You can simply use it as water, but also make air and fuel from it, which means an expedition doesn't have to carry as much mass with it.
Mars: there *is* ice!
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Doesn't mean anything for those who don't understand why this is an exiting discovery.
Means everything imaginable for the individual person able to be interested in looking beyond what keeps them occupied in daily life on earth, this day, this moment. And every single one of them has other interests and an other way to get thrilled about this.
Don't you think it could be an enrichment of your life to discover why? In my view we don't live to merely "exist".
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ymu
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Tend to agree with this. I'm sure they know what they're talking about an' that and it'll be to do with air pressure or summat, but sublimation is not a process I associate with water ice at all.
ymu
Niall Ferguson's deep-cover sock-puppet
Fair point - I'm very confused about what temperature it is up there.Freeze drying occurs in your freezer.
Still wanna see the analysis though.
yea i thought we already knew that....there are ice caps at both poles so the reasonable person would assume there is ice elsewhere on the planet
dilute micro
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The answer to your question is the state of the research into the origin of life debate.
Yes it's that important.
I think you mean: Origin of life after the possibilities for these elements to become origin of life came into existence.
salaam.
I'm confused about what finding water on mars is all about. I doubt human life originated from mars. And given the atmosphere I doubt it holds out any future existence for human life. So?
dilute micro
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Well I'm speaking from the history of origin science and the debate between creationist and naturalists. In modern times the simplified version has gone something like this:
Young Earth theory was adopted by christians about 200 years before Origin of Species. Origins was great but didn't explain the origin of life. .... The Big Bang theory was adopted by naturalists and rejected by creationists. .... time passes .... Some creationists begin to reject young earth theory. They then come to see the Big Bang as the creation event. Naturalists begin to see a problem with a single event and the question of a causative factor. Then a theory of a universe forever starting and stopping. Probability theory gets used to explain that life maybe isn't as unique as we once thought. So off we go looking for the basics needed for life and signs of life with all the planets found recently and Mars so close by.
Well that's how I have it. Feel free to correct or add to it.
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It means that there might be life on Mars and if we get round to exploring the solar system we can use mars as a truck stop and use the ice for drinking, converting into oxygen and fuel.
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