Hot water on Mars action. [Archive]

Iguana

8 Dec 2006, 17:28

=OOOOOOOOOOO (http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/mgs/newsroom/20061206b.html)
Just got posted on some other forum.

Star Worms

9 Dec 2006, 13:43

Everyone knows there is water on Mars :p

http://www.presencenet.be/spacenews/media/8/20040328-Water%20Mars.jpg

kikumbob

9 Dec 2006, 21:11

Everyone knows there is water on Mars :p

http://www.presencenet.be/spacenews/media/8/20040328-Water%20Mars.jpg The last time I saw that trick they managed to balance a glass of water on one single mars bar.

Xinos

9 Dec 2006, 23:51

Well, that's one way of looking at it. I think that this time they just had a larger budget. ;)

kikumbob

10 Dec 2006, 14:14

But it dosnt make sense!
"Hey guys! I found water on two marses! Wooo!"

Apocalypse

10 Dec 2006, 15:00

It stood in the newspapers here.
When I showed it to my dad he said about this:
"Heh, that's just fake. NASA needs a bit of money again, so they say 'hey we found water on Mars!!'
Doesn't matter if it's real, they just need a budget again.
Last time they said 'look out people, there's huge ass asteroids comin' at Earth."

Or something like that...
Besides, who says it's WATER? Could be LIQUID/HOT MUD too :p

KRD

10 Dec 2006, 15:17

Mud is a liquid or semi-liquid mixture of water and some combination of soil, silt, and clay.

Good enough for me.

Preasure

10 Dec 2006, 15:31

So mars has a slash now and again when no-ones looking? Makes sense to me.

Paul.Power

10 Dec 2006, 16:29

Last time they said 'look out people, there's huge ass asteroids comin' at Earth."Well, they aren't going to keep missing us forever.

Xinos

10 Dec 2006, 16:36

But it dosnt make sense!
"Hey guys! I found water on two marses! Wooo!"

No it's the same mars. Just like picking up two rocks from the ground does not create two more planet earths.

Alien King

10 Dec 2006, 16:42

Just like picking up two rocks from the ground does not create two more planet earths.

What if I was to put them into orbit around the Sun and they became the centre of a new planet?

Ok, the process of forming a new rock planet would take billions and billions of years, by which time our Sun would probably have gone and the rocks no longer existent as rocks, but you get the basic concept.

Vader

10 Dec 2006, 17:29

No it's the same mars. Just like picking up two rocks from the ground does not create two more planet earths.

No, but it does mean you picked up two rocks rather than a rock.

His point was that the plrual of Mars (the chocolate bar) is Marses. That's why a glass of water on two Marses is not as accurate as a glass of water on a Mars.

They should have just poured some water on a single bar.

MrBunsy

10 Dec 2006, 17:33

Isn't the company that makes them called Mars though? In which case it might still be correct even though there're two of 'em.

Melon

10 Dec 2006, 17:46

Actually, they are called Mars bars, not Mars.

Therefore the plural of Mars bar is Mars bars, not Marses.

So everybody is wrong.

Take that.

*runs*

Plasma

10 Dec 2006, 18:08

Isn't the company that makes them called Mars though? In which case it might still be correct even though there're two of 'em.
In that case, a single bar would be a Mars's.

kikumbob

10 Dec 2006, 19:14

Its possible we may have missed the point of the joke...

Plasma

10 Dec 2006, 19:15

Its possible we may have missed the point of the joke...
No, the joke just wasn't funny anyway.

kikumbob

10 Dec 2006, 19:19

It was the first time somone posted it on BTP. But it soon got old when people started trying to put the mars on water and then water on snickers..

AndrewTaylor

10 Dec 2006, 23:39

In that case, a single bar would be a Mars's.

Maybe so, but it still wouldn't be apostrophised or spelt that way.

Metal Alex

10 Dec 2006, 23:57

How about if we talk about water on the planet mars, and not a glass of water on two chocolate bars?

AndrewTaylor

11 Dec 2006, 00:10

I won't be impressed until they find electricity on Mars. A thirteen-amp socket in a crater, with a bit of rusty dust on. That would impress me.

Zero72

11 Dec 2006, 00:16

Its possible we may have missed the point of the joke...Choose your words more carefully.

Kelster23

11 Dec 2006, 05:14

Water on Mars?
That's gonna be a pretty angry bringer of war...

M3ntal

11 Dec 2006, 15:08

Here's a better picture of water on Mars:http://roselli.org/tour/photos/Oct_ftp/mad_lisa_01.jpg

Alien King

11 Dec 2006, 16:48

I won't be impressed until they find electricity on Mars. A thirteen-amp socket in a crater, with a bit of rusty dust on. That would impress me.

I wouldn't be very amazed at that.

kikumbob

11 Dec 2006, 16:55

I wouldn't be very amazed at that. I have to ask...why?

Alien King

11 Dec 2006, 16:57

I have to ask...why?

Because that could get there through a number of strange and unlikely ways.

I would be impressed if they found a TV though.

wormthingy

11 Dec 2006, 18:57

i think I'd be impressed if they saw somehing invisible on mars.

MtlAngelus

11 Dec 2006, 19:08

Or if they found a big red button with the caption "DESTROY EARTH". Hah I so would press it. :p

Alien King

11 Dec 2006, 19:11

i think I'd be impressed if they saw somehing invisible on mars.

I would be impressed if they saw a truly invisible object on Earth!

Preasure

11 Dec 2006, 19:28

Because that could get there through a number of strange and unlikely ways.
A plug socket in a crater? Sounds like something out of The Hitchhikers Guide of the Galaxy. Of course, you'd take the wrong adaptor for it.

Metal Alex

11 Dec 2006, 19:29

http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=343

impressed then?

Melon

11 Dec 2006, 19:43

Plasmonic resonance can only be used to "hide" very small objects - microscopically small objects - and usually the effect would only work with objects of a very specific shape and with light of a particular wavelength.

So, scientists have managed to find a way to make you unable to see objects that you can't see anyway?

Good to see funding going to such projects.
Those who take my comment seriously need to be shot. Let's not argue over the details, just laugh at my humour.

Metal Alex

11 Dec 2006, 19:54

Those who take my comment seriously need to be shot. Let's not argue over the details, just laugh at my humour.

nah, let's just say they just discovered it, so no time to improve it yet. (END)

Paul.Power

11 Dec 2006, 20:50

Here's a better picture of water on Mars:http://roselli.org/tour/photos/Oct_ftp/mad_lisa_01.jpgHey, is that Madurodam?

M3ntal

12 Dec 2006, 01:04

No idea. It's apparently a model of a Mars factory though.

Kelster23

12 Dec 2006, 02:11

...
I think that's a truck in the background (the yellow thing near his hand) but it also looks like he's holding a box of Timbits or Donuts or something that comes in a rectangular box.

Preasure

12 Dec 2006, 17:02

No, it's a model truck. The cab's a much darker colour and blends in with the floor.

Paul.Power

12 Dec 2006, 19:32

No idea. It's apparently a model of a Mars factory though.Looks like Madurodam. It's a very nice model city in the Netherlands. I visited it when I went to stay with one of my Uni friends for a week.

Apocalypse

13 Dec 2006, 08:31

It is Madurodam, I recognize it. It's really pretty and detailed, and displays various parts of the Netherlands *so proud* even Schiphol has got moving planes and sounds, very nicely built :cool:

Cisken1

14 Dec 2006, 23:32

I got such a great idea for a picture!

*watch this space*

Apocalypse

15 Dec 2006, 10:19

*watch this space**watches*
"meh.. nothing happened" what picture? show it!! now!!!
*leaves*

Liketyspli

15 Dec 2006, 18:23

Looks like Madurodam. It's a very nice model city in the Netherlands. I visited it when I went to stay with one of my Uni friends for a week.
Netherlands kicks ***.... uhhh... butt... doesn't it?

Pity, they dont even have My house in Madurodam...

Apocalypse

15 Dec 2006, 19:39

Pity, they dont even have My house in Madurodam...Make tons of pics, make a model of your house, aks for a fan-place in Madurodam and place it there, with adress n all :P

Cisken1

15 Dec 2006, 19:42

*watches*
"meh.. nothing happened" what picture? show it!! now!!!
*leaves*

*drags apo back in, slaps picture on the wall*

Why won't flash let me save in higher-res than this???
*edit* T17 saves in jpg! daimn! Uploading somewhere else then!

There

http://img20.imageshack.us/img20/4029/wateronmarswx0.png

Apocalypse

15 Dec 2006, 21:19

Why won't flash let me save in higher-res than this???
*edit* T17 saves in jpg! daimn! Uploading somewhere else then!

There

http://img20.imageshack.us/img20/4029/wateronmarswx0.pngThat is just so cool.
What if it's real? :p

wormthingy

16 Dec 2006, 14:46

*watch this space*

*Still watches*
Ooh the suspense is killing me! :D

Xinos

17 Dec 2006, 01:40

Why won't flash let me save in higher-res than this???

Because that is how big your picture was in flash. Just hit transform and make it larger..

Preasure

17 Dec 2006, 09:52

You win the thread. Period.

kikumbob

17 Dec 2006, 11:35

*drags apo back in, slaps picture on the wall*

Why won't flash let me save in higher-res than this???
*edit* T17 saves in jpg! daimn! Uploading somewhere else then!

There

http://img20.imageshack.us/img20/4029/wateronmarswx0.png I'm confused. Is he peeing or doing something a whole lot more pleasurably behind that rock?

GrimOswald

17 Dec 2006, 11:43

He's peeing.

That alternative hadn't actually occured to me, and I was happier then.

Preasure

18 Dec 2006, 20:32

I'm confused. Is he peeing or doing something a whole lot more pleasurably behind that rock?
Wow. You found a more vulgar meaning to a Cisken picture...

Cisken1

19 Dec 2006, 00:04

Because that is how big your picture was in flash. Just hit transform and make it larger..

Nah, I meant quality, but it's fixed now!

I'm confused. Is he peeing or doing something a whole lot more pleasurably behind that rock?

... he's drunk sooo...maybe he is? *DUN DUN DUUUUN*