SALT WATER ON MARS

Scientists are reporting that Mars appears to have not only frozen water but flowing streams of salty water, at least in the summertime. They say their latest observations “strongly support” the longtime theory that salt water flows down certain Martian slopes each summer. These dark, narrow streaks tend to appear and grow during the warmest Martian months, and fade the rest of the year. Salt lowers the freezing point of water, and scientists say that would explain these seasonal flows. Because water is essential to life, Monday’s findings improve the chances life may have once existed on Mars, or still does.
* Yeah, yeah, but these flowing streams of water – could you tube ride them?
* Cool! We’re one step closer to bringing back an alien microbe that kills everything!
* So … we already knew that Mars has polar caps, and we already knew they melt in the summer, and so now they’re saying the water can roll down a hill. Am I wrong in thinking this announcement calls for a big “DUH!”?
* Salt water on Mars are just the leftover tears of Martians after Martian global warming.
* Global warming on Mars? That’s nuts. Everyone knows the Martians died in a nuclear war that ruined their planet.
* And hello? That’s when they seeded earth.
* I love how NASA gives us these little tidbits so they can pretend they’re sharing what they really know.
* Water is essential to life? Wow, way to bring the science.
* Of course, I always hear the phrase, “as we know it” with these claims. So water is essential to bring life as we know it.