Waters of Mars

[BillWoodruff]

Sonnet, published under the CCCOPL (CodeProject Creative CopyLeft Open Poetic License)

NASA discovered that red Mars has waters;
I suspect its tears of aliens' daughters,
and, I wouldn't bet that Mars is all wet
since it hasn't quite been announced yet

And, if Mars' all chock full of moisture,
why not archaeobacteria in dank pastures?

But, for those who want to migrate there,
I suggest you take an arsenal to prepare
for whatever else hides in craters there

Take atomics, and rocket-launch grenades,
take deadly henbane and toxic nightshade,
take death-metal, rap, facebook, twitter

Take Boy-George, Bono, with Gary Glitter,
enough drugs to obliviate feeling bitter

«I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center» Kurt Vonnegut.

[den2k88]

REVERSE THE POLARITY OF THE NEUTRON FLOW! Oh, sorry, the whovian in me thought it was a Doctor Who reference :-O

GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++*      Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver "When you have eliminated the JavaScript, whatever remains must be an empty page." -- Mike Hankey

[phil o]

I read "Spiders from Mars", which reminds me of an excellent 70's album by Mr Bowie :)

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[Peter Rob nson]

Is that water safe for drinking?!?!

[BillWoodruff]

My artesian source says it tastes like salty kool-aid, and he gets it straight from the subterranean aquifer.

«I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center» Kurt Vonnegut.

[Lost User]

Ice and salt, who would have thunk it could be liquid in a cold environment? And how long would this liquid water exist?

Bastard Programmer from Hell :suss: If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^][](X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett)

[Weylyn Cadwell]

I would assume that's it's probably not safe to drink without a lot of purification, but I do not know enough about how science works to tell you.

[den2k88]

NO See[^]

GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++*      Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver "When you have eliminated the JavaScript, whatever remains must be an empty page." -- Mike Hankey