There are a lot of real happy scientists out there today after NASA announced they have officially discovered ice on Mars with their Phoenix Mars Lander spacecraft. The whole purpose of the Phoenix mission was to find ice, and hopefully organic life in the ice, which NASA is one step closer to today. So just exactly how do you determine if you've discovered ice on another planet? Forget fancy experiments and tests. All you have to do is take a picture of the ground one day, then do it again four days later, and see if anything has changed. That's what NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) did when examining the silvery looking substance in the bottom of the trench dug by Phoenix's robotic arm as seen in the picture. They show more of the substance on the left photo than in the right which was taken four days later from the same trench, referred to informally as "Dodo-Goldilocks". NASA scientists believe the substance is ice that has vaporized through the process of sublimation because the stuff obviously didn't get up and walk away on its own. Cheers to you, NASA! I hope you have the same luck finding organic life on Mars , unless they turn out to be evil Martian aliens.
Photo: NASA
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Friday, June 20, 2008
NASA shelves science, uses reasoning to discover ice on Mars
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more accurate would be they shelved technology, used deduction. Observation IS an aspect of science. Observation, conjecture, deduction, and experimentation to determine whether the conjecture and following deductions were correct. It's called the scientific method, look it up. Stop dissing science just because you are unable to define the word.
Let me interpret for fotognome:
"I am smarter than you are. Nah nah. I've never been with a woman. Nah nah. My life consists of visiting websites and showing off my vocabulary to make up for my tiny wank. Nah nah."
Dude, it was an attempt at humor, not the title of a Pulitzer Prize winning piece. This is just a blog. Get a life.
Wow, I'm.. so impressed that an anonymous troll has started whining, and thinks a 4 syllable word that's supposed to be part of a 3rd grader's vocabulary is showing off (if you can't guess which one, this is why your 6 year old neice pwns you at scrabble).
Shocking.. really.
BTW if you think that's masturbating... then I can only say maybe natural selection hasn't given up on the human race, because I'm about to go to bed relieved in the knowledge that there is no way in hell you will ever successfully jerk off, much less breed.
thank god.
PS, I know sarcasm and that *points up* isn't it. Fails to meet quality guidelines, or something. Obviously my standards are far too high, you know, what with reading el reg, and Cracked.com all day.
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