Slog - Comments on Waterless World http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/waterless_world The more we explore Mars, the closer we get to a clear but disturbing picture of our future. Water was once widespread on Mars, data from a Nasa spacecraft shows, raising the prospect that the Red Planet could have supported life. Researchers found evidence of vast lakes, flowing rivers and deltas on early Mars, all of which were potential habitats for microbes. They also discovered that wet conditions probably persisted for a long time on the Red Planet.... Copyright 2008 Thu, 17 Jul 2008 12:12:19 -0800 Thu, 17 Jul 2008 23:19:50 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Super Jesse Charles, I know this is just another one of your pseudo-intellectual farts, but really. How does Mars having once had lakes and rivers (no mention of oceans) somehow make it similar to our case of melting ice caps. We're going to inundated with water, not the other way around. Now, there is speculation that mars lost it's atmosphere at one point, but there are numerous factors that in no way guarantee the same fate for us.

Also, the article makes absolutely NO MENTION of the earth suffering the same or similar fate, or any fate at all for that matter. Did you even read the article?

]]> Super Jesse http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/waterless_world#c1076406 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/waterless_world#c1076406 Science Thu, 17 Jul 2008 12:30:38 -0800 Comment by Vince I haven't seen anything that states there is no water on Mars. I have heard that water could be deep under the surface and even in the rocks themselves. There is some science that rocks on the moon that are heated to eight hundred degrees produce water. And I have seen pictures that show recent water like eruptions on mars.

]]> Vince http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/waterless_world#c1076430 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/waterless_world#c1076430 Science Thu, 17 Jul 2008 12:36:15 -0800 Comment by RonK, Seattle CM's planet is much smaller than ours; its gravity is too weak to retain an atmosphere beyond the nebulous brainfart.

]]> RonK, Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/waterless_world#c1076538 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/waterless_world#c1076538 Science Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:15:46 -0800 Comment by NapoleonXIV They blew it up! DAMN DIRTY APES!!!

]]> NapoleonXIV http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/waterless_world#c1076582 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/waterless_world#c1076582 Science Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:33:15 -0800 Comment by Wowza I'm just waiting to see how (preferably half-naked) Italian women somehow factor into all of this. Because you know they do.

]]> Wowza http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/waterless_world#c1076669 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/waterless_world#c1076669 Science Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:57:42 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle @5 from your lips to the FSM's noodly listening orbs ...

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/waterless_world#c1076693 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/waterless_world#c1076693 Science Thu, 17 Jul 2008 14:03:58 -0800 Comment by Andy Niable Silly scientists--the water obviously migrated here, to Earth! Look around! We have lots of it!

]]> Andy Niable http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/waterless_world#c1076718 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/waterless_world#c1076718 Science Thu, 17 Jul 2008 14:13:36 -0800 Comment by efnord Charles, c'mon.... look one planet *in* if you wanna see our runaway greenhouse future.

]]> efnord http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/waterless_world#c1076831 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/waterless_world#c1076831 Science Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:01:18 -0800 Comment by mackro mackro If there's any planet we'll resemble more in the far future, it will be Venus.

Venus makes even Mercury feel like a York Peppermint Patty.

]]> mackro mackro http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/waterless_world#c1076943 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/waterless_world#c1076943 Science Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:04:58 -0800 Comment by eclexia Mars used to be a beautiful place. It was destroyed by bad modern architecture.

]]> eclexia http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/waterless_world#c1077071 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/waterless_world#c1077071 Science Thu, 17 Jul 2008 17:30:59 -0800 Comment by MarkyMark Dimwit - get Jonathan Golob to explain why Mars couldn't hold its water, or a decent atmosphere.

]]> MarkyMark http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/waterless_world#c1077098 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/waterless_world#c1077098 Science Thu, 17 Jul 2008 17:50:18 -0800 Comment by raisedbywolves I guess that is why rural life is idiotic, and jungle life is more idiotic.

Right?

]]> raisedbywolves http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/waterless_world#c1077257 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/waterless_world#c1077257 Science Thu, 17 Jul 2008 23:19:50 -0800