# NASA Has Mars Announcement **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 26, 2015, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nasa-has-mars-announcement/732537 "2015-09-26T02:47:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Grumman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/43a26b/32.png) [@Grumman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grumman)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2015, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nasa-has-mars-announcement/732537/41 "2015-09-28T16:48:19Z")
> [@AK84](#): > > So would this get support for a manned martian sortie? It shouldn’t. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2015, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nasa-has-mars-announcement/732537/42 "2015-09-28T16:48:44Z")
Good time to release a Martian movie ---
**Author:** ![chappachula](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d2c977/32.png) [@chappachula](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chappachula)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2015, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nasa-has-mars-announcement/732537/43 "2015-09-28T16:56:58Z")
This is the coolest scientific discovery I can imagine. [http://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-confirms-evidence-that-liquid-water-flows-on-today-s-mars](http://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-confirms-evidence-that-liquid-water-flows-on-today-s-mars) How long will it be before they find some form of life? Me, I want to meet the classic Martians: little green men with antennas on their ears. Those tall greys with big eyes and anal probes are just soooo 1980’s. ---
**Author:** ![Diceman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Diceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diceman)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2015, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nasa-has-mars-announcement/732537/44 "2015-09-28T16:57:41Z")
> [@August\_West](#): > > And it’s water. Liquidy type. Just as we suspected. I’m sure I’m not the only one who’s a bit underwhelmed. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2015, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nasa-has-mars-announcement/732537/45 "2015-09-28T16:59:24Z")
Don’t be. Everywhere on Earth you find liquid water, no matter what temperature or pressure or how much sunlight reaches it, you find life. Now we know Mars has liquid water too. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2015, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nasa-has-mars-announcement/732537/46 "2015-09-28T17:00:56Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > HOLY SHIT! [A leaked picture](https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/52/17/cc/5217ccefe47d6032b72e21476b36e823.jpg)! That one’s faked! If it were real, you wouldn’t see the lander, just the demon boy and the Great and Awesome Tiger looking in the camera lens. Who do they think they’re kidding? ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2015, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nasa-has-mars-announcement/732537/47 "2015-09-28T17:12:37Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > That one’s faked! If it were real, you wouldn’t see the lander, just the demon boy and the Great and Awesome Tiger looking in the camera lens. Who do they think they’re kidding? The Mars rover comes equipped with a selfie stick. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2015, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nasa-has-mars-announcement/732537/48 "2015-09-28T17:14:16Z")
Finally! Canals on Mars! Percival Lowell was right all along! ---
**Author:** ![Don\_t\_Panic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/don_t_panic/32/398_2.png) [@Don\_t\_Panic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_Panic)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2015, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nasa-has-mars-announcement/732537/49 "2015-09-28T17:30:37Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > The Mars rover comes equipped with a selfie stick. And in case anyone thinks **Miller** is joking: [He isn’t.](http://news.discovery.com/space/curiosity-rover-uses-robotic-arm-as-selfie-stick-during-trek-150820.htm) ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2015, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nasa-has-mars-announcement/732537/50 "2015-09-28T17:35:47Z")
^ Look out, Opportunity, it’s Bigfoot!! ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2015, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nasa-has-mars-announcement/732537/51 "2015-09-28T18:02:03Z")
> [@chappachula](#): > > This is the coolest scientific discovery I can imagine. > [NASA Confirms Evidence That Liquid Water Flows on Today’s Mars - NASA](http://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-confirms-evidence-that-liquid-water-flows-on-today-s-mars) > > How long will it be before they find some form of life? Just solid evidence of recent flowing water, not flowing water now. _puts away bathing suit._ This is great - but far from the coolest discovery I can imagine. I can imagine quite a lot. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Ale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@Ale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ale)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2015, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nasa-has-mars-announcement/732537/52 "2015-09-28T18:08:12Z")
Not to toot my own horn but… > [@Ale](#): > > Water on Mars is old news, isn’t it? Granted, as ice, but still. > > Liquid, briny water perhaps? [“Dark narrow streaks called recurring slope lineae emanating out of the walls of Garni crater on Mars. The dark streaks here are up to few hundred meters in length. They are hypothesized to be formed by flow of briny liquid water on Mars.”](http://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-confirms-evidence-that-liquid-water-flows-on-today-s-mars) _Toooot!_ 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2015, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nasa-has-mars-announcement/732537/53 "2015-09-28T18:17:25Z")
My college’s astronomy professor had an assistant who was convinced there was liquid water on Mars. If he’s still alive, he’s thrilled. ---
**Author:** ![Ale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@Ale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ale)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2015, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nasa-has-mars-announcement/732537/54 "2015-09-28T18:17:32Z")
The question now is if there is some sort of water cycle going on. Seems unlikely to me that it’s just the remnants of some ancient water bodies still sipping after who knows how many tens or hundreds of millions of years. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2015, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nasa-has-mars-announcement/732537/55 "2015-09-28T18:20:31Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > That one’s faked! If it were real, you wouldn’t see the lander, just the demon boy and the Great and Awesome Tiger looking in the camera lens. Who do they think they’re kidding? Yeah, you’re probably right. It woul… **WHOA!!** [Actual non-NASA video from Mars](https://youtu.be/QyXJfUPSQhM?t=72)!! I don’t believe it!! ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2015, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nasa-has-mars-announcement/732537/56 "2015-09-28T19:46:50Z")
From some of the interpretations, possibly more like wet mud about a centimeter deep than any sort of raging river. As to what this says about the possibilities of life, who knows – but may not say much. This would be small amounts of very cold water that is liquid only because it’s heavily saturated in perchlorate salts, and even then its presence is intermittent. Whereas life on earth developed in warm briny oceans. Of course this says nothing about what may have developed billions of years ago, when Mars was warmer and wetter. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2015, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nasa-has-mars-announcement/732537/57 "2015-09-28T19:49:15Z")
Merged duplicate threads. ---
**Author:** ![Onomatopoeia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/onomatopoeia/32/4145_2.png) [@Onomatopoeia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Onomatopoeia)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2015, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nasa-has-mars-announcement/732537/58 "2015-09-28T20:02:42Z")
> [@chappachula](#): > > Me, I want to meet the classic Martians: little green men with antennas on their ears. > Those tall greys with big eyes and anal probes are just soooo 1980’s. [Martians with antennae are sooo 1960s.](http://www.freecomicbookday.com/catalogimages/STK_IMAGES/STK440001-460000/STK459327.jpg) 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![gytalf2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ac91a4/32.png) [@gytalf2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gytalf2000)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2015, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nasa-has-mars-announcement/732537/59 "2015-09-28T20:28:28Z")
> [@chappachula](#): > > This is the coolest scientific discovery I can imagine. > [NASA Confirms Evidence That Liquid Water Flows on Today’s Mars - NASA](http://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-confirms-evidence-that-liquid-water-flows-on-today-s-mars) > > How long will it be before they find some form of life? > > Me, I want to meet the classic Martians: little green men with antennas on their ears. > Those tall greys with big eyes and anal probes are just soooo 1980’s. I’m hoping for at least some legitimate fossils, myself. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2015, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nasa-has-mars-announcement/732537/60 "2015-09-28T20:35:08Z")
> [@Martian Bigfoot](#): > > Well, they certainly haven’t informed me that I’ve been discovered. I hope they don’t think they need to go the paparazzi route. I’d be happy to give interviews and pose for photos. 😉 Nah, you know those always come out blurry. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nasa-has-mars-announcement/732537.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nasa-has-mars-announcement/732537.md?page=4)