Bizarro Posted March 1, 2004 #1 Share Posted March 1, 2004 Mars: A Water World? Evidence Mounts, But Scientists Remain Tight-Lipped By Leonard David Senior Space Writer posted: 01:00 pm ET 29 February 2004 PASADENA, California -- Evidence that suggests Mars was once a water-rich world is mounting as scientists scrutinize data from the Mars Exploration rover, Opportunity, busily at work in a small crater at Meridiani Planum. That information may well be leading to a biological bombshell of a finding that the red planet has been, and could well be now, an extraterrestrial home for life. There is a palpable buzz here at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California that something wonderful is about to happen in the exploration of Mars. LINK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bizarro Posted March 1, 2004 Author #2 Share Posted March 1, 2004 now this is interesting reading. something big is about to come out of these rovers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doomgirl Posted March 1, 2004 #3 Share Posted March 1, 2004 NASA is going to get one hell of a shock if they find huminoid life sitting around playing in a pool Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+joc Posted March 1, 2004 #4 Share Posted March 1, 2004 *shows how one can turn any thread into a religious or political debate* Perhaps when the Bible says that God gathered all the water into one place....it means exactly that...ALL of the water....perhaps he scooped up all the water from Mars (and maybe Venus as well) to supply Earth with the water it needed. If the more civilized countries take a trip to Mars together...will the less civilized third world countries be jealous and demand some attention through perilous means? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gazz Posted March 1, 2004 #5 Share Posted March 1, 2004 wow! Bizarro! Nice Post! So do you think if they do find life it will be only microbial or something more advanced? These are amazing times we live in aren't they? Gazz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC09 Posted March 1, 2004 #6 Share Posted March 1, 2004 That's so damn cool! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erikl Posted March 1, 2004 #7 Share Posted March 1, 2004 NASA is going to get one hell of a shock if they find huminoid life sitting around playing in a pool Sorry to dissapoint everyone who hopes to find Humanoid life forms in space - that won't happen. The chance of alien life to evolve to be even remotely similiar to a human form is VERY, VERY slim. On the other hand, maybe NASA will find a bunch of veggies sitting around playing poker ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
X~File_Agent Posted March 1, 2004 #8 Share Posted March 1, 2004 The problem with finding life, is that we can only see life as we know it. We could be squishing some intelligent martian being, that is too small for us to see. The only way we'll find something is if it's really obvious to us. Some giant lizard being, with a phazer gun or something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gazz Posted March 2, 2004 #9 Share Posted March 2, 2004 (edited) Sorry to dissapoint everyone who hopes to find Humanoid life forms in space - that won't happen. The chance of alien life to evolve to be even remotely similiar to a human form is VERY, VERY slim. If you are talking about finding "humanoid" life on Mars alone you may be right. But to say that this life has no chance of existing in this massive universe is foolish to say the least! In our own galaxy there are about as many stars as there are grains of sand on all the beaches of the world... and then in the universe there are as many if not more galaxies as there are stars in our own galaxy. To think we are alone is foolish! To believe this is the only planet in the universe to evolve life is well.. Silly Gazz Edited March 3, 2004 by Gazz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MoonFox Posted March 2, 2004 #10 Share Posted March 2, 2004 I agree with Gazz. There's a VERY huge chance of other possible humanoid life out there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC09 Posted March 2, 2004 #11 Share Posted March 2, 2004 (edited) Update here Doesn't add all that much, really. Edited March 2, 2004 by Kellalor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aquatus1 Posted March 7, 2004 #12 Share Posted March 7, 2004 The possibility of finding humanoid life which evolved similarly to human life (paired organs, 5 fingers, etc...) is so remote that I would consider such evidence to be indicative of a supernatural power. Since the Christian Bible stated that God created all men in his image, I would have to consider whether this validates a claim for the Christian God. But I'm still thinking that we'll only find bacterial fossils, if that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PsychicPenguin Posted March 7, 2004 #13 Share Posted March 7, 2004 How could the word "Christian God" get into this thread??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WALLPAPER Posted March 8, 2004 #14 Share Posted March 8, 2004 If they find humanoids on Mars, will the Vatican send representatives to Mars to try and convert them to Christianity/Catholicism? Not trying to be sarcastic but think about it. Really. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PsychicPenguin Posted March 8, 2004 #15 Share Posted March 8, 2004 If they find humanoids on Mars, will the Vatican send representatives to Mars to try and convert them to Christianity/Catholicism? Not trying to be sarcastic but think about it. Really. No, we will bring them back here for slaves, as they are not humans... therefore.. uhm.. they have no soul Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stillcrazy Posted March 8, 2004 #16 Share Posted March 8, 2004 Just a silly thought. It would be interesting if NASA finds the primary building blocks for life on Mars. It would really be interesting to find that we shared those building blocks. That would open the door to us earthlings being from mars and had to migrate to another suitable planet for our survival. That could explain a lot of prehistoric and ancient ruins. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KayEl Posted March 8, 2004 #17 Share Posted March 8, 2004 I don't think humanoid life have such a remote chance of evolving elsewhere. In the end, form is slave to function and function is dictated by the environment. Take a look at fish, ichythosaurs and dolphins. All three are different types of animals and yet all three shared the similar forms because they share similar environments. So I wouldn't be surprised to see similar shaped creatures evolving in some ocean elsewhere. Thus it is quite possible that alien land animals could be tetrapods as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naveed Posted March 8, 2004 #18 Share Posted March 8, 2004 Just think though that if mars had water, and may still have in some parts, what about martian microbes? If they still exist, who knows what they could do to the human body, yet alone what would happen if people did land their and get sick from them? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sum1 Posted March 14, 2004 #19 Share Posted March 14, 2004 I saw this thing on tv a little while ago. They said that in many of the rocks that where around where the water was has some kind of special chemical in it ( cant remember wich one though). This chemical can only be formed in water, but water with this chemical in it is very uninhabitable. On Earth only a very select fiew specias of micro organisims can survive in this chemical. So this brings down the possibility of mars having life on it. Also they dont know exactly how much water there was, could be a huge body of water or could have been just a pond. And for anyone who dosent know, mars does have water on it currently, it has polar ice caps on the north and south poles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ufo Hunter Posted March 15, 2004 #20 Share Posted March 15, 2004 it wouldent matter still we cant settel on and planet or moon in the solar system cause of the way those planets ahve dangerous gas in the air same with mars Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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