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Offline trax1

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Water found on Mars
« on: July 31, 2008, 09:42:22 PM »
The Phoenix lander found water in the Mars north pole, it was found just below the permafrost. You can read more here:

http://www.comcast.net/articles/news-science/20080731/Phoenix.Mars/
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Re: Water found on Mars
« Reply #1 on: July 31, 2008, 10:01:07 PM »
Well.. We all but knew it was there :)  Now we need to go make something of it.
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Re: Water found on Mars
« Reply #2 on: July 31, 2008, 10:03:34 PM »
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Re: Water found on Mars
« Reply #3 on: July 31, 2008, 10:06:03 PM »
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Re: Water found on Mars
« Reply #4 on: July 31, 2008, 10:07:53 PM »
Well.. We all but knew it was there :)  Now we need to go make something of it.

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Re: Water found on Mars
« Reply #5 on: July 31, 2008, 10:12:46 PM »
Yeah no real surprise that water was there.  The real story though is that they found that the soil is full of nutrients and could actually support plant life.  Now just get the atmosphere in check and start planting.
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Re: Water found on Mars
« Reply #6 on: July 31, 2008, 10:15:19 PM »
The shame is that NASA will continue to spend every resource (men & money) on Mars instead of what it should be doing. I cant wait until private industries begin to do profit driven missions to space and we reap many many more benefits than NASA will ever give us. Making Mars suitable for humans will take 10,000 years.
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Re: Water found on Mars
« Reply #7 on: July 31, 2008, 10:22:54 PM »
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Re: Water found on Mars
« Reply #8 on: July 31, 2008, 10:24:18 PM »
Please do tell challenge. What should NASA be doing if not space exploration?
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Re: Water found on Mars
« Reply #9 on: July 31, 2008, 10:28:31 PM »
Please do tell challenge. What should NASA be doing if not space exploration?

Chalenge is in favor of more drilling.  He doesn't know where and he doesn't know when... And he obviously doesn't know what NASA's charter is if he makes stupid statements like he did.
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Re: Water found on Mars
« Reply #10 on: July 31, 2008, 10:37:07 PM »
Please do tell challenge. What should NASA be doing if not space exploration?

You know, space... profits... science... benefits... etc.  I'm not sure why you don't get it, it's pretty clear.
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Re: Water found on Mars
« Reply #11 on: July 31, 2008, 11:07:35 PM »
Helium-3 (He3) is worth $5.7 million/kilo

http://www.direct.ca/trinity/helium3.htm

Artemis project: http://www.asi.org/adb/02/09/he3-intro.html

From Space.com: http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/helium3_000630.html

Even ABC has reported on this Im surprised you missed it: http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200411/s1252715.htm

True we arent ready yet and it could take a few years but why waste money on a project that requires technology that we know will take one hundered centuries to accomplish when we already have an energy crisis today?

I also believe we should be sending probes to map out minerals and resources of the asteroid belt. Theres enough material there to produce ten earths or more worth of raw material.
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Re: Water found on Mars
« Reply #12 on: July 31, 2008, 11:15:22 PM »
Chalenge is in favor of more drilling.  He doesn't know where and he doesn't know when... And he obviously doesn't know what NASA's charter is if he makes stupid statements like he did.

NASA is controlled primarily by the purse strings of our government. Name one such entity that is both profitable and efficient.
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Re: Water found on Mars
« Reply #13 on: July 31, 2008, 11:17:28 PM »
The shame is that NASA will continue to spend every resource (men & money) on Mars instead of what it should be doing. I cant wait until private industries begin to do profit driven missions to space and we reap many many more benefits than NASA will ever give us. Making Mars suitable for humans will take 10,000 years.

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Re: Water found on Mars
« Reply #14 on: July 31, 2008, 11:52:08 PM »
The mars-jupiter belt is less than the moon in mass, I think (yep 4-5% of the Moon).. Not to say there isn't a huge amount of resources within jupiter's orbit..
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