With an economy in the pan, and global commodity prices at historic highs (not to mention the political problems of policing an oil-dependent world) natural resource discovery is an inviting systemic innovation.

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Industry specific web crawlers or vulnerability discovery bots, network scans, and resource exhaustion attacks against web servers are rampant.

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Freely available data from the US Government is an important national resource, serving as fuel for entrepreneurship, innovation, scientific discovery, and other public benefits.

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However, as Michael Meyer suggests, the discovery does raise many questions, including whether the source and abundance of water could serve as a resource in future missions to explore Mars.

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