NASA finds water on Mars

[Renatus]

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap050401.html

Actualy for a real news report heres somthing straight off the google frontpage from yesterday.

http://www.google.com/intl/en/landing/cadie/index.html
Introducing CADIE
Research group switches on world's first "artificial intelligence" tasked-array system.
For several years now a small research group has been working on some challenging problems in the areas of neural networking, natural language and autonomous problem-solving. Last fall this group achieved a significant breakthrough: a powerful new technique for solving reinforcement learning problems, resulting in the first functional global-scale neuro-evolutionary learning cluster.

Since then progress has been rapid, and tonight we're pleased to announce that just moments ago, the world's first Cognitive Autoheuristic Distributed-Intelligence Entity (CADIE) was switched on and began performing some initial functions. It's an exciting moment that we're determined to build upon by coming to understand more fully what CADIE's emergence might mean, for Google and for our users. So although CADIE technology will be rolled out with the caution befitting any advance of this magnitude, in the months to come users can expect to notice her influence on various google.com properties. Earlier today, for instance, CADIE deduced from a quick scan of the visual segment of the social web a set of online design principles from which she derived this intriguing homepage.

These are merely the first steps onto what will doubtless prove a long and difficult road. Considerable bugs remain in CADIE'S programming, and considerable development clearly is called for. But we can't imagine a more important journey for Google to have undertaken.

For more information about CADIE see this monograph, and follow CADIE's progress via her YouTube channel and blog.

[Alatariel]

Neato.
I always thought Mars kind of looked like an Earth without oceans....kind of if Earth died.

[Renatus]

The water on mars joke works better these days than it did in 05 I think since people think we are soo close to it now.

Please post links to other april fools jokes for this year in this thread.

[Renatus]

This just in, Newgrounds has been taken over by china. http://www.newgrounds.com/ Please go to the chatroom on there so we can organize a resistance to this.

[Renatus]

Youtube has a brand new video layout. You better know where youtube is, because I'm not linking you!!

Levar Burton has bought Smosh http://www.smosh.com/

[Renatus]

Think Geek has released a new line of products. http://www.thinkgeek.com/

[Man In Room 5]

Originally Posted by Alatariel

Neato.
I always thought Mars kind of looked like an Earth without oceans....kind of if Earth died.

Actually, from what I understand, that is exactly what happened. I've read more than one article saying that Earth's greenhouse effect will eventually give us an atmosphere much like Mar's if we don't fix the problem....which leads scientists to wonder if Mar's atmosphere was ever once like Earth's. Sadly, I didn't save those articles to cite them correctly. I read them over 15 years ago.