staxxy: (Cheerleader)
staxxy ([personal profile] staxxy) wrote2006-12-06 02:46 pm
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OoO!!

Flowing water on MARS!!!

It flows out of an underground spring and then freezes in the atmosphere.

WATER
on MARS!!!!


Spydrman just told me. It was in his wired news feed.

WOW!!!!

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,234830,00.html

[identity profile] vulture23.livejournal.com 2006-12-07 06:34 pm (UTC)(link)
It's worse than that, even. All signs of past standing water that we've seen on Mars are... um... not exactly friendly water. As in extremely acidic and extremely salty. But... you never really know what exolife might be able to adapt to.... :)

[identity profile] staxxy.livejournal.com 2006-12-07 06:45 pm (UTC)(link)
yeah, that is what I was thinking. I mean... it's not like life *has* to be carbon based even.

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[identity profile] bewtifulfreak.livejournal.com 2006-12-07 09:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Given the unhospitable environments life has managed to thrive in on this planet - like those hot underwater vents, for example - it does leave open at least some remote possibility!