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'We thought it was impossible:' Water frost on Mars discovered near Red Planet's equator (www.space.com)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 151 points 4 months ago (6 children)

Quick, send 200 billionaires to Mars to confirm this.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

We should send up some sea monkeys for hahas.

/s

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

We should send genetically modified cockroaches and algae. Then check back 500 years later. Surely there's no way it can go wrong

JOHJ in the distance

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Without their money

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (2 children)

What would they do with their money on Mars?

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Use it to extract more money from the indentured servants they conned into going.

You think Jeff bezos is gonna be putting up the solar panels?

You think the air in mars habitats is gonna be free?

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Same thing they do here, hoard it

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

But don't bring them back.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Don't send Elon, though. I'd rather we not contaminate the planet.

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I'd rather contaminate Mars with him than Earth.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Let's just launch him into the Sun.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Sadly, it takes a shit ton of energy to get things to the sun. Everything is moving very quickly around the sun. You need the opposite amount of energy to fall in.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

You only need enough energy to get it down to the orbit of Venus, plus a little bit extra for some gravity assists around Venus and Jupiter. Those will shoot it to the edge of the solar system where a tiny bit of thrust will kill the remaining angular momentum and let it fall back into the sun.
Oh, and it will take a century.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Speaking as an aerospace engineer, of course. But it'd be a worthy um...expenditure?

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

Careful! Iโ€™m told those individuals are responsible for nearly all productive work on the planet.

[โ€“] [email protected] 49 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Just give first dibs to Nestle. They will find a way to get there.

[โ€“] [email protected] 78 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I doubt it. There are no indigenous people there that rely on that water so nestle wouldn't be motivated enough to get it.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Yeah, it's no fun without the cruelty