Enough Water on Mars to Save Flint, Michigan

According to the latest reports from Mars, there's a deposit of more water than in Lake Superior.  (Science Daily:  Mars ice deposit holds as much water as Lake Superior)

This vertically exaggerated view shows scalloped depressions in a part of Mars where such textures prompted researchers to check for buried ice, using ground-penetrating radar aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona

Right, it doesn't look like water to me either but they say there's a whole lot of water underneath.

Elon Musk's plans for colonization of Mars have probably already been updated since it's not likely he will find a better place to start than this one.  The rest of the article goes on to try to understand the significance of the water to Mars' climate changes but our interest is in what's available because the colony will need a lot of it.

Finding that much water is a bit of a surprise for the Rockhouse since we have been watching Mars via the Rovers for years and it's always seemed as desiccated as Clinton's avaricious heart but now it's ready for water sports.

There's no sci fi extension of that since Elon Musk has already written it and that chapter has to complete before the next one can advanced.

Trump is no concern as he has decided to be inconsequential by stopping things and no-one in history ever accomplished anything substantive that way.  Just like crocus when it snows in the early Spring, progress will wait until it goes away and then start growing again.

Some think Reagan accomplished a lot by stopping thing but the more salient fact is he didn't build anything and, in fifty years, his name won't be anything more than another name on a multiple choice question in history class.

The builders are the ones we remember and that goes from the pyramids to FDR's New Deal.  The others are forgotten quickly and rightly so when they didn't offer anything except expensive rhetoric and corrupt, time-wasting considerations.

Of the politicians of this time, most will be forgotten but names like Elon Musk could be shining for many years to come.  Trying to colonize Mars may turn out to be a disaster but Musk will be remembered as the one who tried and no-one will remember which inconsequential politicians tried to stop him.

Note:  like Governor Rick Snyder, this water won't do anything to save the people of Flint, Michigan.