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Snaggy Moderator 
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posted May 26, 2002 19:54
   
You may have seen this elsewhere, but if you haven't... WooHoo!!! http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_2009000/2009318.stm IP: Logged |
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spungo Assimilated 
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posted May 27, 2002 02:37
Whoa. It means manned missions could be a lot easier... if they can stock up on water when they get there. Personally, I'm holding out for a planet that has beer. ------------------ IP: Logged |
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macadddikt18 BlabberMouth, the Next Generation.     
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posted May 27, 2002 06:58
i also saw that. it looked interesting. maybe i read something else but i seem, to remember they found hydrogen, not ice. They were thinking that the hydrogen was stored in ice crystals. if it is water, though, think of the possibilities. maybe in my lifetime see them land on Mars. how exiting. Nayt IP: Logged |
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LifetimeTrekker Assimilated
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posted May 27, 2002 11:32
[rant] It'll work, as long as the manned missions are directed but anyone except the idiots at NASA! Those moronic twits have flushed away more of the space program than Proxmire ever thought of! [/rant] I really hope there is a mission to Mars. That will be the next turning point in human history. With any luck, it'll begin in our lifetimes. (but I'm not holding my breath!) IP: Logged |
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Evilbunny Highlie 
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posted May 27, 2002 12:55
<cheer> Yeah! </cheer> IP: Logged |
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GameGod Geek Apprentice
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posted May 28, 2002 13:11
mmm, Terraforming not too far away, I forsee 
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ZorroTheFox BlabberMouth, the Next Generation.
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posted May 28, 2002 15:10
I wonder if I'll live long enough to see Mars colonized. If so, I'd gladly lend My services to help increase the population there >;o) ......Z **note: for those who have been having a hard time telling the difference, this is one of My bait posts.** IP: Logged |
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greycat Alpha Geek  Posts: 282 |
posted May 30, 2002 10:49
Yes, Nayt, they found hydrogen. They were using a gamma ray probe of some sort that operates from orbit and can detect stuff up to 1 meter beneath the surface. They found hydrogen there, mixed with a lot of other stuff. The only reasonable explanation for that amount of hydrogen would be water. At the temperature Mars has, it would be in solid form. IP: Logged |
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LifetimeTrekker Assimilated
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posted May 30, 2002 21:29
Maybe Canada will start a space program, if only to send John Cretien and Joe Clark back to whatever planets they come from! IP: Logged |
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spungo Assimilated
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posted May 31, 2002 02:50
quote: Only if you told them there was moose in space. ------------------ IP: Logged |
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spungo Assimilated
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posted May 31, 2002 02:52
I can hear it now: 'Winnipeg, we have a problem.' 'One small step for man, one giant leap for a hoser, eh?'
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iballoondesign Assimilated
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posted June 04, 2002 19:56
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Tau Zero BlabberMouth, the Next Generation.
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posted June 05, 2002 10:48
quote: Bob Zubrin's Mars Direct scheme involved bringing along hydrogen from Earth, because hydrogen was the only component of rocket fuel (carbon, oxygen, hydrogen) not readily available from the Martian atmosphere. If a mission could depend on a readily-recoverable supply of ice, even the hydrogen could be obtained on site; all you'd have to bring along is energy (in the form of uranium for a nuclear reactor). IP: Logged |
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