A Snowball's chance in Hell....

[Dartz]

Is apparently better than we thought

Ice has been discovered on Mercury. And it happens to be covered in dark material.

Life on Mercury, perhaps?
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[dark seraph]

Wait... Ice and covered in dark matter? o.O

[Dartz]

It's an 'organic' substance, most likely similar to tar or oil, or similar..... it's probably not 'life' as such, but the building blocks of life.
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[Dartz]

Or.... not. http://nasaupdatecenter.us/press.html is a hoax, apparently
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[Sweno]

The 'dark material' could very well be organic compounds carried there by the same things that deposited the ice: comets
More info can be found at a blog (Bad Astronomy) I trust. They have actually found some compelling evidence (it's not proof, but it's about as close as we can get without landing something there) for large amounts of ice on Mercury.
-Terry
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[robkelk]

Or.... not. http://nasaupdatecenter.us/press.html is a hoax, apparently

Maybe, maybe not... but http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/messe ... index.html has the same story, and that's the mission's official homepage.
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Rob Kelk
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them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

[Jorlem]

Or.... not. http://nasaupdatecenter.us/press.html is a hoax, apparently

Maybe, maybe not... but http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/messe ... index.html has the same story, and that's the mission's official homepage.

Wasn't the hoax page something along the lines of NASA finding plastic beads on Mars?
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