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Martian south pole: water, not dry ice

Dam

best bootnote 

ever

Ian Bremner

IT angle 

**INSERT OBLIGATORY WHINE ABOUT LACK OF IT ANGLE HERE**

Anonymous Coward

IT angle 

Semi-autonomous space probes seems pretty IT to me!

Kane

Paris Hilton Angle 

So where is it? Hmm? I'm waiting.....

Anonymous Coward

Scientific gossip 

Stop all the scientific gossip on this website!

It belongs on Perez Hilton.com.

Jan Buys

Great... we won't be thirsty there 

Now can we finally colonize the bloody thing?

Luther Blissett

Was this really an "experiment"? 

Seems more like a hopeful calculation and a dodgy inference. After all, the number could be explained as a mixture of solid CO2 and stuff less dense than water. Less harmful, I suppose, than the Lysenko "experiment" and other social policy tarfus closer to home.

Tomorrow, folks, I am going to experimentally verify that 2+2=4 by thinking it. Yup, got my coat on already.

Anonymous Coward

Where did you buy your dictionary then? 

" [ ... ] the polar caps were thought to be more likely to contain CO2 than water, because the atmosphere of Mars is so arid. (On reflection, that sentence rather suggests the presence of frozen water [ ... ] "

Huh? Arid means no water. It doesn't suggest that there's frozen water to me - the Sahara is arid too, does that mean you expect to find ice-cubes in the middle of it?

Anonymous Coward

re: Where did you buy your dictionary then? 

If the water is all trapped as ice, it's not very likely to be in the air, thus making the air arid.

David

The Antarctica is the most arid continent 

The Antarctica is the most arid continent on earth.

Yet it contains most of earth's water.

Stephen Gray

@ Luther Blissett 

Nice to see you found other things to do after football Luther, however I must pull you up on "am going to experimentally verify that 2+2=4" We all know that 2+2=5 for extremely large values of 2

Ian Hunter

@ David 

Gorillas are primarily a bread eating species.

Yet they posses no baking skills.

Anonymous Coward

Generic Title 

Ice excellent! but im not going till they find the gin.

eddiewrenn

How many bathtubs is that? 

Or how many times could you drown Wales? We need some real numbers damn it"

Bill Fresher

@ The Antarctica is the most arid continent 

"The Antarctica is the most arid continent on earth.

Yet it contains most of earth's water."

I think you'll find the oceans contain most of the Earth's water.