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sangria Full Member Posts: 4,507 Likes: 7,139	Significant Mars discovery announcement Sept 25, 2015 22:44:13 GMT -5 via Tapatalk Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by sangria on Sept 25, 2015 22:44:13 GMT -5 www.iflscience.com/space/nasa-announce-major-discovery-regarding-mars-monday Any guesses? Water?
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Pibs Full Member Posts: 1,256 Likes: 719	Significant Mars discovery announcement Sept 25, 2015 23:07:26 GMT -5 wise_rita, IIOY, and 14 more like this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Pibs on Sept 25, 2015 23:07:26 GMT -5 Mark Watney is alive?!
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elleblue Elder Posts: 29,901 Likes: 51,819	Significant Mars discovery announcement Sept 25, 2015 23:17:12 GMT -5 saz likes this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by elleblue on Sept 25, 2015 23:17:12 GMT -5 Omg, NASA is such a tease! I don't want to have to wait until Monday.
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josieposy Elder Posts: 15,709 Likes: 30,456	Significant Mars discovery announcement Sept 25, 2015 23:34:42 GMT -5 via the ProBoards App Mrs.Rad888, 2curlydogs, and 17 more like this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by josieposy on Sept 25, 2015 23:34:42 GMT -5 They found the Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator, and Marvin the Martian is hella pissed about it.
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Sept 25, 2015 23:34:42 GMT -5 josieposy said:

They found the Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator, and Marvin the Martian is hella pissed about it.

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sequins Senior Member If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together. Posts: 7,543 Likes: 17,463	Significant Mars discovery announcement Sept 25, 2015 23:54:39 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by sequins on Sept 25, 2015 23:54:39 GMT -5 I'm so excited about this!!
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Significant Mars discovery announcement Sept 26, 2015 2:25:41 GMT -5 via the ProBoards App 2curlydogs likes this

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Sept 25, 2015 23:52:16 GMT -5 2curlydogs said:

Sept 25, 2015 23:34:42 GMT -5 josieposy said:

They found the Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator, and Marvin the Martian is hella pissed about it.

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There was supposed to be an earth-shattering kaboom!

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Velar Fricative Elder Posts: 34,495 Likes: 62,830	Significant Mars discovery announcement Sept 26, 2015 6:46:46 GMT -5 via mobile ttt, raangoli, and 8 more like this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Velar Fricative on Sept 26, 2015 6:46:46 GMT -5 Donald Trump and Ted Cruz have agreed to go live there?
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Vespasia Senior Member Posts: 8,546 Likes: 15,922	Significant Mars discovery announcement Sept 26, 2015 8:17:00 GMT -5 via the ProBoards App Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Vespasia on Sept 26, 2015 8:17:00 GMT -5 I thought they already found water? Well, ice at least. A relative does work associated with one of the projects mentioned. I wish we were closer so I could beg him to tell me now!
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Scout'sHonor Full Member Posts: 2,151 Likes: 2,289	Significant Mars discovery announcement Sept 26, 2015 8:22:54 GMT -5 via the ProBoards App meshaliuknits, pixy0stix, and 19 more like this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Scout'sHonor on Sept 26, 2015 8:22:54 GMT -5 MH370 is on it?
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emisi Full Member argle-bargle ˌärɡəl ˈbärɡəl/ noun informal 1. copious but meaningless talk or writing; nonsense Posts: 3,656 Likes: 2,881	Significant Mars discovery announcement Sept 26, 2015 15:52:19 GMT -5 via the ProBoards App Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by emisi on Sept 26, 2015 15:52:19 GMT -5 Alien burial ground. Sent from my SM-T810 using proboards
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If it is a fossil or organism, what does that mean in regards to the great filter? I'm thinking of the article posted here (I think) a few months ago about why we haven't found life on other planets, or why aliens haven't contacted us. I can't remember the specifics of the article now...

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miniroller Elder Posts: 12,263 Likes: 20,332	Significant Mars discovery announcement Sept 26, 2015 16:25:59 GMT -5 via the ProBoards App sequins likes this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by miniroller on Sept 26, 2015 16:25:59 GMT -5 Sept 25, 2015 23:54:39 GMT -5 sequins said: I'm so excited about this!! (Cough) NERD!!! (Cough, Cough)
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Sept 26, 2015 15:52:19 GMT -5 emisi said:

Alien burial ground.

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Ancient Indian alien burial ground. More poltergeists that way.

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overture Full Member Posts: 2,289 Likes: 1,783	Significant Mars discovery announcement Sept 26, 2015 20:38:31 GMT -5 bimbi284 likes this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by overture on Sept 26, 2015 20:38:31 GMT -5 Sept 26, 2015 19:58:22 GMT -5 operagirl said: Daily Mail had Stonehenge-esque photo:
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Significant Mars discovery announcement Sept 26, 2015 23:25:15 GMT -5 heliocentric, pennypenny, and 11 more like this

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Hey CEP! I don't post over here much - I'm mostly on H&F - but I like to jump in when I feel like I can possibly contribute something that makes sense. I love CEP, and rely on it for the main part of feeling like I know what's going on in the world. Thanks for that!

Anyway, I'm a Ph.D. student in Geology, and I work for NASA - I study volcanoes on Mars and do experimental geochemistry, so this is totally my jam. Based on the people who are involved in this press conference, and what they have worked on in the past/are currently working on, many of us think that HiRISE (hence having Al McEwen as part of the panel) has gotten some excellent imagery of the recurring slope lineae (RSL) sites, and these images strongly support that RSLs are formed by flowing water emerging from the subsurface. Ojha (another panel member - and a very suspicious one at that, since us lowly grad students are basically NEVER involved in major NASA press conferences) has worked on the formation of RSL sites through water (brine) flow in the past, and supposedly was working on that for his grad research as well.

After a bit more googling, this explains the reasoning in much better detail:
www.inverse.com/article/6450-what-s-behind-nasa-s-upcoming-mystery-announcement-about-mars

We will all most definitely be watching this press conference at work on Monday. Should be interesting!

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reginaphalange72 Full Member Posts: 2,056 Likes: 3,335	Significant Mars discovery announcement Sept 26, 2015 23:25:47 GMT -5 2curlydogs, pennypenny, and 5 more like this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by reginaphalange72 on Sept 26, 2015 23:25:47 GMT -5 Or it's totally MH370/aliens.
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josieposy Elder Posts: 15,709 Likes: 30,456	Significant Mars discovery announcement Sept 27, 2015 6:59:39 GMT -5 via the ProBoards App 2curlydogs, pennypenny, and 3 more like this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by josieposy on Sept 27, 2015 6:59:39 GMT -5 Sept 26, 2015 23:25:47 GMT -5 reginaphalange72 said: Or it's totally MH370/aliens. Please stay.
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