(September 28, 2015 at 6:28 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: I agree that this improves the chances for finding life on Mars (consider some of the extremophiles we have right here at home), but I don't see it improving the chances for human beings travelling to Mars (nil, for the foreseeable future).It's not about agreeing, NASA said themselves(can't find where i read it) that they are very interested in sending people up to mars soon in their reveal. I think this discovery will fuel and push people to innovate, invent, and allow humans to travel to mars. I think of it as how eager we were to travel to the moon. The moon was unknown, it was unexplored and mysterious. Finding water on what we thought was a completely dry landscape, not only gives us insight in to the past of what the planet was like, but more importantly it reignites the mystery of the planet, it gets people thinking "Well I wonder what else we are wrong about, or haven't discovered?" again, which was lost in my opinion with all the new technologies developed such as the mars rover. People started assuming that we knew everything there was to know, and that after all this time they most likely wouldn't discover anything significantly different if they hadn't already, especially since mars is the most talked about/observed planet outside of the moon/earth. The discovery itself does not matter all that much, what matters is that we were wrong, and if we were wrong once we can be wrong again. That's the mystery, and mystery is the nurturer of dreams, innovation, and creativity. Without mystery, there's no need to search for alternate answers.
Boru
Neil Degrasse Tyson said "We stopped dreaming". Let's start again.
