NASA to Announce 'Major Science Finding' Regarding Mars on Monday

[DonDadda59]

Word through the grapevine is the discovery of liquid water.

http://www.discovery.com/dscovrd/space/our-favorite-martian-mysteries-discoveries-of-2015/?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=DiscoveryChannel

Finding this would be a lot more interesting:

http://animated-gifs.org/wp-content/themes/frugal/graphics/cat/marvin-the-martian/marvin-the-martian-007.gif

But water's cool too... I guess :ohwell:

[BurningHammer]

Either water or some kind of living beings, maybe. :confusedshrug:

[warriorfan]

It's gonna be something lame like proof that there used to be ice or some shit

[CavaliersFTW]

Liquid water has already sort of been discovered, areas where the surface strata of Mars appears wet has already indicated at times near-surface-ice melts and liquefies in the soil temporarily however any exposed water or rather moisture that appears on the surface goes almost straight to the form of a gas due to the low atmospheric pressure. So the only thing they could discover in terms of water that would be surprising would be if there is some sort of newly discovered underground reservoire or something. I don't think the atmospheric pressure would support bodies of liquid water on the surface.

But the purpose of the Mars Curiosity mission hasn't been about finding water, it's been more about finding the other mineral and chemical ingredients that are necessary for sustaining life. So, I'd imagine this is more related to finding an ingredient that was important to life that has not yet been found or known with certainty to exist or exist in significant abundance previously. Just my guess.

[CavaliersFTW]

It's gonna be something lame like proof that there used to be ice or some shit
Liquid water has already been proven in Mars ancient history.

Surface ice STILL exists. And surface moisture/temporarily wet surface strata still exists though due to low atmospheric pressure it evaporates almost immediately so no bodies of water on the surface are known to even be capable of existing.

So while you still might conclude w/e they mention is "lame" the examples you listed won't be them. Those things are already known.

[The Valley]

They discovered Cannabis on Mars.

[CavaliersFTW]

They discovered Cannabis on Mars.
:oldlol:

[andgar923]

Mannnn.... they'd never say they found any sort of life form.

That shit would be stopped in a second.

[CavaliersFTW]

Bigfoot sighting on Mars

[BasedTom]

They found Real14

[CavaliersFTW]

They found Real14
http://i.imgur.com/0QhQzm4.gif

[Sarcastic]

They found peanuts, and it will be now called Snickers.

[Nick Young]

https://raindr0ps0nr0ses.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/aliens-meme.jpg

[iamgine]

Why they gotta announce the announcement.

Can't they just announce the actual news "Hey btw we found a blue SUV on mars k thx bye."

[TheMan]

If they found any type of life form, even if it's primitive like at the celular level, that would be huge. We'd need to stamp out.

Next thing you know, this will happen
http://www.blowoutcards.com/forums/attachments/non-sports/142378d1367008706-mars-attacks-invasion-mars-attacks-invasion.jpg

[Draz]

If they found any type of life form, even if it's primitive like at the celular level, that would be huge. We'd need to stamp out.

Next thing you know, this will happen
http://www.blowoutcards.com/forums/attachments/non-sports/142378d1367008706-mars-attacks-invasion-mars-attacks-invasion.jpg
Loved that movie as a kid

[fiddy]

NASA is trolling as usual, they always make those "big" announcements

[imdaman99]

Found Matt Damon

[Hawker]

NASA is trolling as usual, they always make those "big" announcements

When you think about it, they are all pretty big announcements and accomplishments. Space exploration is no joke.

[CavaliersFTW]

A Michael Jordan flop has been discovered

[warriorfan]

nasa is a waste

[Hawker]

nasa is a waste

Absolutely not a waste but that's what someone with no science background would say.

[warriorfan]

Absolutely not a waste but that's what someone with no science background would say.

Cause you are a white person and would rather take pictures of space than feed dying people on earth

[Hawker]

Cause you are a white person and would rather take pictures of space than feed dying people on earth

Who is Neil Degrasse Tyson?

They do research that affects people's lives in a positive way. Also, NASA works with countries across the world for the ISS to work so it's a part of foreign diplomacy as well.

[warriorfan]

whatever

[Hawker]

whatever

He's not really black?

So you're against black guys becoming successful and well fed?

[warriorfan]

He's not really black?

So you're against black guys becoming successful and well fed?

I was saying that they spend a lot of money for a whole lot of nothing. Millions of people have starved to death that could of gotten food with the money spent by NASA.

[BasedTom]

I was saying that they spend a lot of money for a whole lot of nothing. Millions of people have starved to death that could of gotten food with the money spent by NASA.
it's could have you mong

[warriorfan]

it's could have you mong

how is your obsessive compulsive disorder treating you? :lol

[Doomsnite Danny]

this is a ploy for that matt damon movie. there is water there.

[Doomsnite Danny]

nasa is a waste
Americans will never stop. space exploration will never stop. Americans know they have already conquered their own planet.

[DonDadda59]

this is a ploy for that matt damon movie. there is water there.

That would be a clever marketing ploy. :lol

[bladefd]

I was saying that they spend a lot of money for a whole lot of nothing. Millions of people have starved to death that could of gotten food with the money spent by NASA.

Without NASA, there wouldn't be MRI machine or Xray machine. Do you have any idea the hundreds of millions of lives those 2 machines saved since the 60s?

Sure, you can feed 200 million people yearly with NASA's budget but I'd rather spend that money on programs that will bring us new groundbreaking technologies like xray machines that will save billions of lives over their lifetimes. We didn't even know that it was possible to create an xray machine until NASA ran experiments. NASA is involved in so much more than just taking pictures of the cosmos and space travel.
Here's more groundbreaking inventions: http://science.howstuffworks.com/innovation/inventions/top-5-nasa-inventions.htm

[warriorfan]

Without NASA, there wouldn't be MRI machine or Xray machine. Do you have any idea the hundreds of millions of lives those 2 machines saved since the 60s?

Sure, you can feed 200 million people yearly with NASA's budget but I'd rather spend that money on programs that will bring us new groundbreaking technologies like xray machines that will save billions of lives over their lifetimes. We didn't even know that it was possible to create an xray machine until NASA ran experiments. NASA is involved in so much more than just taking pictures of the cosmos and space travel.
Here's more groundbreaking inventions: http://science.howstuffworks.com/innovation/inventions/top-5-nasa-inventions.htm

I'm pretty sure we could of invented X ray machines with out wasting billions of dollars shooting rockets into space to take some photos.

[Derka]

I'm pretty sure we could of invented X ray machines with out wasting billions of dollars shooting rockets into space to take some photos.
No, we couldn't have.

[Gr]

No, we couldn't have.

I'm pretty sure the X ray machine was invented in Europe over 50 years before NASA even existed.

[DonD13]

the argument 'you can't do that because people are starving' is pointless


as for inventions, you could make the argument that the internet was invented as a byproduct of space exploration since DARPA was founded as an answer to the Sputnik crisis

[Hawker]

I was saying that they spend a lot of money for a whole lot of nothing. Millions of people have starved to death that could of gotten food with the money spent by NASA.

Yet you support a basketball team? Which contributes nothing?

[DonD13]

apparently in 2010 NASA had 0.52% of the FED budget

would be cool with me

[ImmortalNemesis]

An announcement for an announcement.

Thanks NASA.

[DonDadda59]

Doesn't have anything to do with Mars, but Space....


https://scontent-lga3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpf1/v/t1.0-0/s480x480/11953148_492994397528789_7384407903068283240_n.jpg ?oh=5f528750d315f0054e478893d2805ad0&oe=56A20F45

It doesn't get much more beautiful than this. Via Hubble: The cosmic "ice sculptures" of the Carina Nebula. Scientists are still trying to explain the beautiful spires.A nebula from Latin: "cloud"is an interstellar cloud of dust, hydrogen, helium and other ionized gases. Originally, nebula was a name for any diffuse astronomical object, including galaxies beyond the Milky Way.

[SugarHill]

They found Real14
:roll:

[Coach Eddie]

Word through the grapevine is the discovery of liquid water.

http://www.discovery.com/dscovrd/space/our-favorite-martian-mysteries-discoveries-of-2015/?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=DiscoveryChannel

Finding this would be a lot more interesting:

http://animated-gifs.org/wp-content/themes/frugal/graphics/cat/marvin-the-martian/marvin-the-martian-007.gif

But water's cool too... I guess :ohwell:

:applause:

[I<3NBA]

why are they more interested in searching for life than in actually trying to propagate life outside Earth?

instead of searching for evidence of life, they should just focus on finding out if we can terraform Mars and other planets.

we can worry about aliens later, when we have spread out all over the galaxy.

[macmac]

why are they more interested in searching for life than in actually trying to propagate life outside Earth?

instead of searching for evidence of life, they should just focus on finding out if we can terraform Mars and other planets.

we can worry about aliens later, when we have spread out all over the galaxy.

So you dont think finding water on Mars would be a step forward in it becoming a habitable planet?

[warriorfan]

Yet you support a basketball team? Which contributes nothing?

Choosing to follow a basketball team is not the same as forcing the US taxpayers to pay trillions of dollars to shoot some rockets into the air.

Major logic fail.

[fiddy]

When you think about it, they are all pretty big announcements and accomplishments. Space exploration is no joke.
I dont mean to belittle the work of those people, but is it really necessary to make announcement about a future announcement.

[warriorfan]

the argument 'you can't do that because people are starving' is pointless


as for inventions, you could make the argument that the internet was invented as a byproduct of space exploration since DARPA was founded as an answer to the Sputnik crisis

Yeah, bringing up the fact that millions of people are starving to death while we spend trillions of dollars shooting huge metal things into the sky is pointless.

:biggums:

Once again, it is possible to invent things like the Internet and X Ray machines without wasting trillions of dollars to take pictures of some stars.

You guys need to get out of LaLa land and get back down to earth. Pun intended.

[nathanjizzle]

these nerds are as bad as douchebags.

[bdreason]

Until we can at least travel at the speed of light, physical space exploration is a huge waste of resources.

What we need to do is increase funding for research of NEW scientific ideas. How long has it been since we've had a major breakthrough in physics? Instead, the research funding for Universities comes from Corporations, whose focus is on making more technological gadgets to sell to the masses.

[CavaliersFTW]

why are they more interested in searching for life than in actually trying to propagate life outside Earth?

instead of searching for evidence of life, they should just focus on finding out if we can terraform Mars and other planets.

we can worry about aliens later, when we have spread out all over the galaxy.
What do you think they're doing?

They're looking for ingredients essential to sustaining life. They're searching for that above all else. Not life itself. And looking for the ingredients is absolutely critical for 'planting a seed' of life or w/e you're talking about anyways.

You're not actually paying attention to their objectives and discoveries if you thought they were just out there trying to find life. That's like what their objectives were back in the 1970's they've narrowed their focus since then they ruled out life after putting rovers on the planet in the 1990's and shit you're a couple of decades out of sync I think :oldlol:

[Kungfro]

Choosing to follow a basketball team is not the same as forcing the US taxpayers to pay trillions of dollars to shoot some rockets into the air.

Major logic fail.
Where are you getting the idea that NASA spends trillions? Not even 1 trillion has been spent over it's entire lifespan.

[warriorfan]

Where are you getting the idea that NASA spends trillions? Not even 1 trillion has been spent over it's entire lifespan.

Excuse me, only 790 billion dollars have been wasted on NASA.

The point stays the same. The money wasted on NASA could of saved millions of lives.

Of course in NASA's logic

Taking pictures of stars light years away from earth > the value of millions of human lives

Makes sense.

[GIF REACTION]

warriorfan attends anti-NASA protests

[outbreak]

Excuse me, only 790 billion dollars have been wasted on NASA.

The point stays the same. The money wasted on NASA could of saved millions of lives.

Of course in NASA's logic

Taking pictures of stars light years away from earth > the value of millions of human lives

Makes sense.
You realise a lot of the tech they spend that research money ends up in the consumer market as well don't you?

By your logic we should cancel the every sports league in the world, every movie being made, every form of entertainment/art/research/science/religion. Anything that isn't going towards saving lives should be cancelled?\

How do you think we got to where we are today as a species?

[CavaliersFTW]

Excuse me, only 790 billion dollars have been wasted on NASA.

The point stays the same. The money wasted on NASA could of saved millions of lives.

Of course in NASA's logic

Taking pictures of stars light years away from earth > the value of millions of human lives

Makes sense.
Pipe down for 2 seconds you blithering idiot. All the digital age technology used in hospitals and our modern lives and shit originated from the great space-race the U.S. was involved with against the Soviets.

One of the worst things that could happen to our future would be to stop developing our technology to reach the frontiers of space. Nasa will always be on the frontier of science. Unless crybaby young adults like you that don't know how to make a living keep bitching because you haven't got a ****ing clue how NASA has affected your life.

You wouldn't be able to heat up your food without NASA. You wouldn't be able to post on the internet without NASA. Take the stick out your ass. Without a frontier to explore there will be no leaps and bounds in technology.

[HitandRun Reggie]

Yeah, bringing up the fact that millions of people are starving to death while we spend trillions of dollars shooting huge metal things into the sky is pointless.

:biggums:

Once again, it is possible to invent things like the Internet and X Ray machines without wasting trillions of dollars to take pictures of some stars.

You guys need to get out of LaLa land and get back down to earth. Pun intended.

There isn't anyone starving to death in the US unless they choose to. As far as other nations go, it's a waste of money to try and save those who are starving in masses unless it's combined with population control, which it isn't, so that's a waste of money. All it does is save some lives who will contribute to overpopulating an area even more with precious few resources, multiplying the problem we are trying to prevent.

[Hawker]

Choosing to follow a basketball team is not the same as forcing the US taxpayers to pay trillions of dollars to shoot some rockets into the air.

Major logic fail.
Just saying you need to stop acting like you're so concerned for starving people. Fake outrage is all it is.

[ThePhantomCreep]

the argument 'you can't do that because people are starving' is pointless


as for inventions, you could make the argument that the internet was invented as a byproduct of space exploration since DARPA was founded as an answer to the Sputnik crisis

There's a website showing the myriad of ways NASA technology has benefited society.

https://spinoff.nasa.gov/

Meanwhile, our stockpile of nukes cost $8 billion a year to just sit there, doing nothing. NASA doesn't hold a candle to the DoD in terms of frivolous spending.

[GIF REACTION]

warriorfan if you care about a brother starving then can you paypal me 5 bucks so i can buy a quarter pounder from McDonalds?

I'm ****ing starving

[niko]

Excuse me, only 790 billion dollars have been wasted on NASA.

The point stays the same. The money wasted on NASA could of saved millions of lives.

Of course in NASA's logic

Taking pictures of stars light years away from earth > the value of millions of human lives

Makes sense.

Do you have nice sneakers? Watch movies? Do ANYTHING above minimum sustinence? Why? People need food. Why are you wasting your resources you could be giving to poor people to eat?

[warriorfan]

:facepalm
Pipe down for 2 seconds you blithering idiot. All the digital age technology used in hospitals and our modern lives and shit originated from the great space-race the U.S. was involved with against the Soviets.

One of the worst things that could happen to our future would be to stop developing our technology to reach the frontiers of space. Nasa will always be on the frontier of science. Unless crybaby young adults like you that don't know how to make a living keep bitching because you haven't got a ****ing clue how NASA has affected your life.

You wouldn't be able to heat up your food without NASA. You wouldn't be able to post on the internet without NASA. Take the stick out your ass. Without a frontier to explore there will be no leaps and bounds in technology.

This post seriously made me burst into laughter.

You can still invent the Internet with out wasting billions of dollars to shoot rockets into space to take pictures

[warriorfan]

There isn't anyone starving to death in the US unless they choose to. As far as other nations go, it's a waste of money to try and save those who are starving in masses unless it's combined with population control, which it isn't, so that's a waste of money. All it does is save some lives who will contribute to overpopulating an area even more with precious few resources, multiplying the problem we are trying to prevent.

Yeah, these people are dying from starvation and lack of medicine but it's not our problem. Let's not help those people and in stead spend 780 billion dollars to shoot some metal into the air.

You sound like a pretty good person.

[warriorfan]

Just saying you need to stop acting like you're so concerned for starving people. Fake outrage is all it is.

Just because you can turn a blind eye to the death and suffering of millions of people, don't accuse me of the same. Stop projecting that everyone is as depraved as you are and get your priorities in line.

[GIF REACTION]

Can you send me 5 bucks bro

I'm droolin' for that double meat quarter pounder

[CavaliersFTW]

:facepalm

This post seriously made me burst into laughter.

You can still invent the Internet with out wasting billions of dollars to shoot rockets into space to take pictures
The internet is a byproduct of interest in developing other technologies.

Nobody thought "hey we need something called the internet!" The roots start as a tool to fill a different but very specific role. But without those roots and initial projects that made it's development necessary, it never exists.

Nasa doesn't need its funding cut. But you do. Time for your parents to kick your ass out and force you to actually think things through on your own. Because you don't seem capable in your current situation.

[CavaliersFTW]

Just because you can turn a blind eye to the death and suffering of millions of people, don't accuse me of the same. Stop projecting that everyone is as depraved as you are and get your priorities in line.
His priorities are in line. But so is his understanding of things pioneering scientific entities like NASA do for the world.

That's where you both differ.

[bladefd]

Choosing to follow a basketball team is not the same as forcing the US taxpayers to pay trillions of dollars to shoot some rockets into the air.

Major logic fail.

Trillions of dollars? More like half a penny off a dollar as Neil deGrasse Tyson often says. The total budget of NASA is $17.6 billion per year for the ENTIRE space program, EVERY scientist/engineer they pay and EVERY invention NASA makes.

Globally, 1 out of every 1,000 patents comes directly from NASA programs/scientists. It MORE than pays for itself.

Here's direct inventions by NASA that ended up in general consumer market:
http://www.design-laorosa.com/2012/11/26-nasa-inventions-that-we-take-for.html
Here's spin-offs where NASA technology was used by other companies in private+public sector:
https://spinoff.nasa.gov/Spinoff2006/Spinoff2008/pdf/timeline_08.pdf
Here's the entire list in text format:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_spin-off_technologies
Monetary benefits to economies of EVERY state through grants that NASA gave:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/66/NASA_dollars.jpg

I'm not saying those technologies wouldn't have been invented by somebody else if NASA didn't exist, but the fact is nobody did until NASA came along. People had time - Where were they???

Design, engineering, science, these are not things to frown upon because they are and will continue to ultimately save more people than your option of just feeding people with the $17 billion yearly. Period, end of story.

P.S. Munch on this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoxWy1v-EGU

[warriorfan]

The internet is a byproduct of interest in developing other technologies.

Nobody thought "hey we need something called the internet!" The roots start as a tool to fill a different but very specific role. But without those roots and initial projects that made it's development necessary, it never exists.

So the initial project that developed the Internet had to be space exploration?. This doesn't make sense. Instead of fruitless endeavors such as shooting metal into space, the funds could of been used for another more practical project.


Nasa doesn't need its funding cut. But you do. Time for your parents to kick your ass out and force you to actually think things through on your own. Because you don't seem capable in your current situation.

Woah there budaddii jr, you are on the verge of a meltdown.

[CavaliersFTW]

So the initial project that developed the Internet had to be space exploration?. This doesn't make sense. Instead of fruitless endeavors such as shooting metal into space, the funds could of been used for another more practical project.
Yes, it does make sense. It only doesn't make sense to you.

The second thing ONLY exists because the first thing.

You don't exist without your parents. You could only exist because of them. You would never exist with different parents. You can't live for an hour in your day to day life without using something that exists due to NASA. But go ahead, keep crying about it having it's funding cut and creating fantasies that identical technology 'would have been invented without' NASA. Just the ramblings of a madman :oldlol:

[warriorfan]

Yes, it does make sense. It only doesn't make sense to you.

The second thing ONLY exists because the first thing.

You don't exist without your parents. You could only exist because of them. You would never exist with different parents. You can't live for an hour in your day to day life without using something that exists due to NASA. But go ahead, keep crying about it having it's funding cut and creating fantasies that identical technology 'would have been invented without' NASA. Just the ramblings of a madman :oldlol:

Have you been drinking? You aren't being very coherent...

[Vaniiiia]

warriorfan doing it again, talking out of his ass about things he knows nothing about and getting murdered endlessly by people much smarter than him.

:roll:

[outbreak]

warriorfan may be one of the dumbest people I've ever seen posting here. Seriously.

[outbreak]

Yeah, these people are dying from starvation and lack of medicine but it's not our problem. Let's not help those people and in stead spend 780 billion dollars to shoot some metal into the air.

You sound like a pretty good person.

I don't think you realise how much modern tech comes from the space program. Most hospital equipment does, artificial limbs, modern water purification, most modern power supplies, GPS, satellite anything, modern tyres, LEDs, modern firefighting equipment, modern rubbers plastics and foam, modern techniques to keep food fresh, solar energy, modern lubricants the list goes on and on and on and on. Lots of things are small but they are key for the world we live in today.

[warriorfan]

I don't think you realise how much modern tech comes from the space program. Most hospital equipment does, artificial limbs, modern water purification, most modern power supplies, GPS, satellite anything, modern tyres, LEDs, modern firefighting equipment, modern rubbers plastics and foam, modern techniques to keep food fresh, solar energy, modern lubricants the list goes on and on and on and on. Lots of things are small but they are key for the world we live in today.

Yea, we can't invent better water purification with out the process of spending billions of dollars to take pictures of space.

If you're interested, I got a bridge to sell ya...

[Vaniiiia]

warriorfan may be one of the dumbest people I've ever seen posting here. Seriously.
He's a vortex of endless stupidity.

He loves the attention and has no self awareness so it creates pages of him getting beat to a pulp without him ever admitting defeat.

He possesses the worst qualities a human can possibly have. I've seen more charm from a dead flower, from a shitty diaper, from a ****ing inoperable tumor.

The world will be a better place when he goes, thass fosho.

[catch24]

So the initial project that developed the Internet had to be space exploration?. This doesn't make sense. Instead of fruitless endeavors such as shooting metal into space, the funds could of been used for another more practical project.

Dude wtf



warriorfan may be one of the dumbest people I've ever seen posting here. Seriously.

Pretty sure he's trolling. Don't think anybody seriously questions NASA and their motives, especially using the internet to do so. :oldlol:

[sundizz]

Warriorsfan you really must be on the low end of the intelligence scale when it comes to this. I'm saddened that you are a fellow Dubs fan.

Smart people gravitate toward prestigious jobs. For many, a life that allows them to conduct research and live out that sort of career is their dream. Not saving poor or hungry children in Africa. You can't attract the best young mind with a whack premise. Space exploration and the unknown is what attracts these brilliant scientists, engineers, etc.

You are hating on people for wanting more, when it is in fact human nature. Any reasonable person is empathetic of problems like starvation. However, smart people know that to solve those problems first you need an educated public that has the capacity to recognize, as a mass, how to demand progress. Thus, places like NASA create byproducts technologies that increase the standard of living and the general wellness of the population. This in turn, has a much strong direct and indirect relation to problems like starvation.

Don't be a dummy. Did you go watch Iron Man? Why...because it was fun. You could of easily donated that money to some starving kids in Africa.

[warriorfan]

Warriorsfan you really must be on the low end of the intelligence scale when it comes to this. I'm saddened that you are a fellow Dubs fan.

Smart people gravitate toward prestigious jobs. For many, a life that allows them to conduct research and live out that sort of career is their dream. Not saving poor or hungry children in Africa. You can't attract the best young mind with a whack premise. Space exploration and the unknown is what attracts these brilliant scientists, engineers, etc.

You are hating on people for wanting more, when it is in fact human nature. Any reasonable person is empathetic of problems like starvation. However, smart people know that to solve those problems first you need an educated public that has the capacity to recognize, as a mass, how to demand progress. Thus, places like NASA create byproducts technologies that increase the standard of living and the general wellness of the population. This in turn, has a much strong direct and indirect relation to problems like starvation.

Don't be a dummy. Did you go watch Iron Man? Why...because it was fun. You could of easily donated that money to some starving kids in Africa.

You just don't "get it".

You basically typed out a huge paragraph trying to justify the neglect of millions of suffering human lives in order to live out some stupid star trek fantasy.

You are a fundamentally awful human being.

[Hawker]

Yea, we can't invent better water purification with out the process of spending billions of dollars to take pictures of space.

If you're interested, I got a bridge to sell ya...

Do you know what serendipity means?

It's the act of discovering something by accident. There's no way of knowing whether any of those things would've been discovered if not by accident of NASA. It's hard to "discover" the internet when it hasn't been invented in the first place. It happens, like people said, as a by-product or serendipitously.

This is how penicillin was discovered. It is creating the atmosphere of discovery which is what NASA does that leads to such discoveries.

You are on no authority to say it would've been discovered another way as that is just conjecture and you're clearly not educated or experienced enough to justify it.

[warriorfan]

Do you know what serendipity means?

It's the act of discovering something by accident. There's no way of knowing whether any of those things would've been discovered if not by accident of NASA. It's hard to "discover" the internet when it hasn't been invented in the first place. It happens, like people said, as a by-product or serendipitously.

This is how penicillin was discovered. It is creating the atmosphere of discovery which is what NASA does that leads to such discoveries.

You are on no authority to say it would've been discovered another way as that is just conjecture and you're clearly not educated or experienced enough to justify it.

You know there are other atmospheres of discovery you can create that don't involve spending billions of dollars to shoot rockets into the air and take pictures of space.

[Hawker]

You know there are other atmospheres of discovery you can create that don't involve spending billions of dollars to shoot rockets into the air and take pictures of space.

Yet you can't name a single one.

You'd be calling that atmosphere a waste as well so what's the point?

[CavaliersFTW]

Thank you NASA:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_spin-off_technologies

:applause:

And all developed in just a few short decades for just half a penny for every dollar a citizen of the U.S. makes. And to think, literally none of it would exist without NASA.

[lil jahlil]

Thank you NASA:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_spin-off_technologies

:applause:

And all developed in just a few short decades for just half a penny for every dollar a citizen of the U.S. makes. And to think, literally none of it would exist without NASA.

I would like to thank them for the temper pedic foam.

[sundizz]

You just don't "get it".

You basically typed out a huge paragraph trying to justify the neglect of millions of suffering human lives in order to live out some stupid star trek fantasy.

You are a fundamentally awful human being.

People like you are why communism or a shared society would fail in America. Too much stupidity. Get out of my Bay. How you can live in Silicon Valley and not understand the necessity of having a place where brilliant people can do research together?

Be honest - do you donate money to charity? What % of your salary do you donate? Or, more likely, do you spend most of the money on yourself and your enjoyment?

[brownmamba00]

You just don't "get it".

You basically typed out a huge paragraph trying to justify the neglect of millions of suffering human lives in order to live out some stupid star trek fantasy.

You are a fundamentally awful human being.
I agree with this to some degree there is just way too much mula going around these space projects when it def could be spend on more pressing issues like the Somali situation, increasing poverty in the States or some other shit we don't have to deal with in our first world countries.

But it's not only the space money budget that's mindboggling...do you know how much money the US spends just so we can play world police?

every year the white house pays the israeli gov over 3 billion dollars...and god knows how much money they send over to the filthy al sauds.

[HitandRun Reggie]

I agree with this to some degree there is just way too much mula going around these space projects when it def could be spend on more pressing issues like the Somali situation, increasing poverty in the States or some other shit we don't have to deal with in our first world countries.

But it's not only the space money budget that's mindboggling...do you know how much money the US spends just so we can play world police?

every year the white house pays the israeli gov over 3 billion dollars...and god knows how much money they send over to the filthy al sauds.


If we aren't supposed to play world police then why would we get involved in Somalia or dealing with "shit" in 3rd world countries? Those people don't give a crap about us anyway, and any nation that doesn't put it's self interest as a priority, is doomed.

[Dresta]

This world police thing is a strange mentality:


“Sir, I am afraid, that, along with some most excellent attributes and qualities—the love of liberty, jury trial, the writ of habeas corpus, and all the blessings of free government we have derived from our Anglo-Saxon ancestors, we have got not a little of their John Bull, or rather John Bull-dog spirit—their readiness to fight for any body, and on any occasion. Sir, England has been for centuries the game-**** of Europe. It is impossible to specify the wars in which she has been engaged for contrary purposes ; and she will with great pleasure, see us take off her shoulders the labor of preserving the balance of power. We find her fighting, now for the Queen of Hungary—then for her inveterate foe, the King of Prussia—now at war for the restoration of the Bourbons—and now on the eve of war with them for the liberties of Spain.”


Sound a lot like America now tbh, and it's funny how happily Britain has unloaded this burden onto Americans and how willingly they took up the gauntlet. Time to stop interfering in things that are none of your business, and in parts of the world you're wholly ignorant of.

[Andrei89]

He's a vortex of endless stupidity.

He loves the attention and has no self awareness so it creates pages of him getting beat to a pulp without him ever admitting defeat.

He possesses the worst qualities a human can possibly have. I've seen more charm from a dead flower, from a shitty diaper, from a ****ing inoperable tumor.

The world will be a better place when he goes, thass fosho.

:lol :lol :lol :lol :lol

[ISHGoat]

If a known retard riles all you folks up and yall are writing paragraphs debating with him, then who are the REAL retards?

[Nets fan 93]

If anyone cares The news is that scientists found signs of liquid water on the surface of Mars.

[Nick Young]

Big ****ing deal, we have that shit on earth.

NASA:facepalm

[sdot_thadon]

Damn, so they discovered signs of the water they discovered traces of a few years ago? Ugh.

[Draz]

You guys were hyped up? I already knew it'll be evidence of water existence.

Lol.

[step_back]

They have confirmed that there is flowing water on Mars. Might not seem like a big deal to many, but this greatly increases the chance of Alien life forms. NASA may find life or traces of extinction there. Which is a huge discovery.

[UK2K]

They have confirmed that there is flowing water on Mars. Might not seem like a big deal to many, but this greatly increases the chance of Alien life forms. NASA may find life or traces of extinction there. Which is a huge discovery.

The chances of life once being on Mars has just jumped astronomically.

This is a huge, huge, deal.

Within a decade, we may find life outside of our planet.

[step_back]

The chances of life once being on Mars has just jumped astronomically.

This is a huge, huge, deal.

Within a decade, we may find life outside of our planet.

Exactly. This has been one of the big mysteries we've been asking ourselves for centuries and we might finally have the answer in our lifetimes and people's responses are so nonchalant. :rolleyes:

Useless celebrity gossip get's more interest than this. :banghead:

[CavaliersFTW]

Needs to be noted:

*Only during certain times of the year in certain spots when/where the planet is at it's absolute warmest.

*It's only liquid because it is incredibly briny (salty). Temperatures are not known to get warm enough for less salty water to be liquid at this time.

*Similar combinations of temperature and saltiness are not known to sustain life on earth.

*This is a verification of older data, these spots where it looked like flowing water were suspected to be such a few years ago. This announcement is the result of a closer look at those images and that data from a few years back.

But still a huge huge find.

[BasedTom]

can you drink it on tap?

[Patrick Chewing]

Big ****ing deal, we have that shit on earth.

NASA:facepalm


USA needs to colonize and claim that shit yo.

WE DA BESS

[warriorfan]

It's gonna be something lame like proof that there used to be ice or some shit

Looks like I was on my Nostradamus type shit. :applause:

[Meticode]

I think it's awesome this has been confirmed. We're so obsessed with finding life outside of earth that we look to the starts for planets similar to the earth, yet we have a planet right here in our own back yard that has potential to harbor life itself or could've harbored life.

Any who doens't think it's a big deal look too far ahead and pay too much attention to science fiction movies. We have to take baby steps in this journey to discovering the universe as well as discovering ourselves.

[Draz]

Imagine the crazy species and life forms. What their skeletal frames would look like.

[CavaliersFTW]

USA could destory Mars if it wanted to
If they ever start sending illegal alien immigrants over our borders by every right we should destroy them

[DonDadda59]

If they ever start sending illegal alien immigrants over our borders by every right we should destroy them

If we start sending people to Mars to steal their salty ass water, do you think the Martians would try to build a space wall and have us pay for it? :confusedshrug:

[CavaliersFTW]

If we start sending people to Mars to steal their salty ass water, do you think the Martians would try to build a space wall and have us pay for it? :confusedshrug:
We discovered that salty water, those savages weren't even using it it should be our water

[nightprowler10]

Damn. Mars has more water than California.

[Velocirap31]

Damn. Mars has more water than California.

:lol Probably true.

[Draz]

The saddest part about this, one day were going to run out of fresh water. We're going to start importing water from other planets.

[HitandRun Reggie]

The saddest part about this, one day were going to run out of fresh water. We're going to start importing water from other planets.

You know salt water can be desalinized right? Besides it would be much easier to move people to the water than the water to the people.

[Draz]

You know salt water can be desalinized right? Besides it would be much easier to move people to the water than the water to the people.
Btch were going to Mars for water

[bladefd]

If they ever start sending illegal alien immigrants over our borders by every right we should destroy them

Lets build a MASSIVE wall between Earth and Mars. Trump'd. :pimp:

[bladefd]

Damn. Mars has more water than California.

In fact, Mars might have more water than the entire Pacific ocean. Only problem is that most of it is frozen in Mars' ice-caps. As far as we know anyways - it's possible there might be underground reservoirs with a lot more liquid water that we don't know about yet. :confusedshrug:

[embersyc]

We should send all the recalled VWs there and warm that bitch up.

[ALBballer]

If we start sending people to Mars to steal their salty ass water, do you think the Martians would try to build a space wall and have us pay for it? :confusedshrug:

Look I personally know the Martians and they're a great species. Very vibrant group with hewwwwwge ambitions. But they have been killing us in intergalaxy water trade and we will make them pay for a wall to keep the Mexicans out of Mars.