is / was there life on Mars ?? well we may find out soon

[oldpink]

What is the great Martian mystery finding?

[Im-a-Ridah]

Saw this a day or two ago, not much detail available,

[GhostRider]

They always spout this shite to drum up interest, I think last time it was "scientists confirm that there might be, possibly, small chance, not really sure, but COULD be... that there was/is...water on mars....maybe....we don't really know, we'll need to send another robot up there, in about 25 years...at the cost of 3 trillion... to get a better idea of how maybe it might be, or have been there....possibly".

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[Rogerborg]

NASA can officially get fucked. Science by press release - or in this case, faux leak press teaser - is abhorrent. It's the worst of what the Far East does, spunking out fake results to get next quarter's funding.

It'll just be some rock that's likely to be formed under water, oooh, Mars had liquid water, stop the presses.
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[Frost]

I once had a guy who worked on Beagle 2 tell me on the condition of total secrecy that they had found it on the surface of mars. Had they fuck.

[CaNsA]

I reckon.....


https://i.imgur.com/cnSxm.jpg

[Im-a-Ridah]

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[Kris]

[Frost]

[Flatbadger]

[oldpink]

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[Ariel Badger]

[oldpink]

personally I hope they find life / signs of it outside earth
it would put an end to all those religions that say god created earth with no mention of mars
and shake up our thoughts of being the only intelligent lifeform in the universe so superior
lets see the Vatican explain that one
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[andym]

Of all the millions... billions even... of other galaxies out there... we on this scabby little spec of dirt are the only life forms in the WHOLE universe.... yeah right.

Say for talking sake life actually started on Pluto.... and slowly over billions and billions of years that life form has been moving closer to the sun and evolving, and maybe a couple of billion years from now scientists go through all this claiming to have found evidence of life on whatever they call Earth then.

Maybe by then they will have invented the technology that isn't going to cost half a planets economy to say for certain that it's a rock (with strange lighting and shadows) and not a possible face

[T0MMY]

Don't know anything about this beyond the links in this thread but I daresay the only thing they could find on Mars that could be described as "earth shattering" would have to be evidence of life having existed there so I'll be interested to hear where this goes.

Not sure it would be that shattering though. The religious will just incorporate it into biblical interpretation like they have had to do with the age of the earth.

It wouldn't be that shattering for us science dweebs either really. I suspect the vast majority are quite comfortable with the idea that life must exist elsewhere in the universe. I would find it more astonishing if it didn't frankly; that would be truly earth shattering but is not something we could ever prove.

I think if you truly follow the scientific explanation for life, rather than the religious one, you basically must believe life will exist elsewhere.
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[pinkyfloyd]

Personally I think at one time Mars could have supported life (Atmosphere, water etc) but it never did. The mix of ingredients that Earth has are so rare that I dont think Mars could ever have had life.

That said, I'm of the belief that to think Earth is the only planet in the universe to support and sustain life is a very selfish notion. When you think about the amount of galaxies out there with the amount of stars there has to be some life out there somewhere.

Will we ever get to meet them? Nope. It would take us lightyears just to get out of our galaxy, using that formula it would take an alien race light years to get to ours. I dont think they will bother. Not because we are insignificant but simply because the logistics are a pain in the arse and not worth the effort.
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[Knightsy]

There was but...

https://theperilsofpalins.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/curiosity.jpg
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[karoshi]

https://www.speshul.org/random/marsAtAt.jpg

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[Rogerborg]

I'm confident that there are other complex self replicating entities out there. So, where are they?

I expect that there's organic life, and there's whatever is keeping that organic life very quiet.

Personally I'd rather that we hushed up and didn't broadcast our presence to the galaxy. We're living on primo real estate, and we're both delicious and nutritious.

We're literally betting the species on the assumption that whatever is out there among the stars is benign, or sentient. That just beggars belief.
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