Is anyone really amazed that we found something outside of out planet? It was, in fact, just a matter of time. According to some by-law written in 1967 or something, that Mars Rover is not supposed to go close to this water. It is about 40-50 km away from where it is right now, but with the amount of microbes and debris the Rover may have picked up in it's travels, we cannot risk contamination. I'm mot opposed to this really, but it is a fact that we need to get a sample of this water using some sort of aseptic technique. This means we have to get another grant to build something that can make the trip again and have something, be it some kind of needle or container to withdraw some of this water, then somehow make it back to Earth. Sounds easy, eh?
In today's world when the biggest news of the day is that the pope had a meeting with some nitwit that denied to give a marriage license to some same sex couple, it is imperative that we find something else to strive toward. Imagine we get a sample of this water and find that there are microbes that exist in it that also exist here. Wouldn't that throw everything we "know" on it's ear? I looked on the web and saw that others have already had this idea, although I just came up with it myself a couple days ago. This would kind of work towards a hypothesis that perhaps a bunch of spores spread out because of something that happened billions of years ago, thus some landed here and the Earth's natural flora supported it until it thrived, whereas the Martian surface did not have the resources for these things to evolve. For those that know anything about Archea, which usually are extremophiles that live in alkali water, geysers, ice and volcanos, you know these things can live anywhere. Analog building blocks of life.
Anyhoo, that's all I'm going to mention today, I bid anyone who reads this peace, and have a good day.
James
