Groundbreaking new research reveals that Paul Verhoeven’s violent 1989 classic Total Recall is at least partially based in science. Specifically that while Mars does not harbor mutant hookers with three boobs or considerably grosser-looking mutants with psychic powers that grew out of the torso of a normal-looking guy and that’s how they hide, the Associated Press reports that data from the Inisght Rover mission reveals the possible presence of a massive underground reservoir that one scientist estimates could cover the whole planet with an ocean more than a mile deep.
Vashan Wright of the UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography spent years crunching the data collected by Insight’s seismometers and concluded that Marsquake readings indicate the presence of the water. Wright says the environment, which his data says is seven miles to 12 miles underground, could support life but should not be taken to mean there is life there currently.
While the article seems to indicate the water is liquid or soaked into the crust rather than frozen like the huge glacier seen in the Schwarzenegger actioner, there’s already some sunk cost on our end so this Wright guy better start figuring out where the ancient alien megastructure is buried.