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Dunno if anyone has been keeping up to date with the latest on the Mars situation, but it has been proven that there are huge ice deposits and some forms of water (brine is suspected) still running freely on the surface of the Red Planet.
Water of some kind is believed to be key to any sort of known lifeform, and since it is present on Mars, there is a possibility, maybe 100 to one rather than billions to one, that life exists/existed on Mars.
And what does it imply for the vast universe around us if Mars contains life? If two planets in the same solar system are capable of supporting life of some kind, surely planets in other solar systems must be capable of supporting life also?
A probe of sorts will land on Mars around about Christmas and try to bring back soil samples from sites which could harbour life of some sort. If anything comes back from that mission, even as small as some bacteria, or (optimistically) something composed of more than a single cell, it will be revolutionary.
Another launch is planned for 2009, which is quite some way off, and should manage better technology and be able to tell us even more.
To think that by 2010 we could have proof of life on another world. Obviously we may also know nothing by then, but there is a chance, however small, that we are not alone. Not even in our own solar system...
Water of some kind is believed to be key to any sort of known lifeform, and since it is present on Mars, there is a possibility, maybe 100 to one rather than billions to one, that life exists/existed on Mars.
And what does it imply for the vast universe around us if Mars contains life? If two planets in the same solar system are capable of supporting life of some kind, surely planets in other solar systems must be capable of supporting life also?
A probe of sorts will land on Mars around about Christmas and try to bring back soil samples from sites which could harbour life of some sort. If anything comes back from that mission, even as small as some bacteria, or (optimistically) something composed of more than a single cell, it will be revolutionary.
Another launch is planned for 2009, which is quite some way off, and should manage better technology and be able to tell us even more.
To think that by 2010 we could have proof of life on another world. Obviously we may also know nothing by then, but there is a chance, however small, that we are not alone. Not even in our own solar system...
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I reckon that the chances of anything coming from Mars is a million to one, or so they say.
The likelihood of finding life on Mars is remote according to Arthur C Clarke, as it is too far from the Sun to support viable organisms. Our Earth is at the exact distance (and orbit path) from the Sun to ensure that our atmosphere is able to constitute gases that can sustain life, and also that the temperature of the planet is neither too cold or too hot.
We are a Cosmological absurdity, just like the Universe that created us.
The likelihood of finding life on Mars is remote according to Arthur C Clarke, as it is too far from the Sun to support viable organisms. Our Earth is at the exact distance (and orbit path) from the Sun to ensure that our atmosphere is able to constitute gases that can sustain life, and also that the temperature of the planet is neither too cold or too hot.
We are a Cosmological absurdity, just like the Universe that created us.
cookie monster wrote:
> Wouldn't it be ironic if we brought back some kind of flesh eating
> bacteria.
That being the point in why the US are in doubt about doing it.
Normal rock from Mars or what-have-yer would have gone through our atmosphere killing all bacteria on it.
Coming from Mars it wouldn't have been steralised like this and it could infect people, disrupt our ecosystems and at worst cause a huge epidemic.
Same reason wite us going to Mars. If there is life, we don't know the effects that our bacteria being on their planet will have.
It's all about bacteria.
> Wouldn't it be ironic if we brought back some kind of flesh eating
> bacteria.
That being the point in why the US are in doubt about doing it.
Normal rock from Mars or what-have-yer would have gone through our atmosphere killing all bacteria on it.
Coming from Mars it wouldn't have been steralised like this and it could infect people, disrupt our ecosystems and at worst cause a huge epidemic.
Same reason wite us going to Mars. If there is life, we don't know the effects that our bacteria being on their planet will have.
It's all about bacteria.
Jive wrote:
> I'd have thought that anything that could survive in the Martian
> atmosphere would be able to survive here. Isn't the Martian
> atmoshpere alot more hostile than here?
Well yes, but anything that is alive there will be alive due to the fact that it finds that kind of atmosphere favourable. Since Earth atmosphere is vastly different, it is unlikely that anything from Mars could adapt quickly enough to survive.
> I'd have thought that anything that could survive in the Martian
> atmosphere would be able to survive here. Isn't the Martian
> atmoshpere alot more hostile than here?
Well yes, but anything that is alive there will be alive due to the fact that it finds that kind of atmosphere favourable. Since Earth atmosphere is vastly different, it is unlikely that anything from Mars could adapt quickly enough to survive.
I'd have thought that anything that could survive in the Martian atmosphere would be able to survive here. Isn't the Martian atmoshpere alot more hostile than here?
Insane Bartender wrote:
> heh. Unlikely. Besides, anything we bring back is highly unlikely to
> be able to survive in our atmosphere.
I dont know about that, a virus would have a decent shot.
> heh. Unlikely. Besides, anything we bring back is highly unlikely to
> be able to survive in our atmosphere.
I dont know about that, a virus would have a decent shot.
Insane Bartender wrote:
> And then they will rain down death and hellfire on an unsuspecting
> earth...
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> And then they will rain down death and hellfire on an unsuspecting
> earth...
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Where do I sign up?
heh. Unlikely. Besides, anything we bring back is highly unlikely to be able to survive in our atmosphere.
Wouldn't it be ironic if we brought back some kind of flesh eating bacteria.
The day will come when the earth is insufficient to provide us with what we need. When that day comes, we will need alternatives.
If Mars already has the infrastructure to support life, we may someday need to make use of it.
Besides. Ice = water = possible life.
In a few years we could have discovered martians. Real Martians.
And then they will rain down death and hellfire on an unsuspecting earth...
If Mars already has the infrastructure to support life, we may someday need to make use of it.
Besides. Ice = water = possible life.
In a few years we could have discovered martians. Real Martians.
And then they will rain down death and hellfire on an unsuspecting earth...
I've got a blow-up alien that I can put in my freezer if you like?
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