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October 03, 2015, 03:59:22 AM
#67
I think we can life in mars, but not now,
maybe 1000 year again Smiley
but we do not know when the end will come, the earth and everything can be destroyed without the opportunity to move to mars
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October 02, 2015, 11:15:01 PM
#66
well, if there IS water, and there IS life... even in bacteria form... DON'T BRING IT TO EARTH! there's no telling how it will react with our environment.


If there was life and they brought it back it would be contained. Probably kept in an environment close to where it came from. So they can study it without risking that life or us. But I don't think they would bring something back and not have an idea of what they are dealing with first.

If there is life, it is probably a mutated form of some kind of bacteria/virus we accidentally sent there with one of our landers.

Smiley

Could be. There is a limit to how clean the landers can be. They are trying to prevent contamination of areas of the planet that could have evidence of life. But maybe a few bugs already made it there. Or maybe life appeared on Mars first. And came to Earth billions of years ago on the many millions of tons of rocks that came from there. Wouldn't be as interesting as finding something new though. But we'll know for sure if they find something.
legendary
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October 02, 2015, 09:41:01 PM
#65
well, if there IS water, and there IS life... even in bacteria form... DON'T BRING IT TO EARTH! there's no telling how it will react with our environment.


If there was life and they brought it back it would be contained. Probably kept in an environment close to where it came from. So they can study it without risking that life or us. But I don't think they would bring something back and not have an idea of what they are dealing with first.

If there is life, it is probably a mutated form of some kind of bacteria/virus we accidentally sent there with one of our landers.

Smiley
legendary
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October 02, 2015, 09:36:56 PM
#64
well, if there IS water, and there IS life... even in bacteria form... DON'T BRING IT TO EARTH! there's no telling how it will react with our environment.


If there was life and they brought it back it would be contained. Probably kept in an environment close to where it came from. So they can study it without risking that life or us. But I don't think they would bring something back and not have an idea of what they are dealing with first.
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October 02, 2015, 09:05:15 PM
#63
well, if there IS water, and there IS life... even in bacteria form... DON'T BRING IT TO EARTH! there's no telling how it will react with our environment.
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October 02, 2015, 01:14:08 PM
#62
Just remember, we have found water on comets, as well.   Smiley

Yes Yes this is true.   

Also how do we know its really water.

Whos to say its not liquid nitrogen or something similar.  Not says exactly that but there are other liquids that it could possibly be.  Some do mimic water.  Especially if we can not get close enough to really find out.

Dunno just a thought.

Oh and Badeckr, guessing you like this section in the forum.   Always see you in it.

Oh Lenore, who are you? All these new names in the forum, and no way to know if somebody simply started a new handle, or if it really is someone new.

 Cheesy

Oh no I am really someone new.   Was a troll without a name for a long time and decided to finally join so I can post and participate.  New to Yobit as well.  Kinda around the same time this account was created.  But been on Polo for a while now.

No way to prove it unless I can post a join date on all my site I am on.   But then again that still doesn't prove anything now does it.

But yes I am a new name and person to this forum besides the trollin.
legendary
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October 02, 2015, 01:12:56 PM
#61
Just remember, we have found water on comets, as well.   Smiley

Yes Yes this is true.   

Also how do we know its really water.

Whos to say its not liquid nitrogen or something similar.  Not says exactly that but there are other liquids that it could possibly be.  Some do mimic water.  Especially if we can not get close enough to really find out.

Dunno just a thought.

Oh and Badeckr, guessing you like this section in the forum.   Always see you in it.

The instruments aren't perfect, but they certainly tell N from C or O.   

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronomical_spectroscopy#Complex_molecules
legendary
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October 02, 2015, 12:41:35 PM
#60
Just remember, we have found water on comets, as well.   Smiley

Yes Yes this is true.   

Also how do we know its really water.

Whos to say its not liquid nitrogen or something similar.  Not says exactly that but there are other liquids that it could possibly be.  Some do mimic water.  Especially if we can not get close enough to really find out.

Dunno just a thought.

Oh and Badeckr, guessing you like this section in the forum.   Always see you in it.

Oh Lenore, who are you? All these new names in the forum, and no way to know if somebody simply started a new handle, or if it really is someone new.

 Cheesy
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October 02, 2015, 11:19:34 AM
#59
Just remember, we have found water on comets, as well.   Smiley

Yes Yes this is true.   

Also how do we know its really water.

Whos to say its not liquid nitrogen or something similar.  Not says exactly that but there are other liquids that it could possibly be.  Some do mimic water.  Especially if we can not get close enough to really find out.

Dunno just a thought.

Oh and Badeckr, guessing you like this section in the forum.   Always see you in it.
legendary
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October 01, 2015, 08:09:05 PM
#58
You just never know.  Someone stated that if there is life there that it came from mars.   Yet no one really knows for sure.  Whos to say our life didnt come from there.

Under the surface who is to say there isn't so called people that live strictly underground. 
....
That would imply living strictly underground, with ZERO evidence of their existence above ground.  That seems unlikely.  A similar question would be something like "dolphins are intelligent, but there is no evidence of them "above ground."'

Mars is starting to shape up something like Arrakis, though...
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October 01, 2015, 06:25:03 PM
#57
Even though it has no impact on most of life on earth, and we can do nothing with this information in the next few decades, it's good to know that there is water on mars, apparently moving around or something. I hope that in about 100 years, we can stop waging a wasteful war (on militias halfway around the world that pose less threat to US citizens than the cartels), to maybe set up colonies in mars.
legendary
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October 01, 2015, 04:24:35 PM
#56
Can someone explain why this is a big deal? I thought we already knew water was on Mars?

We already knew it, this is true. But we didn't know that there was liquid water on Mars.

This isn't exactly true.  From water on the poles, etc we can infer a "water cycle" on the planet.  But that's inferred.  The absence of a water cycle though is unthinkable, given that sometimes the ground temperatures are 80F.

A water cycle would mean liquid water in the ground is brought to the surface or nearly so, then boils off, then drifts to the poles, falls as snow and accumulates on the ground.  But then the depths of the ice caps might be melting, and subterranean flows carry the (liquid) water back towards the equator.

I'm not seeing the whole cycle, frankly, but there must be a lot of people trying to figure it out right now.
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October 01, 2015, 04:13:13 PM
#55
Just remember, we have found water on comets, as well.   Smiley
legendary
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October 01, 2015, 03:26:04 PM
#54
You just never know. .....
Until we can get there and see no one will truly know fr sure.  Im up for a trip
The robots which are there can see more, longer, better than you or I.

They are doing a very nice job.
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October 01, 2015, 03:03:03 PM
#53
that there are someone or anyone can live in there?
lolz.. i dont think that this news is really a great progress for them.
and i hope they can do better than it.
I did not have time to pitch in here before. Are you saying that this discovery is not of importance? Actually this is very important. While this wouldn't dramatically change the way that we understand Mars today, this gives us new hopes that there is life on Mars today. Liquid water is important because of the potential for life. All life on Earth requires water to survive (or almost all). This also makes the search for life easier than previously though and it might push the agency towards more missions on Mars.

You just never know.  Someone stated that if there is life there that it came from mars.   Yet no one really knows for sure.  Whos to say our life didnt come from there.
Absence of evidence is evidence? One can look at it like that as well.
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October 01, 2015, 02:25:31 PM
#52
You just never know.  Someone stated that if there is life there that it came from mars.   Yet no one really knows for sure.  Whos to say our life didnt come from there.

Under the surface who is to say there isn't so called people that live strictly underground. 

We wont really know until we can get people on these planets to actually search and find out what it is people only have a theory about being there or also exactly how the atmosphere really is.

Until we can get there and see no one will truly know fr sure.  Im up for a trip
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October 01, 2015, 08:07:45 AM
#51
ok NASA found water in mars.
so now they are claiming that there is a big possiblity
that there are someone or anyone can live in there?
lolz.. i dont think that this news is really a great progress for them.
and i hope they can do better than it.
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October 01, 2015, 08:04:02 AM
#50
Can someone explain why this is a big deal? I thought we already knew water was on Mars?

We already knew it, this is true. But we didn't know that there was liquid water on Mars.
legendary
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October 01, 2015, 07:54:28 AM
#49
I'm confused by science words. Is there actually water or just evidence? Could I put it in the cup or no?
In at least one area on Mars, at a very limited time of the day and likely a limited time of the year, you could walk to one of the ravines showed in the picture, jump down in it, maybe dig a bit through cold, wet mud, and fill a cup with water. It wouldn't be something you could drink, no.

If you went too early you would find the ravine bottom hard icy mud.  If you went too late, a few hours after it was liquid, it might have all boiled off (if the temperature moved above about 10C) or it would have refrozen (if the temperature moved below 0C). 

But if you dug a well in that area, say two hundred meters down, it would always be liquid.  And it might possibly be clean water, if the sedimentary action is similar to here.   



I like science fiction.

You did quite a good job of writing in this sci-fi blurb. You might have a future in writing sci-fi.

 Cheesy
legendary
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September 30, 2015, 04:56:11 PM
#48
I'm confused by science words. Is there actually water or just evidence? Could I put it in the cup or no?
In at least one area on Mars, at a very limited time of the day and likely a limited time of the year, you could walk to one of the ravines showed in the picture, jump down in it, maybe dig a bit through cold, wet mud, and fill a cup with water. It wouldn't be something you could drink, no.

If you went too early you would find the ravine bottom hard icy mud.  If you went too late, a few hours after it was liquid, it might have all boiled off (if the temperature moved above about 10C) or it would have refrozen (if the temperature moved below 0C). 

But if you dug a well in that area, say two hundred meters down, it would always be liquid.  And it might possibly be clean water, if the sedimentary action is similar to here.   

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