Water found on MARS! [Breaking NASA News]

[Heat]

Water has been found on Mars! 

(incase you aren't understanding what this means);
It is now much more plausible that people will be able to travel to mars. Mars is revealing that it was once much like Earth, and is not the dry and super arid climate we know it as. Water also increases the likelihood for life existing on mars immensely, so expect more news to come as a wide range of possibilities opens due to the discovery of water existing on mars.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/28/us/mars-na...ouncement/
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/...-live.html

[vorlon13]

The water is actually a nasty chemical porridge of sulfates, chlorides, and weird peroxides and stuff like rocket fuel.

I suppose if it tastes just like the kind momma made when you were just out of the husk and hadn't gone through your chrysalis stage yet, it would be fine . . .

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

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).

Boru

[Violet]

I don't expect more news in the short term... it's huge enough, mind... but if liquid water is to be found in any kind of plentiful amount: I'm rather more curious about establishing underground martian cities, now. I'll start getting really excited when we get someone to mars and back again

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

I'll start getting really excited when we get someone to mars and back again

Your great-grandkids might live to see it, so...chin up!

Boru

[Exian]

Rocket fuel!?! Even better!

[Heat]

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).

Boru

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. 

Neil Degrasse Tyson said "We stopped dreaming". Let's start again.

[Minimalist]

I don't expect more news in the short term... it's huge enough, mind... but if liquid water is to be found in any kind of plentiful amount: I'm rather more curious about establishing underground martian cities, now. I'll start getting really excited when we get someone to mars and back again

Let's send Trump.... and skip the 'back again' part.

[SteelCurtain]

This is really exciting. Although, I feel a bit guilty for being a bit skeptical.

Could NASA be inflating these findings to drum up funding or political allies? Looking at a conservative congress and Donald Fucking Trump, I couldn't blame them if they were.

[Gawdzilla]

Whatever it is, they're going to have to science the shit out of it.