Life found on Mars?!

[onyx39]

Morningside said:

greygoose said:

I hope we have a plan to kill them before they invade......

Nah, sounds like a million to one.

But still they'(ll) come!

[HD Adam]

I welcome our new Overlords

[Eric Mc]

onyx39 said:

Morningside said:

greygoose said:

I hope we have a plan to kill them before they invade......

Nah, sounds like a million to one.

But still they'(ll) come!

Honestly - some PHers are like a bunch of Pavlovian dogs.

Talk about conditioned responses.

(Love the album though )

[hollydog]

Wow. Good job our governments getting immigration under control.

[MrBrightSi]

onyx39 said:

Morningside said:

greygoose said:

I hope we have a plan to kill them before they invade......

Nah, sounds like a million to one.

But still they'(ll) come!

Great, guitar rifts and synthesizer warbling.

Thanks guys.

[wolfracesonic]

'In the hundred years since the Victoria Cross was created for valour and extreme courage beyond that normally expected of the British soldier in face of the enemy only 1344 have been awarded. Eleven of these were won by the defenders of the mission station at Rorke's Drift............' err, wait a minute, sorry, wrong Richard Burton voiceover..........

[anonymous-user]

The headline includes 'might' and 'possibly' so life hasn't been found at all. Nonsense yet again..

[Johnnytheboy]

To my mind it translates as "NASA says 'please can we have some more money'"

[Sheets Tabuer]

Johnnytheboy said:

To my mind it translates as "NASA says 'please can we have some more money'"

They got more than they asked for this year.

Spikes in methane mean it's either being released by tectonic activity, generated by life or by ultra violet light on organic compounds.

We know there isn't any tectonic activity and the way methane is broken down by UV light we know this is a very local event, I.E something close to the rover is producing methane.

[KareemK]

It's certainly intriguing.

[Eric Mc]

Sheets Tabuer said:

They got more than they asked for this year.

Spikes in methane mean it's either being released by tectonic activity, generated by life or by ultra violet light on organic compounds.

We know there isn't any tectonic activity and the way methane is broken down by UV light we know this is a very local event, I.E something close to the rover is producing methane.

I bet earlier Earth probes have contaminated Mars by now.

[Vipers]

greygoose said:

I hope we have a plan to kill them before they invade......

And before they come here and claim benifits

[Sheets Tabuer]

Eric Mc said:

I bet earlier Earth probes have contaminated Mars by now.

Wouldn't be surprised, they failed to clean this rover properly, the threshold for microbes is 300,000 per surface..

So loads then.

[KareemK]

Sheets Tabuer said:

Eric Mc said:

I bet earlier Earth probes have contaminated Mars by now.

Wouldn't be surprised, they failed to clean this rover properly, the threshold for microbes is 300,000 per surface..

So loads then.

They'll have been killed off on entry and if not then the extreme habitat and exposure to radiation will certainly do for those earth based critters.

[Eric Mc]

We just don't know. Some earth microbes have survived in very inhospitable locations. Some of the earliest probes were not that well sterilised. I'm thinking of the Mars 3 lander that soft landed on Mars back in 1973. Although it landed safely, it failed to return any meaningful data.

[Sheets Tabuer]

Bacteria and DNA has survived re-entry to Earth, every extreme place they have looked for life on earth (volcanoes, undersea vents, miles under ground and salt lakes) have yielded life, if it can live there it can live on mars.

[Vipers]

Eric Mc said:

We just don't know. Some earth microbes have survived in very inhospitable locations. Some of the earliest probes were not that well sterilised. I'm thinking of the Mars 3 lander that soft landed on Mars back in 1973. Although it landed safely, it failed to return any meaningful data.

I am sure it's worth the zillion $$$$$$$$$$$$ to find out there is bugger all up there.

[Eric Mc]

Exploring other worlds is not just about looking for life - although that is what the media always emphasise.

It's about "finding things out" - as Carl Sagan would say.

[LordGrover]

... which leads to yet more questions.

[HOGEPH]

It's a god-awful small affair...