Liquid saline water imaged on Mars Phoenix lander.

[dennilfloss]

http://www.astrobio.net/news/m...thread&order=0&thold=0

This opens up a lot of possibilities.

 

[leftyman]

MARTIANS!!11!

 

[spidey07]

So looney toons really did have it right? Just add a drop of water to the martian seeds and out pops a big green alien?

martians?

 

[sandorski]

Herpes?

 

[leftyman]

Originally posted by: spidey07
So looney toons really did have it right? Just add a drop of water to the martian seeds and out pops a big green alien?

martians?

that little guy in the armour and the deathray gun :thumbsup:

 

[MoPHo]

So if there's water up there, what's stopping life from growing? I mean, it's ridiculously cold but over billions of years shouldn't life have developed and adapted to such conditions?

 

[dennilfloss]

There's more than just the cold. Maybe it adapted by going underground.

 

[uhohs]

maybe it adapted by diaf.

 

[Chiropteran]

Liquid saline? Proof not only that there are martians, but proof that they wear contact lenses!

 

[So]

Originally posted by: MoPHo
So if there's water up there, what's stopping life from growing? I mean, it's ridiculously cold but over billions of years shouldn't life have developed and adapted to such conditions?

Not necessarily. We don't know the exact conditions required to kickstart life. That said, it does make it a lot more possible, which is exactly why we have probes out there looking

 

[sandorski]

Originally posted by: Chiropteran
Liquid saline? Proof not only that there are martians, but proof that they wear contact lenses!

:laugh:

 

[conehead433]

First established municipality on Mars - New Salt Lake City!

 

[MovingTarget]

Call me when they find brine shrimp.

😛

Seriously, this is awesome!

 

[Gothgar]

Originally posted by: leftyman

Originally posted by: spidey07
So looney toons really did have it right? Just add a drop of water to the martian seeds and out pops a big green alien?

martians?

that little guy in the armour and the deathray gun :thumbsup:

isn't that like.... marvin the martian or something?

edit : yep

 

[nerp]

Originally posted by: MoPHo
So if there's water up there, what's stopping life from growing? I mean, it's ridiculously cold but over billions of years shouldn't life have developed and adapted to such conditions?

We don't know what causes life to "appear". We know planet earth was once scattered matter that coalesced into a molten ball that slowly cooled over billions of years. We don't know how life appeared on the planet once its formation had settled.