This is huge: *current* liquid water on Mars.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

So? Why does anyone care if we go extinct? The universe will be just fine if we're no longer existent.

We're all the anyones.

[Unbeliever]

We may be the last of the anyones, but I don't seem to be able to work up a sweat over it.

[Baruch]

We're all the anyones.

You can go first ;-)

[Baruch]

Why terraform another planet when we could just terraform Earth? I think Neil De Grasse Tyson said that.

We are ... its called Global Warming.

[Baruch]

Every project manager knows there are 3 parts  to any task (Omnes tres projects habere partes, as Iulius might have not said).   Funding, time and quality.  You can set any 2 but not all 3 at once.  Managers are idiots who think that all 3 can be defined by fiat.

Excellent.

[Baruch]

Sounds like a question in a combined Wendys and McDonalds...

They mated and produced Burger King ;-)

[trdsf]

So? Why does anyone care if we go extinct? The universe will be just fine if we're no longer existent.

The universe doesn't care if we go extinct or not, but I do!  I have show tickets for October!

[Hydra009]

So? Why does anyone care if we go extinct? The universe will be just fine if we're no longer existent.

It would be very unfortunate for our pets.  :(

Plus, I'm kinda hoping that mankind doesn't rise from the muck merely to argue and war and trash up the place before quickly settling back again in a permanent state of death.  Too much of a downer ending to that tale.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

I hope there are enough humans who don't give up easily to save the rest.

[Baruch]

I hope there are enough humans who don't give up easily to save the rest.

Be the change.

[Unbeliever]

The universe doesn't care if we go extinct or not, but I do!  I have show tickets for October!

Well, I doubt we'll go extinct before October, so you should be good to go. I'd give us at least another year or so.

[SoldierofFortune]

It's under the southern polar ice cap.

Ladies and gentlemen, we have a native Martian habitat.  Whether anything's in it remains to be seen, but dayamn.

I dont think any organism will be found on Mars. The works on terraforming mars is on progress.
Maybe ıt has ıts own atmoshfer and the oxygen to be inhaled to be able to promoto life to its habitants: humans!...

[Unbeliever]

I think Mars will need more than just water and an atmosphere for humans to live there, it also needs an intact biosphere, and that will take a lot of time to install. We must have many of the microbes, fungi and such that makes life on Earth possible. Maybe they can be engineered to grow quickly in that environment, though.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

I think Mars will need more than just water and an atmosphere for humans to live there, it also needs an intact biosphere, and that will take a lot of time to install. We must have many of the microbes, fungi and such that makes life on Earth possible. Maybe they can be engineered to grow quickly in that environment, though.

Marc Watney got crops going with recycled shit.

[Baruch]

I think Mars will need more than just water and an atmosphere for humans to live there, it also needs an intact biosphere, and that will take a lot of time to install. We must have many of the microbes, fungi and such that makes life on Earth possible. Maybe they can be engineered to grow quickly in that environment, though.

I have visited this one ...

http://biosphere2.org