hello,

my personal opinion is that there was once life on Mars. This might sound strange but hey it is my opinion after all... anyways i think this because of the strange features of 'the red planet'

first of all the patterns on the surface, yes i know this could be caused by the high winds that travel round the planets surface.. but i have read about NASA scientists that have said that the patterns are actually water... i mean there was once water on the planet but for some strange and unexplainable reason the water dried up and left these unusal patterns in the surface.

another thought that has just run threw my mind is that in another 100 years or so use humans that inhabit this planet could live on mars it maybe possible maybe not..

For humans to live on mars they will either have to terraform the planet to make it habital. which takes a very long time.

Or Geneticly Engineer humans sometime in the future to make mars a BIT more habitable. I would assume that Mars is An extremely likely candidate for a future colonization. But we may find more Earth like planets and with future technology, getting to these planets mabey somewhat quicker than now.

If scientists didnt think there could of seriously been life on mars. They wouldnt of sent these Robots to look for life... So there must be some potential. The next rover will have better tools to find out, But for the ultimate truth I think we may need humans to go to mars.

We definitly need a faster spaceships to get there quicker tho. Its a long jouney for passengers that WILL be awake the whole time because we havnt advanced enough in Science to enable some sort of sleep state for months.

The question is, will we survive that long. And will it matter at all if we
colonize another planet?

Will we survive? I hope we do. Will it matter if we colonize another planet? I think it might. But it will not matter at all if we as a species don't stop killing ourselves. I would love to go to mars or another planet.

Yeah i think there was life on all planets thats all i have to state.

My personal opinion is that we (or an ancestral thread) may have actually lived on Mars at one time and then came here to avoid what actually happened there.

I read "The Mars Mystery" by Robert Bauval and the entire planet actually is one large catastrophe zone.

The most revealing eveidence is what scientists call the Tharsis bulge. Imagine striking an orange so hard that the other side bulges out and blows the rind right off that area. If memory serves that feature comprises 40 percent of the ancient Martian surface, where the crust was blown right off. At some points it is 4 miles thick.

I think there is life on Mars (at least Microbial) and has always been there. The other reply was right, we seem obsessed with finding it on Mars for some reason. makes you wonder what they really know.

There are quite a few web sites on the subject of past civilization on mars and our own moon.

I saw a show a few years back about the space sail that nasa is coming up with. It's a spaceship that only uses fuel to get out of orbit, and then uses solar winds and a gigantic sail to carry it through space. They say it will be much faster than current spaceships, and it will use much less fuel. I think it is extremely possible that there is another earth-like planet out there, but we won't get there before this world ends.

I think it is extremely possible that there is another earth-like planet out there, but we won't get there before this world ends.


My thoughts exactly.
But I still want to go.

Laws of probability suggests that there is life out there.
Science has its limitations. Especially in the minds of stubborn atheist scientists. I believe that there is and/or was life on all planets.
Either the product of God, or evolution.

We have still yet to discover the massive variety of conditions in which
life can exist. Some bacteria can live without light and water... hmmm.

I fully agree, friend Sanidia Vortez.
But I will be skeptical on termes of complex life until there is the discovery of complex remains.
But it is possible that the conditions on ancient mars weren't well for fossilisation. But if there was water, there was sediment. And if there was sediment, then there should be fossils. But Conditions could still have been negative.

I could believe that there was once life on Mars, after all, people say that it was once like Earth, but because it isn't in our solar system's "comfort zone" it became the planet we see now.

Yes I believe that there was once life on Mars. Billions of years ago.

The four legged kind and the microscopic kind...though not the walking around talking kind.

If there was actually a civilization you would think that they would leave some small sign of their existence behind. Which is why I don't believe that there was.

Well, I agree to an extent...I mean, if there was a humanoid civilization living on Mars millions or billions of years ago then due to the climate and winds it would be difficult to find traces...look how far beneath the earth dinosaur fossils can be found.

You make a very good point.

For some good mars anomalies go to:
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(I hope I did the link right)