Life found on Mars?!
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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/nasa-fin...
Article:
Evidence of life on Mars could have been found by Nasa's Curiosity Rover.
One of the instruments on the robot found mysterious spikes of methane that cannot easily be explained by geology or other theories. Scientists can’t be sure what is causing the spikes, but it is possible that it could be very small, bacteria-like living organisms.
If the gas is coming from living, breathing microbes then it would mark one of the biggest discoveries in history. On Earth, 95% of methane comes from microbial organisms.
Article:
Evidence of life on Mars could have been found by Nasa's Curiosity Rover.
One of the instruments on the robot found mysterious spikes of methane that cannot easily be explained by geology or other theories. Scientists can’t be sure what is causing the spikes, but it is possible that it could be very small, bacteria-like living organisms.
If the gas is coming from living, breathing microbes then it would mark one of the biggest discoveries in history. On Earth, 95% of methane comes from microbial organisms.
Vipers said:
Our sun supports life, there are over two million stars we know of so far, and you think we are the only planet with life on? Interesting.
http://www.rssd.esa.int/index.php?project=HIPPARCO...
Not that I think it will be proven in our lifetime, so your bet is safe me thinks. In fact we may never ever find out.
Two million stars? There are billions of them!http://www.rssd.esa.int/index.php?project=HIPPARCO...
Not that I think it will be proven in our lifetime, so your bet is safe me thinks. In fact we may never ever find out.
The trick would be to find another habitable planet before we burn this one, or its resources, up.
Then again, it will be academic to most people. There are some 7 billion people on earth. If we found a new habitable planetary home soon, how many of us would be going? At best a handful.
Which kind of begs the question, what are we doing it for?
Is the Earth's human population as a whole some kind of multi-celled life form that must seek to reproduce itself before it dies? So that its basic 'DNA' - if not its cells themselves - survive?
With this space exploration malarkey, is humanity just creating an escape pod for a few of the brightest members of the elite?
Then again, it will be academic to most people. There are some 7 billion people on earth. If we found a new habitable planetary home soon, how many of us would be going? At best a handful.
Which kind of begs the question, what are we doing it for?
Is the Earth's human population as a whole some kind of multi-celled life form that must seek to reproduce itself before it dies? So that its basic 'DNA' - if not its cells themselves - survive?
With this space exploration malarkey, is humanity just creating an escape pod for a few of the brightest members of the elite?
Edited by Ayahuasca on Thursday 18th December 18:55
Thankyou4calling said:
I'm a serious person and i'm saying there is no other life out there.
If anybody proves beyond reasonable doubt in my lifetime that there is, I will happily put all my estate in their name.
Very, very foolish words, man. If anybody proves beyond reasonable doubt in my lifetime that there is, I will happily put all my estate in their name.
If this methane is proven to have come from Martian bacteria, etc you will be destitute.
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