Earlier today, NASA confirmed that they’ve found water on Mars, stoking speculation that one day we might find life there — albeit not intelligent life.
The finding isn’t wholly unexpected. We’ve known for a while that Mars used to have water. There’s even a not-too-absurd theory that life on Earth was “seeded” from earlier life on Mars. NASA’s announcement simply confirmed that, while the planet is now almost entirely barren, some water remains.
But don’t tell that to Rush Limbaugh.
As he advised his audience:
They’re just making up the amount of ice in the North and South Poles, they’re making up the temperatures, they’re lying and making up false charts and so forth. So what’s to stop them from making up something that happened on Mars that will help advance their left-wing agenda on this planet?
And why not be skeptical? It’s not as if NASA hasn’t explained how they found the water using, you know, science. From CNN:
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NASA researchers using an imager aboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter confirmed the watery flows by looking at light waves returned from seasonal dark streaks on the surface, long suspected to be associated with liquid water.
The investigation showed the streaks absorb light at specific wavelengths associated with chemicals known to pull water from the Martian atmosphere in a process known as deliquescence, said Georgia Tech doctoral student Lujendra Ojha, who first discovered the streaks while still an undergraduate student at the University of Arizona in 2011.
Light waves? Chemicals? Atmosphere? Deliquescence? Those are just words. Rush Limbaugh deals in cold hard facts. And there is no fact colder and harder than NASA being a bunch of liberal stooges who just want to get their hands on more liberal government monies for all of their spooky, scary liberal projects.
Gosh, when will we just WAKE UP, people?
