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Edited by Sean Conrad:
9/30/2015 11:33:57 PM
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LIQUID WATER ON MARS!
NASA just announced they found liquid water on Mars! Before they found strong evidence of organic compounds and now they just found liquid water. This is as close to discovering life as we can get without actually discovering it! One step closer! This has to be one of the most exciting discoveries in space exploration in years. Great work NASA!
Edit: This also makes the possibility of a Mars colony a lot easier! One step closer from expanding from 1 planet to 2!
Edit: NASA believe the water is probably very salty. That's most likely the only way liquid water could exist.
[spoiler]That means we can actually say the forums are salty like the water on Mars!!![/spoiler]
Edit: I'm reading news about it as its coming out. Some scientists are think that terraforming Mars could be easier and faster if we have a source of liquid water! THIS IS HUGE!
Edit: More than 1100 comments! Very cool!
Our solar system is but a grain of sand in an endless sea of aw and wonder and yet we as humans have only begun to open the door to a universe filled with infinite possibilities. Being the most intelligent species in a solar system is like being the king of a chair. It means nothing, and yet it is everything we know.
[b][u]TL;DR[/u][/b]: NASA made a huge discovery by finding proof of liquid water on Mars which is a perfect environment for life.
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7 RepliesEvery time I hear about life or water elsewhere in our solar system, I laugh. We have been searching for decades trying to use liquid water as a basis for life. We have only 1 source for "life as we know it"; Earth. Just because almost every species on the planet uses liquid water, we think that life uses water. We are wrong. Life can come in many shapes, sizes, colors, and elemental makeups. Biology does not care about what we think we know. Ignoring other possibilities because they don't fit our idea of what constitutes life is only going to stunt our knowledge. -------------------------------------------------- Some fun examples of biology givings zero shits: Scientists have found a microbe on Earth that breathes through metal. That's right, breathes through metal. Platypus: a mammal which lays eggs, feeds it young milk without a nipple, has poisonous spurs on males, and has the sense of electrolocation. Parietal eyes. Parthenogenesis in vertebrates. ---------------------------------------------------- If we look for life forms that don't fit our criteria, we might be surprised at what we would have missed otherwise. For all we know Jupiter has life forms flying around in its upper layers that we can't see but since Europa has liquid water, it gets all the focus.
