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Re:Liquid water 'lake' revealed on Mars by pc86 on Wednesday July 25, 2018 @02:11PM (#17611422)
This is the cosmic equivalent of "laboratories of democracy"[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laboratories_of_democracy

Re:Liquid water 'lake' revealed on Mars by wytian on Thursday July 26, 2018 @10:08AM (#17617625)
The problem I see with this is that each independent laboratory cannot be easily configured to the same initial conditions. Especially not one on Mars and one on Earth. It would take a tremendous effort to turn Mars into Earth and then use it in parallel to carry out experiments. If the two laboratories are vastly different, comparisons between the two won't have much backing.