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Shal

Shal

Los Angeles, CA
October 2002

FEB 16, 2005 12:39 PM

It may not be little green men or grey aliens with almond-shaped eyes, but NASA scientists Carol Stoker and Larry Lemke have found strong evidence of the possibility of life on Mars.

What Stoker and Lemke have found, according to several attendees of the private meeting, is not direct proof of life on Mars, but methane signatures and other signs of possible biological activity remarkably similar to those recently discovered in caves here on Earth.

Stoker told her private audience Sunday evening that by comparing discoveries made at Rio Tinto with data collected by ground-based telescopes and orbiting spacecraft, including the European Space Agency’s Mars Express, she and Lemke have made a very a strong case that life exists below Mars’ surface.

The two scientists, according to sources at the Sunday meeting, based their case in part on Mars’ fluctuating methane signatures that could be a sign of an active underground biosphere and nearby surface concentrations of the sulfate jarosite, a mineral salt found on Earth in hot springs and other acidic bodies of water like Rio Tinto that have been found to harbor life despite their inhospitable environments.

Stoker and Lemke hope to move Martian exploration underground and into caves in search for microbial or other life forms in the future. Their current research has been submitted for publication in the scientific journal Nature.

Snottlebocket

Snottlebocket

Netherlands
March 2004

FEB 16, 2005 12:49 PM

man imagine going into one of those caves and suddenly finding a whole ecosystem of life in one of those caves on a planet always thought to be dead.
if earth can hold that many suprises of that sort maybe mars has one for us too.

freshprncebelair

freshprncebelair

Ellicott City, MD
June 2004

FEB 16, 2005 12:49 PM

I for one, welcome our new Martian overlords.

Coliwali

Coliwali

I'm lost
February 2003

FEB 16, 2005 12:54 PM

I wish NASA had about 12 times its current budget.

handsome_rob

handsome_rob

Burlington, IA
May 2004

FEB 16, 2005 01:01 PM

hey, there's an idea. fuck the war, fuck democracy forced down the throats of brown people. let's look at the bigger picture and the things that matter more than guns or politics. like how insignificant we really are in the grand scheme of the universe.

PointBlank

PointBlank

New York, NY
November 2004

FEB 16, 2005 01:11 PM

no50 said:
hey, there's an idea. fuck the war, fuck democracy forced down the throats of brown people. let's look at the bigger picture and the things that matter more than guns or politics. like how insignificant we really are in the grand scheme of the universe.


Speak for yourself.

beaky

beaky

Miami, FL
April 2003

FEB 16, 2005 01:19 PM

We are all doomed

JonnyJonnyH

JonnyJonnyH

Seattle, WA
June 2003

FEB 16, 2005 01:23 PM

James Lovelock still disagrees with them though.

Coliwali

Coliwali

I'm lost
February 2003

FEB 16, 2005 01:24 PM

ankiel66 said:
James Lovelock still disagrees with them though.



Maybe we should just send something that can give us a definitive answer and settle it once and for all.

jaLopY

jaLopY

I'm lost
December 2004

FEB 16, 2005 01:32 PM

Enfant_Terrible said:
Nuke'em!!! Quick!


or send them Big Macs and Fries.

DireChocobo

DireChocobo

Fairburn, GA
July 2004

FEB 16, 2005 02:15 PM

Point_Blank said:

no50 said:
hey, there's an idea. fuck the war, fuck democracy forced down the throats of brown people. let's look at the bigger picture and the things that matter more than guns or politics. like how insignificant we really are in the grand scheme of the universe.


Speak for yourself.



I'm with him dude. I'm not special. I am not a beautiful snowflake. I realize this. There are insects and bacteria, if they went extinct, ecosystems would crumble. Can't say the same for humans.

darksphere

darksphere

Vancouver, BC
January 2005

FEB 16, 2005 02:20 PM

I am special. I am a very special snowflake.

JonnyJonnyH

JonnyJonnyH

Seattle, WA
June 2003

FEB 16, 2005 03:00 PM

Coliwali said:

ankiel66 said:
James Lovelock still disagrees with them though.



Maybe we should just send something that can give us a definitive answer and settle it once and for all.



I think they should make a group of robots powered on solar cells that can fix each other. Then equip them with drills and chem labs. That would be awesome. Especially if we could watch them on a website with ads that could help fund the project. They could also sell merchandise featuring the robot posse. "NASA has a robot posse" would be a high seller in deed.

dem_z

dem_z

United Kingdom
June 2004

FEB 16, 2005 03:21 PM

ankiel66 said:
I think they should make a group of robots powered on solar cells that can fix each other.


Didn't you ever see terminator!! eeek

I read that 'they' are quite pleased about the performance of the solar cells on the Mars rovers. 'they' were expecting them to get covered in dust and have reduced efficiency, but that seems to have not happened, so the rovers have had a longer than expected life span.

dem_z

dem_z

United Kingdom
June 2004

FEB 16, 2005 03:22 PM

Life on Mars is just a theory...

Akrasia

Akrasia

Ireland
August 2004

FEB 16, 2005 03:23 PM

what are the theological implications of this?

If there is life found on different two planets in one solar system then the probability of life on other planets in the countless other solar systems is very very high, and the liklyhood of other intelligent life on some other planets is immense.
Religions on this planet assume that God created the earth for the benefit of man, that's slightly ludicrous to extend 'god made life on omega xxvviii 30 lightyears away for the benefit of man"

abracadabra

abracadabra

Seattle, WA
April 2004

FEB 16, 2005 04:15 PM

next news story about mars.."president bush announced today that he believes the martians are capable of wmd so we must send a "peacekeeping" mission to allow them free elections spreading democracy through the galaxy "..."we've seen the pictures and firmly believe they are capable of producing nuculer bombs that would threaten our democracy lovin' ways"..."watch this drive...does anybody have any pretzels??"...

[Edited on Feb 16, 2005 by razorbladesonata]

Lego_

Lego_

United Kingdom
June 2003

FEB 16, 2005 04:15 PM

Akrasia said:
what are the theological implications of this?

If there is life found on different two planets in one solar system then the probability of life on other planets in the countless other solar systems is very very high, and the liklyhood of other intelligent life on some other planets is immense.
Religions on this planet assume that God created the earth for the benefit of man, that's slightly ludicrous to extend 'god made life on omega xxvviii 30 lightyears away for the benefit of man"



The idea that God created Earth for man falls down way before that on the point of "Why did He create other planets at all?"

However the idea that God created Earth AND man as part of a larger for a universe would not struggle with the idea of life on other planets.

JohnClement

JohnClement

Silver Spring, MD
January 2004

FEB 16, 2005 04:34 PM

If there is life, I can guarantee it's no older than 5,000 years old. wink

llouys

llouys

Brazil
August 2003

FEB 16, 2005 04:57 PM

BillHaverchuck said:
If there is life, I can guarantee it's no older than 5,000 years old. wink



That was one hell of an ark.

Slide

Slide

SUICIDEGIRL

I'm lost

FEB 16, 2005 05:29 PM

aw, these things used to always grab my interest and then turn out to be nothing. Now even they way they write about it makes me cynical. 'Strong evidence of the possiblity of life on mars' , 'no direct proof..but' Wasnt life on mars already a possibility? Indirect evidence always seems a bit dodgy to me *shrug* Guess I'm no expert though.

/takes off cynic cap

woo hoo. martians *boogie*

loper_just_loper

loper_just_loper

Broken Arrow, OK
January 2005

FEB 16, 2005 06:50 PM

I say we go to Mars and give them anal probes. PAY BACK!!!

Akrasia

Akrasia

Ireland
August 2004

FEB 17, 2005 02:26 AM

Martians don't have anuses. Duh, If they did, they wouldn't be so fascinated with ours

matt_organic

matt_organic

United Kingdom
September 2003

FEB 17, 2005 02:42 AM

razorbladesonata said:
next news story about mars.."president bush announced today that he believes the martians are capable of wmd so we must send a "peacekeeping" mission to allow them free elections spreading democracy through the galaxy "..."we've seen the pictures and firmly believe they are capable of producing nuculer bombs that would threaten our democracy lovin' ways"..."watch this drive...does anybody have any pretzels??"...

[Edited on Feb 16, 2005 by razorbladesonata]



"I like to dig in the dirt... For bugs..."

What a guy.

Slander

Slander

Dayton, OH
May 2004

FEB 17, 2005 10:34 AM

Given that we've found life in the most hostile of places on earth; bacteria growing in the tundra, inside nuclear reactors, even in the upper atmosphere, laying dormant, it has seemed a safe but unscientific bet that there is a similar likelihood for life on Mars. I'd be surprised if Mars is as dead biologically as has been thought in past decades. I'd be surprised if such life was not plentiful in the universe. Even so, there's still a great leap from finding bacteria thriving under a shallow layer of soil to presuming that intelligent life would be as plentiful. But even an alien flatworm would be an important and momentous discovery.

I don't think they'd look good in those short little Star Trek skirts though. Dammit...

"Hey, it don't matter when it's Arcturan, baby..."

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