every year?

on a related note,.. isn't it crazy to think the odds of dying to the zombie apocalypse gets higher and higher every year!

[Kerotan]

Hopefully the water is coming up from an aquifer. Brine is too salty for life usually but underground the conditions could be better.

Isn't it crazy to think the odds of finding life get higher and higher every year?

I think it's crazy that if Mars supports life then what are the chances the earth like planets support life.  

At this stage I'd say,  life is a given and how advanced is the question

[Xevross]

This is great news! As time goes on the chance of there being life even in our own solar system increases greatly. Its not going to be long before we find some fairly advanced life out there, somewhere.

[Legend]

mama!

on a related note,.. isn't it crazy to think the odds of dying to the zombie apocalypse gets higher and higher every year!

They actually decrease every year.

Zombies can't use technology. If a zombie outbreak happened 1,000 years ago, it'd be unstoppable. If it happened today, tanks and guns could keep a pretty large percentage of the planet safe. 100 years from now our AI overlords will just kill them for us.

[kitler53]

They actually decrease every year.

Zombies can't use technology. If a zombie outbreak happened 1,000 years ago, it'd be unstoppable. If it happened today, tanks and guns could keep a pretty large percentage of the planet safe. 100 years from now our AI overlords will just kill them for us.

tanks and guns don't protect you from a martian viral infection. 

[Legend]

tanks and guns don't protect you from a martian viral infection.  

Gas masks son.

[kitler53]

Gas masks son.

there aren't 8 billion gas masks readily available for the z-day and even if there were you have to change the filter, eat, and drink and that leaves you exposed.

[Legend]

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