Massive lake found on Mars. Full disclosure imminent.

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Not just any lake - a “liquid water” lake!

Sure, Jan.

Fake news!

Dibs on the Duck Boat franchise.

A job for the Space Force!

Italian scientists found it so you know it's a hoax

Finally a use for Elon Musk's submarine!

Massive lake found on Mars? I grok.

"To Serve Man" is a cookbook.

I hope human - like beings didn't destroy life on Mars a long time ago.

Can we name it after William McKinley?

I don’t want people coming back with creepy Martian life on their suits. Discuss.

We bought a zoo!

I refuse to react until Pluto regains its Planet status.

Even if it would cost a huge amount of money, I think we should go there and pollute it.

The unfortunate fact is any thoughts of manned missions to Mars are decades premature. Even if a water source is found the human risk and financial costs are absurdly high in compression to the excellent work done by unmanned orbital surveyors and roving robots.

I hope there are dinosaurs in the lake.

NYesterday, from my rooftop, with my telescope, I saw Venus, it’s a crescent at the time being. Also Jupiter, with four of its moons twinkling nearby. Also Saturn, with its rings in full display. Then the moon and it’s craters. .

It’s as if the moon is just such that it’s craters are out of the ability of human sight. Same with all of the above.

The Intl Space Station flies overhead tonight, too,

No Mars Seen.

Clouds permitting Mars should be visible downward from the moon.

Saw the ISS twice last night. And Mars is incredible right now.

If Pluto isn't allowed to be any more then a "dwarf planet" neither should Mars. It would barely just reach the north coast of Australia. Justice for Pluto.

There are other problems with Pluto. One of which is thus: all the planets formed in the same way, from a disk of crap flying around the forming sun, like a sombrero. This means all planets naturally orbit in the same plain (the “lid” of the sombrero), spinning in the same direction, relative to all the others.

Many of the planets had their “spin” altered by collisions with other objects when forming, but all are in the same plain. Pluto is not. It is the hipster duffus of objects and its orbit is tilted above and below the orbital plain, like a guy wearing his bowler at a jaunty angle rather than a proper one.

It’s also much more elliptical than the planetary orbits. Sometimes, it’s closer then Neptune, others, not. We can’t have that. Pluto must “go”! Banished!

These are Pluto people.

And another thing...

I think the planets, on balance, get larger as you move out from the sun for a reason. In a larger, outer radius, there is more junk to sweep-up, to form into a Planet. Pluto fails this test. He’s a flop as a Planet.

See? Pluto is just all fucked-up.

Scientists like to go meteor hunting in Antarctica, simply because the snow cover there makes blackened meteors easier to see.

[quote] A Martian meteorite is a rock that formed on the planet Mars and was then ejected from Mars by the impact of an asteroid or comet, and finally landed on the Earth. ...132 [meteorites have been] identified as Martian...These meteorites are thought to be from Mars because they have elemental and isotopic compositions that are similar to rocks and atmosphere gases analyzed by spacecraft on Mars.

And so, we may already have had stowaway microbes make the journey from Earth to Mars or Mars to Earth on meteors, but I think that takes tens of thousands to millions of years. It might be a million years since we last got a splash with a surviving Mars microbe.

It might be often enough, that the microbes are compatible enough, to eat each other. But infrequent enough that humans have never seen it happen. I don’t want to be eaten by a Martian microbe! If astronauts go there, Elon Musk should lead, and they can’t come back!

[reply 22] If Pluto isn't allowed to be any more then a "dwarf planet" neither should Mars. It would barely just reach the north coast of Australia. Justice for Pluto.

No Pluto No Justice!

LEAVE PLUTO ALONE

Pluto is a punk planet.

Not fond of Australia either.

Will China go there?

How long before nestle buy it?