Letting the days go by/water flowing underground
Into the blue again/in the silent water
Under the rocks and stones/there is water underground.
Having water on an extraterrestrial world or moon is a fantastic and wonderful bounty. First,you've got water to drink (If it proves to have no contaminants ) Secondly, you can perform electrolysis on the water and break it it down to its basic compounds, which by a great coincidence is really, really useful and fundamental to life living on a planet like Mars or Earth's moon.
By breaking down water, you get hydrogen (for energy) and oxygen!(for breathing). A few years back before the Great Orifice deemed the moon off limits to Americans because there were no Muslims in the space Agency, and NASA was pushing real hard for a lunar colony, satellites and other instruments, Eureka!,"discovered" that water existed in the depths of moon craters.
Now that was so cool but even cooler it was perfect, too perfect. If you were trying to convince the government to establish a manned lunar colony the first thing you 're going to do is to lowball the cost of building and maintaining it and having found water on the moon made the proposed lunar colony cheaper than the real cost butt still a lot more than the almost for free lunar colony NASA was going to sell Congress on. But then, this guy from Kenya Bee-Esssed everyone to became president, spent twenty years worshipping in a church, Not God bless America, but God Damm America, (He said that? I never, ever heard him say anything like that and besides I like to sleep late on Sundays and he must have said it before I snuck in.)turned out to be a Muslim, who despite having a moon on most of their Islamic icons, didn't like the moon (for Muslims) and so we never did hear about finding water on the moon ever again.
Now, there's a bunch of folks trying to get to Mars but their plan is only to go one way which still leaves with a problem of getting to go that one way.
Even in their original plan the folks at Mars One were trying to pull a fast one on NASA saying that using their rocket transportation, NASA would get priority on the project. Blah, Blah, Blah.
So now, we've got the same water "ticket" to Mars and the best thing is Bammy can't necessarily say no because it's not really a government project. Okay. Let's wait and see what else they "discover".
Before you go, make sure you’ve got plenty of Martini glasses for your ice.
I’m no scientist, but if there is underground water, that holds open the possibility that there may be a temperate zone underground with heat from a molten core where there may be some liquid water, with a remote chance of some rudimentary life forms.
Not anything I’d want us to spend a trillion dollars or so to find out, mind you.
The EPA has declared it a “waterway” and thus under the jurisdiction of Obama.
You got me thinking that Muslim colonists on Mars would only have a limited area of the planet where they could face Mecca for prayers.
What makes it believable is how common water is in the solar system. Comets are chock full of the stuff.
Need geologists with rock hammers and hand lenses.
Dry ice? Carbon Dioxide?
I'm not from Missouri, but "Show Me!".
So Mars has a high beam?
Martian conglomerate on the left and earth conglomerate on the right. This is a common rock type on Mars which demonstrates a lot of water was present. However, I haven't seen evidence of massive glaciation, a snowball Mars.
The people who master space technologies and master the techniques required to colonize these worlds, and the ability to move people to and from these worlds, and mine them and explore them, are the people who will dominate the coming century. The rest of us will be working for them. I’d like it to be our kids and grandkids, and not the Chinese, for example.
The universe is laid out before us. Everything we will ever need is right out there waiting for us. It would be a monumental tragedy to turn our backs on it in order to spend more on food stamps.
They want to get everyone psyched about Mars before the movie comes out.
(It was a fun book, and does nothing to change my enthusiasm for space exploration.)