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wonder what the nasa news conference about mars will be about .are we really all descended from quatermass's grasshoppers .:exit:
 
ah well looks like there might be water on mars ,water jim but not as we know it .

on a different note i thought about going to mecca once ,but being a bit mutt and jeff i can't hear them calling out the numbers properly ,the ma in law always used to win though :banghead:
 
the black fox said:
ah well looks like there might be water on mars ,water jim but not as we know it .

on a different note i thought about going to mecca once ,but being a bit mutt and jeff i can't hear them calling out the numbers properly ,the ma in law always used to win though :banghead:
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Jokes not allowed in this thread!
 
Ricardodaforce said:
Jokes not allowed in this thread!
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Err who is joking
1 water in the form of frozen ice has been found on Mars .
2 I once nearly went to the Mecca bingo
3 I really do suffer from high frequency hearing loss
4 my dearly departed MA in law used to win big on bingo

And finally I really couldn't give a toss about a disaster in Saudi Arabia something else will inevitably happen soon and in six months you will be scratching your head to recall this event .at least when the titanic sunk it was worth a few good movies ,this won't be
 
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the black fox said:
Err who is joking
1 water in the form of frozen ice has been found on Mars .
2 I once nearly went to the Mecca bingo
3 I really do suffer from high frequency hearing loss
4 my dearly departed MA in law used to win big on bingo

And finally I really couldn't give a toss about a disaster in Saudi Arabia something else will inevitably happen soon and in six months you will be scratching your head to recall this event .at least when the titanic sunk it was worth a few good movies ,this won't be
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You obviously didn't realise that I was joking.......
 
Water in the form of ice has been known about on Mars for decades.
You can see the ice caps yourself on the right night and a decent pair of bins.
Yesterday the announcement was regarding the existence of liquid water.
Possibly.
Maybe.
:-)
 
viv1969 said:
Water in the form of ice has been known about on Mars for decades.
You can see the ice caps yourself on the right night and a decent pair of bins.
Yesterday the announcement was regarding the existence of liquid water.
Possibly.
Maybe.
:)
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The ice caps are composed of carbon dioxide ice.
 
Ricardodaforce said:
The ice caps are composed of carbon dioxide ice.
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In the north cap that is right.
In the south, in 2002, it was discovered that the CO2 ice covers a layer of water ice.

Even if that hadn't been the case, yesterday's announcement was still only a possibly-maybe-could be one.
 
Liquid water! only a scientist could come up with that pretentious gem.

water = water
Frozen water = Ice
 
AHILL said:
Liquid water! only a scientist could come up with that pretentious gem.
water = water
Frozen water = Ice
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No, water = H2O, a compound which can exist in a number of physical states. Since the importance of the announcement related entirely to the physical state (the presence of the compound being already known), it was a useful clarification.
 
And the latest is that apparently its "saltly" how the hell do they know that?
 
Cobra said:
And the latest is that apparently its "saltly" how the hell do they know that?
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I guess it should read "salty" and they can deduce that from spectrometry.
 
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I very much doubt they're using "salty" to describe what we (as Joe Public) think of as salt water and are using the term to describe the water as containing dissolved salts in a much more general way. I did read which salts were thought to be involved but can't remember the technicalities!
 
Nod said:
I very much doubt they're using "salty" to describe what we (as Joe Public) think of as salt water and are using the term to describe the water as containing dissolved salts in a much more general way. I did read which salts were thought to be involved but can't remember the technicalities!
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Yes they are. "Salt" in its true chemistry definition, not specifically table salt. AHill will be most upset.
 
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Having disgraced this forum for some years now, I thought I had seen some mind blowing taking threads off topic. But, how the hell have you got from a stampede at a religeous festival to the alleged saltiness of alleged water on Mars...................:naughty:
 
fracster said:
Having disgraced this forum for some years now, I thought I had seen some mind blowing taking threads off topic. But, how the hell have you got from a stampede at a religeous festival to the alleged saltiness of alleged water on Mars...................:naughty:
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Its a bit like that game where you change one letter to form another word.
In this instance, though, you just change the subject mid thread, .......................
easy :D
 
fracster said:
Having disgraced this forum for some years now, I thought I had seen some mind blowing taking threads off topic. But, how the hell have you got from a stampede at a religeous festival to the alleged saltiness of alleged water on Mars...................:naughty:
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The original topic was starting to run a little thin on posters advertising their ignorance. Changing topics has opened it up to many more to embarrass themselves. TP is very democratic like that. :D
 
Anyone remember where it was that did fried and battered mars bars ,hopefully it was nowhere near a Mecca bingo or you would get crushed in the rush ,and afterwards you could go to the pub and get stoned ,there ya go thread back on track :ty::bat:
 
Llamaman said:
No, water = H2O, a compound which can exist in a number of physical states. Since the importance of the announcement related entirely to the physical state (the presence of the compound being already known), it was a useful clarification.
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Like I said. Pretentious...:rolleyes:
 
Llamaman said:
Yes they are. "Salt" in its true chemistry definition, not specifically table salt. AHill will be most upset.
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Too much salt is bad for you. I'm staying here.

Now if they find pepper...
 
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ianp5a said:
Too much salt is bad for you. I'm staying here.

Now if they find pepper...
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Still waiting for definitive proof lol ;)
 
When they announced that they had found 'clay' on Mars, I thought, hmm. I bet potters around the world are really excited.
 
Ah, but is it actually water that has been discovered on Mars?

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ianp5a said:
Now if they find pepper...
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Here she is :thumbs:

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She's looking worried, maybe she's just had a call from a certain politician?
 
until the mars rover digs up a dinosaur i just cant get that excited about puddles on mars. Ive probably got micro organisms in my toe cheese i havnt seen before, thats not making the news and im equally uninterested in them too.
 
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