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      06-21-2008, 04:00 PM   #23
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today's science is comprised of all the work done by yesterday's science



I hope you do realize that one day, there will be no more earth. Whether it be the sun destroying it when it becomes a red giant or whether we destroy it with killing the ozone layer. If the species, humans want to survive, they're going to have to find a place to live elsewhere.

The significance of going to the moon was like a baby step. How safe would you feel to travel straight to pluto on your first trip? It's way too dangerous. This is a means of discovery. Sure, it's slow, but the science today has taken us many many years to discover. For example, the structure of DNA is quite obvious to many of us now, but it took watson and crick a lot of studying and a bit of robbery to get to the real structure. That's over 100 years of work just to discover what makes you, you.
You watch way too much sci-fi channel.
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Our country will probably be destroyed before the earth is.

By the way, I read that article on space.com about the melting ice theory. They didn't find any water in the oven chamber, but they deduced that frozen water (ice) was in the photos.

I'm just a lowly lay person, but would someone explain to me why that frozen stuff couldn't be some other organic frozen liquid? (e.g., methane); probably has something to do with melting points/freezing temps.

I also presume that there's no chance that any of the propellant from the lander could be below it and could have frozen in the cold Mars environment.
that's a good question and they probably based it on properties of all the possible liquids at the temp. color, density, heat of fusion, freezing point

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You watch way too much sci-fi channel.
no, i'm just a biology major
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You watch way too much sci-fi channel.
you know too little science. lol
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you know too little science. lol
I tried to watch sci-fi, but it was way too confusing for me. Shit flying everywhere in space and weird looking aliens trying to kill each other. It put me off from any kind of space exploration.


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