# Water on Mars?  Hip hip hooray!  Really...

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**Created:** [December 7, 2006, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/water-on-mars-hip-hip-hooray-really/383216 "2006-12-07T14:39:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![Diceman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Diceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diceman)\
**Post date:** [December 9, 2006, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/water-on-mars-hip-hip-hooray-really/383216/21 "2006-12-09T04:13:02Z")

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[QUOTE=Hampshire]  
So somebody fill me in on why water is such a great discovery. Doesn’t that just mean a presence of hyrogen and oxygen? Or are they taking the next gigantic leap of thinking “where there is water, there must be life!”???  
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If it hasn’t become clear by now, yes a lot of people are hoping that if we find water, we’ll find that it’s chock-full of Martian microorganisms.

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**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\
**Post date:** [December 9, 2006, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/water-on-mars-hip-hip-hooray-really/383216/22 "2006-12-09T04:23:40Z")

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How do they know that the material was deposited by water, and not the wind?

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**Author:** ![Triskadecamus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b19c9b/32.png) [@Triskadecamus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Triskadecamus)\
**Post date:** [December 9, 2006, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/water-on-mars-hip-hip-hooray-really/383216/23 "2006-12-09T05:49:54Z")

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> The discovery of bright deposits on Mars, announced this week by NASA, could indicate that liquid water has recently flowed on a few locations on the planet.

Hey, to me, that falls somewhat short of "Water discovered on Mars!

If I was crawling across a planet sized desert, and found a place that could indicate that liquid water had recently flowed, I would be just short of diving in and drinking my fill, ya know?

We already added water to likely soils and waited for signs of life reviving. No go. On earth, you do that, you get shit growing out of the beaker. If there was water there ten years ago, there should be signs of the life that thrived on it ten years ago. Haven’t heard about that so far

Tris

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**Author:** ![KGS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/90ced4/32.png) [@KGS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KGS)\
**Post date:** [December 9, 2006, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/water-on-mars-hip-hip-hooray-really/383216/24 "2006-12-09T06:52:08Z")

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The Martians have running water?

That settles it. We must invade NOW!!!

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