Nollemaster
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They won't be coming for like 200 years so we're good.
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NASA: Seasonal Water Flows on Mars
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They won't be coming for like 200 years so we're good.
I actually clicked that link and I just...wow...I mean stuff like this Electrostatic Grey Transition.
What a bunch of weird people.
Aztechnology
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"Look. BOOBIES! (.Y.)"
Spladam
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Lol
I'm betting the mystery that was solved was how Mars became "such a shit hole", more specifically, how it lost it's atmosphere, as we were actively studying that in the Rover missions.
Oh, and the answer is: Carbon dioxide lost to space through the upper atmosphere caused by the destabilization of the geomagnetic field due to multiple impacts of medium sized objects. You heard it here first.
John Dunbar
correct about everything
i hope it's a rock that sort of looks like a face. love those things.
Jason Frost
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What if we originally are Martians, our ancestors destroyed life on Mars with nuclear technology, but some survivors escaped the planet to live on another near one and it was Earth?
What if in the future, we repeat the same error and we go back to live again on Mars our home planet without knowing it?
What if we crash landed on Earth thanks to a malfunctioning Martian super weapon on our ship, and then have to destroy said super weapon after a long bloated journey filled with religious imagery and that's kinda rushed in the second half?
brandonh83
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Milly Osworth
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If they announce the annoucement, it can't be big.
benjipwns
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Aliens made them sign an intergalactic NDA with an embargo.
ultratruman
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Any evidence of extinguished life on Mars would be an ominous death knell for our own species. It would be a catastrope.
Jason Frost
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I like that idea, we could it The Mutant Chronicles.
I think they would have an announcement of an announcement. You're not going to post something like that on a website out of the blue. And you'd want lots of media to be present and stuff so you'd announce a big conference coming up. How else would you do it? Just sit in a room and do the reveal to noone?
They would probably title it differently though. Not "NASA to Announce Mars Mystery Solved". Because "we found traces of life on mars" is not a sollution to a mystery. Unless they announce it like "the trace amounts of methane we found come from microbes in the soil". Because the source of the methane has not been explained and so is a mystery. But I think they would title it differently in that case.
I'd love to be wrong.
Wait - isnt September 28th supposed to be the Apocalypse (revised from Sept 23)?
from wikipedia:
An apocalypse (Ancient Greek: ἀποκάλυψις apokálypsis, from ἀπό and καλύπτω meaning "uncovering"), translated literally from Greek, is a disclosure of knowledge, i.e., a lifting of the veil or revelation. In religious contexts it is usually a disclosure of something hidden.
from wikipedia:
An apocalypse (Ancient Greek: ἀποκάλυψις apokálypsis, from ἀπό and καλύπτω meaning "uncovering"), translated literally from Greek, is a disclosure of knowledge, i.e., a lifting of the veil or revelation. In religious contexts it is usually a disclosure of something hidden.
PartTimeWarrior
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Ayy lmao
FantasticMrFoxdie
Mumber
They really should just make some crazy shit up to get people interested in space programs again.
Human skeleton on Mars
Alien life on mars
Rover found an alien artifact that could change technology forever
Transformers
Mars actually has breathable oxygen air and fertile soil ready for the taking
Human skeleton on Mars
Alien life on mars
Rover found an alien artifact that could change technology forever
Transformers
Mars actually has breathable oxygen air and fertile soil ready for the taking
I thought the Mars One venture got that covered?
Blood Moon
, total lunar eclipse,
Is anyone still interested in that scam?
Ape Gone Insane
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I don't think they would even be the ones making the announcement. Seems like something the U.S. President would do in a big conference.
DerangedHermit
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Vigilant Walrus
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What if it actually is concrete evidence of alien life? Actual observable alien life!
Will it even be that big deal? Most people believe there is some life out there, and if its just like a small microb, then will people care?
Will it even be that big deal? Most people believe there is some life out there, and if its just like a small microb, then will people care?
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
That's a neat idea, but how do you explain the large trail of fossils that show us evolving over the millennia on Earth?
DrROBschiz
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Sentient life is what people REALLY care about
At least average Joes
Mars is certainly interesting to me personally but thats just because I am likely to see a human walk its surface in my lifetime
My understanding of Modern Physics has pretty much dashed my hopes of witnessing anything beyond that
Alien life, even if it's microscopic, will be one of the greatest discoveries in history of the mankind.
There's a whole lot we can learn about the origin of life, the possibility of life on other planets and stuff like the great filter that it's not even funny.
And that's before we get into philosophical and theological stuff.
I seriously doubt that it is though.
They wouldn't tell us for months.
maquiladora
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Yes? Every major press conference is announced in advance. How else would the press know when to show up to for a press conference if it isn't announced in advance?
The Shadow
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Mars ghost is real, and eats using a floating rock spoon.
Fenderputty
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It would probably be the greatest finding IMO.
Regulus Tera
Romanes Eunt Domus
I'd be ok with fossilised aliens.
Screaming Meat
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They found Jimmy Hoffa, right?
DrForester
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Such ranking are pretty arbitrary, but yeah, it would be up there.
Though again, I'm fairly certain that's not going to be what that's announcement is about, and yet I'm hyped.
PeskyToaster
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I like how the first few posts were futile attempts to dehype it. We already know it's aliens.
Icefire1424
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Unless this is an announcement that some alien species just photobombed the Mars rover, the consensus outside of the scientific community will likely be a resounding "meh."
Mad Season
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FelixOrion
Poet Centuriate
Quick Google search of the participants, such as Ojha Lujendra, who authored publications on Recurring Slope Lineae, makes me think it's probably going to be about that.
Recurring Slope Lineae
Mary Beth Wilhelm
Alfred McEwen
My number one guess is more in depth comprehension of what RSL is made of, since it is currently a "mystery".
More people need to play attention to this post, which kinda confirms what we've all been thinking.
Also, to add to your analysis, the journal Nature Geoscience is the one who put an embargo on the details until the conference, so that should be even more indication.
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
Quick Google search of the participants, such as Ojha Lujendra, who authored publications on Recurring Slope Lineae, makes me think it's probably going to be about that.
Recurring Slope Lineae
Mary Beth Wilhelm
Alfred McEwen
My number one guess is more in depth comprehension of what RSL is made of, since it is currently a "mystery".
Huh...that's interesting
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