Groundwater Lake Formation Discovered on Mars

[Edwin]

NASA's Mars Recconnaisance Orbiter and the Compact Recconaisance Imaging Spectrometer discover crater which could have once been a groundwater lake based on minerals found within the crater.

http://www.astronomy.com/en/News-Observing/News/2013/01/Martian%20crater%20may%20once%20have%20held%20groundwater-fed%20lake.aspx

[Albert]

I regularly check out the Nasa website. I actually like the idea of space exploration. Even though Ben Klassen called it a "boon doggle." Many of our modern gadgets , micro-processors and the like owe their development to the space programmes etc. In a lot of ways space exploration is the proof of White racial Superiority if anything.

[Rev.Cambeul]

I actually like the idea of space exploration. Even though Ben Klassen called it a "boon doggle."

Same here. Not because of a Star Trekky kind of interest, but for reasons that benefit the White Race. There are only two ways that technology is able to advance at a rapid rate: War against other Whites (as no other race is able to compete with us on the same technological and industrial scale once we Whites are at total war) - and we don't want that ... again, and space exploration.

Not the boon doggle of visiting the moon just to get there first, take a few samples, play golf and bugger off. Useful things like exploring our Solar System for the purposes of acquiring minerals and who knows what, and in some instances the possibility of future Terra-Forming and colonisation.

Imagine the as yet to be invented technology required to strip-mine the moon, and how the technology alone required to do that should improve life on Earth - never mind the opportunity to cease the destruction of the natural environment here on Earth where it's needed.

@Cailen.

[Edwin]

Yeah, outer space is a goldmine of energy resources. At the moment people are developing probes to mine comets, what exactly I'm not sure.

[Br.IanVonTurpie]

How expensive would it be to establish a mining operation in space? This about the fuel costs involved in this venture. Hell, they are facing the possibility of the Nhullunbuy mines shutting because Rio Tinto wants the NT government to give them a supply of gas that is very hard to supply to them.  It is so easy for a town to go bankrupt just over something like that. Or if there is not enough demand for the minerals anymore people go jobless.

http://www.ntnews.com.au/article/2013/02/01/317182_ntnews.html

THE Chief Minister's last-minute bid to get gas for Gove has failed.
He was yesterday told by energy companies Santos and GDF that it was too late to ask for supplies from their projects off the Territory's west coast.

Executives listened politely to his plea - but told him firmly that exporting gas from Petrel, Tern and Bonaparte was "critical" to the success of the multibillion-dollar projects.

They said the NT Government had supported the ventures since they began in 2009 and had always known the gas would be shipped overseas, where it would fetch a much higher price than at home.

"Gas is not available for Gove," the executives said.

But Santos did offer to supply "as much gas as we can" from the Mereenie field in Central Australia.

And it said the company's vigorous exploration program was likely to open up gas fields that could supply Gove in the "next few years".

Mr Mills last night admitted he was now relying on the federal assistance to help find other gas supply options.

"Discussions today now cause us to look at Commowelath incentivisation for those that have gas available, but not able to be secured in the Northern Territory," he told Channel Nine.

"I remain hopeful that we can find a way through this, and I will continue working to achieve that end."

The gas is needed so that Pacific Aluminium can stop using expensive heavy oil as a power source for the bauxite mine and nearby town of Nhulunbuy.

Mr Mills said the company wanted 10 years of the Territory's 25-year supply of gas.