I just read they believe they found some. But it is from remote sensing through the surface of the planet.
Wow
Wow
Wow
If true.
The ESA’s “Mars Express” satellite in orbit around Mars has discovered what the ESA believes to be an abundant supply of liquid water beneath the ice on the South Pole of the Planet which if confirmed to be true is a huge discovery.
The presence of liquid water being confirmed makes colonization at least on a small scale completely possible as it can be used to produce food, support daily water needs, and to produce fuel for both surface travel, planetary flight, and interplanetary flight.
It also gives future expeditions an ideal place to look for life.
Look for an even bigger push both in the US and abroad for an expedited “Race for Mars”.
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Cool.
Makes me wish I was 45 years younger and not crippled and maybe have a chance at getting in on that race.
I’d like to see the next generation as excited about space as my generation was when we were young.
I’d also love to see us start reaching out again because sooner or later if humanity is going to survive we’ll have to find another habitable planet and Mars would be a great stepping stone for developing the necessary tech and technical skills.
We’re never more than one asteroid away from the human race being potentially wiped out on this planet.
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Hopes have been dashed on this subject before, but this time it does look like the real deal.
With that amount of water you could be looking at the possibility of life on mars to boot.
Lets hope they don’t send socialists to colonize. They made that mistake with the Pilgrims and they nearly died from want. It wasn’t until they switched to capitalism they produced enough food to invite the Indians over for a feast.
I can see it now, everyone waiting for a check and then dying.
Socialism is what gets us there.
With as far as we have advanced with technology, it is amazing that we don’t have means to destroy an asteroid.
It’s not as easy to do as the movies would have you believe.
And since the odds are still very low that it will actually happen during the lifetime of any one generation, the impetus to develop the tech is never there.
True, I just read an article on NASA’s plan for destroying an asteroid.
If one comes our way, I suppose every country will do a mad scramble and hope for the best.
At least a big asteroid would kill most of us fairly quickly.
Worse would be a massive coronal mass ejection which could fry much of our tech and power grid…but leave most of us alive.
I think it was just recently there was one that if it had happened just days earlier would have hit us full on.
Yikes!
Oh yeah…Musk is a real socialist.
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So your unaware of the existence of NASA.
It’s pretty bad that you are so consumed with negative views that you have to inject them even to a simple thread about liquid water being discovered on another planet.
Very sad for you.
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His has a good point. Colonizing a planet is not just a technology issue. There is the social organization of the colony to consider. It is not like that is irrelevant.
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We do, just not the big one’s. The problem is with detecting them in time to intercept them or change their trajectory enough to eliminate the risk. Most of them are huge chunks of solid nickel, Iron, and other metals and by nuking them or hitting them with other explosives you actually risk turning one planet killer into many with unpredictable trajectories.
The further out we can intercept them they better our chances of finding a way to simply move them to a safer orbit, direct them into the sun or to planets like Jupiter and Saturn where they would simply be absorbed harmlessly.
A base on Mars could certainly be a huge help in that area for both detection and interception.
In the latter scenario humanity survives so no, the former certainly isn’t preferable unless you consider our species to be in need of extinction.
NASA is a public/private co venture.
Yikes is right. Ever read the book “Two Minutes After”? The U.S. gets hit by an EMP. The book is pretty realistic in how everything breaks down without electricity/electronics.
That book scared the poo out of me. My best friend and her husband read it and they kind of became mini-preppers.
So, I have to agree best to go fast via asteroid.
