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[LordBaal]

Oh is possible to ship anything living, the challenge would be to keep it that way.

[Egan_BW]

Could always just include some stuff to turn the formerly-living things back to life once the acceleration is over.

[Max™]

Yeah, but we might need to watch out for the Shrike if we start down that route.

[Starver]

Bean went, and now gone.

(Haven't seen this mentioned elsewhere around these parts, though it's been talked about elsewhere for several hours now, so making note of it.)

[Lunardog15]

SPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE -SPACE CORE

[martinuzz]

Newly analyzed data from Curiosity makes it more probable that life could have been present on Mars in the past, or still is deep down.
https://www.volkskrant.nl/wetenschap/op-mars-wemelt-het-van-de-aanwijzingen-voor-leven~bdd18fc5/

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/06/nasa-rover-hits-organic-pay-dirt-mars

http://science.sciencemag.org/content/360/6393/1093

http://science.sciencemag.org/content/360/6393/1096
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/360/6393/1068

Also, hey, no paywall on Science Magazine? I can click the view full text button and it actually gives me the full texts. Awesome.

[Starver]

Rubbish satellite shoved out the door.

[Starver]

(No point edit-adding this different information onto my prior post.)

Rover dig! Rover fetch! Rocket back!

And Ewoks ahoy!

[Starver]

And, because a necro-edit wouldn't get seen, liquid water currently on Mars? (EU-friendly link, because I haven't yet decided whether NPR are protesting the GDPR or just scared of it and still trying to cover themselves.)

(And now a BBC link.)

[Karnewarrior]

Didn't they find liquid water on Mars, it was just that it was full of toxic salts or something? I thought that we found that when we were looking into those weird moving lines on the surface - they were subsurface flows of toxic water.

[Teneb]

Yeah, pure water would be just regular ice. It's the same deal for, say, Ceres, that has an ocean under it's surface... mixed with ammonia. Pretty much any water farther away from the Sun than Earth is either solid or mixed with something. I think Europa's an exception due to the tidal forces and radiation of Jupiter.

[Starver]

From the article:

The water in the Martian underground lake is probably salty, otherwise it would freeze solid, even deep in the ground, Stofan says. And the salts are mostly likely made up of something called perchlorates, "which are very toxic to life here on Earth. But on Mars, who knows?"

But it's still not entirely expected and therefore worthy of reporting. By the scientists, that is, rather than me.

[Reelya]

Didn't they find liquid water on Mars, it was just that it was full of toxic salts or something? I thought that we found that when we were looking into those weird moving lines on the surface - they were subsurface flows of toxic water.

The main new thing is the scale of this liquid water deposit. It's about 20 km across, and 1.5 km deep. It stays liquid partly due to salts, but also due to the pressure of the ice cap from above.

[Egan_BW]

We should drill down and dump a bunch of extremophiles down there, for science.

[Dorsidwarf]

We should drill down and dump a bunch of extremophiles down there, for science.

“Being unable to find Martians already existing, we decided to make our own.”