NASA makes big news today

[angryChineseKahanist]

NASA has some big news today Monday.
They may have found rocks on Mars.


http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/28/us/mars-nasa-announcement/

[Zelhar]

Do they recycle discoveries?

[IsraelForever]

I'm trying to figure something out.  Suppose they find amoeba in the water on Mars or other very primitive life forms.  Who cares?  And how does that change anything?  Is this supposed to be something so momentous that it's even worth bothering about? 

[angryChineseKahanist]

I'm trying to figure something out.  Suppose they find amoeba in the water on Mars or other very primitive life forms.  Who cares?  And how does that change anything?  Is this supposed to be something so momentous that it's even worth bothering about?

we're supposed to sit here shaking because the earth is warming and nyc is going to be under 3000000000 feet of water.
so we're supposed to want to evacuate earth and move to mars.
we're also polluting the galaxy so humans should cease to exist.

[angryChineseKahanist]

Do they recycle discoveries?

recycling is good for mars.

[IsraelForever]

we're supposed to sit here shaking because the earth is warming and nyc is going to be under 3000000000 feet of water.
so we're supposed to want to evacuate earth and move to mars.
we're also polluting the galaxy so humans should cease to exist.

(I know, angryChineseKahanist that you're mocking the idea of humans moving to Mars, but I want to show why it's a ridiculous idea and beyond the realm of possibility.)  The atmosphere is largely carbon dioxide, which is deadly to humans with no buffer gas like nitrogen.  We need oxygen to breathe and there's not enough there.  The atmospheric pressure is about 1% of the Earth's atmospheric pressure, which is enough to count as a laboratory vacuum. Below 10%, it is impossible for humans to survive more than minutes, because when the pressure is this low, your saliva boils, and the moisture lining your lungs also boils. 

Good luck changing all of that on this inhospitable place.

[angryChineseKahanist]

(I know, angryChineseKahanist that you're mocking the idea of humans moving to Mars, but I want to show why it's a ridiculous idea and beyond the realm of possibility.)  The atmosphere is largely carbon dioxide, which is deadly to humans with no buffer gas like nitrogen.  We need oxygen to breathe and there's not enough there.  The atmospheric pressure is about 1% of the Earth's atmospheric pressure, which is enough to count as a laboratory vacuum. Below 10%, it is impossible for humans to survive more than minutes, because when the pressure is this low, your saliva boils, and the moisture lining your lungs also boils. 

Good luck changing all of that on this inhospitable place.

Oh of course.
The whole thing is to waste our money.