Talk:Ethan II's Story/@comment-76.104.129.6-20150703084916

Story text with contract #3, please don't get on me for nit picking, Someone didn't do there homework here, The fact it there's a lot of water on Mars and it's fairly easy to get at. Just requires energy. It's locked up in the soil. If you were on Mars, in your nice cozy little habitation module, and brought in a pound of the soil in a metal container it would seem to be dry, even at 65 deg F and one atmosphere of pressure. But of you put that container on a heating element and brought it up to about 130 F or roughly 50 C the water would start to release from the soil. You could strain out maybe a cup, ~210 ml of water. Of yourse you would want to filter that and then distill it before it was potable.