Water Found in Mars?

[cycloneye]

http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2006/de ... efing.html

At 1 PM EST NASA will have a briefing where they will talk more about this important development.



Water in Mars



Look at what they say is a possible water area in Mars.

[TexasStooge]

Interesting!

From the photos, the water possibly found on Mars almost looked like oil.

[cycloneye]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16073785/

Very interesting information that NASA is revealing about this.Read about it at link.If water was found,then some kind of life would has to be there millons of years ago.I am one who thinks that we are not alone in the vast universe.

[JonathanBelles]

does anyone have the broadcast from 1pm. this is Remearkable!

[cycloneye]

does anyone have the broadcast from 1pm. this is Remearkable!

Here is more information that was said at the briefing.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/space/12/0 ... index.html

[Derek Ortt]

about life elsewhere in the universe

To say that life only exists on earth to me makes as much sense as saying Japan won WW2, IMO. A universe as large as the one we live on would almost certainly have some planet (and there are quadrillions of planets most likely (a quadrillion is 10^63). At least one additional one is bound to have life, and most likely there are many intelligent civilizations out there

[JonathanBelles]

my theroy is that all other planets and moons are at the state that earth was at billions of years ago and will eventually develop into life-supporting planets

[Regit]

about life elsewhere in the universe

To say that life only exists on earth to me makes as much sense as saying Japan won WW2, IMO. A universe as large as the one we live on would almost certainly have some planet (and there are quadrillions of planets most likely (a quadrillion is 10^63). At least one additional one is bound to have life, and most likely there are many intelligent civilizations out there

I agree (though what system are you using where a quadrillion is 10^63? ).

But there is almost certainly life (intelligent and otherwise) in the galaxy. It would be fascinating to make contact, though we probably never will, at least not for the next few centuries.

It would be interesting to know if intelligent civilization can ever get to the point of contact before its own advances cause it to implode.

[coriolis]

Is someone suggesting that intelligent life exists on earth? Oops, time to go watch Who Wants To Be a Millionaire.

[kevin]

about life elsewhere in the universe

To say that life only exists on earth to me makes as much sense as saying Japan won WW2, IMO. A universe as large as the one we live on would almost certainly have some planet (and there are quadrillions of planets most likely (a quadrillion is 10^63). At least one additional one is bound to have life, and most likely there are many intelligent civilizations out there

There aren't 10^63 anything in the cosmos. If that is a 1 followed by 63 zeros. Someone with a better physics background should correct me if I am wrong.

[JonathanBelles]

something i just thought of: how would they get water on the Moon?

[BEER980]

Well they have found what looks like sea shells on Mars so that would indicate some water was present in the past.

[JonathanBelles]

sea shells? that means there has been life. where did you get that information?

[Yarrah]

As long as there's no proof of extraterrestial life, saying that life only exist on this planet isn't nonsense. It's only the probability of extraterrestial life which is very high (that's why I think that one day we'll find it), but there's always the chance that we're the only one. We just need to find some proof.

[Derek Ortt]

I was using the Ortt systems of mathematics, called Orttculus

of course 10^63 is a Vingitillion (the old brain shut down completely)

[Derek Ortt]

if we make contact with an advanced civilization and conduct trading with them, the chances of us knowing would be somewhere between negative infinity and negative infinity cubed.

The military would probably ensure that, as advanced military technology may be traded. Now why broadcast that to your enemies?

[JonathanBelles]

the millitare would not let us know, they would say it is a matter of natoional security.

[BEER980]

sea shells? that means there has been life. where did you get that information?

There are many people investigating the pitures being sent back to NASA from the rovers. Tricks of light, photo anomilies, or the real deal, until we get people there we can't be certain. Try here for sea shells and other water type features to get you started. Need some really strange shapes, go here on Hoagland's site. I met this person online years ago in a chat area I think and started looking into the rover pictures. They still have the site up here. Drop me an IM if you want me to send a picture of one I found some strange objects in.

[Astro_man92]

I don't think that those are really sea shells they are just probably rocks. anyways if those really were sea shells then that would prove that there really was life on mars, and if would be the scientific find of the century.

This so called "discovery of water" is old news mars's ice caps are full with water. Othewise i guess they could be looking for traces that liquid water existed closer to the equator or marks left behind such as a riverbed or something.

my theroy is that all other planets and moons are at the state that earth was at billions of years ago and will eventually develop into life-supporting planets

That couldn't be true because then we wouldn't be looking for life on mars. Supposedly Mars and Venus have already supported life but are just too hostile of enviroments to do so today. Mars may have supported primitive life for about 500 million to a billion years but it cooled to fast and the life possibly completely died out. Venus may have also done so for about 500 million yers to about a billion years but it was to close to the sun and heated up rapidy. Today venus is actually hotter than mercury which is closer to the sun. (Venus= 900 F mercury= 540 F)

Interesting link