Ancient Fossilized Earth-like Soils Discovered on Mars: Suggests Microbial Life - Polidicks

[t]http://images.sciencedaily.com/2014/07/140717125043-large.jpg[/t] [quote="Science Daily"]Soil deep in a crater dating to some 3.7 billion years ago contains evidence that Mars was once much warmer and wetter, says a geologist based on images and data captured by the rover Curiosity ... Surface cracks in the deeply buried soils suggest typical soil clods. Vesicular hollows, or rounded holes, and sulfate concentrations, he said, are both features of desert soils on Earth ... The ancient soils, he said, [B]do not prove[/B] that Mars once contained life, but they do add to growing evidence that an early wetter and warmer Mars was more habitable than the planet has been in the past 3 billion years. Retallack noted that Steven Benner of the Westheimer Institute of Science and Technology in Florida has speculated[B] that life is more likely to have originated on a soil planet like Mars than a water planet like Earth[/B]. In an email, Benner wrote that Retallack's paper [B]"shows not only soils that might be direct products of an early Martian life, but also the wet-dry cycles that many models require for the emergence of life."[/B][/quote] [url="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/07/140717125043.htm"]Source[/url]

thats' fucking dumb lol! [highlight](User was banned for this post ("Shitpost" - Craptasket))[/highlight]

The damn things couldn't even bother becoming sapient before going extinct. Lazy Martian bastards.

[QUOTE=UberMunchkin;45433023]If there's one thing I know from science fiction is that you don't touch the fossils Curiosity may kill more than just the cat this time[/QUOTE] no, see if they're fossilized then theyre already dead, we dont have to worry about curiosity killing anything here

[QUOTE=Ninja Gnome;45433103]no, see if they're fossilized then theyre already dead, we dont have to worry about curiosity killing anything here[/QUOTE] It's not even a fossil of anything that was alive, it's a fossil of some dirt that can form if something was maybe alive once.

[QUOTE=Mort Stroodle;45432955]The damn things couldn't even bother becoming sapient before going extinct. Lazy Martian bastards.[/QUOTE] Or maybe there were sapient species and everything left by them is now gone? It's been over 3 billion years.

Just in time for the new Doom...

[quote]The ancient soils, he said, do not prove that Mars once contained life, but they do add to growing evidence that an early wetter and warmer Mars was more habitable than the planet has been in the past 3 billion years.[/quote] Important part of the article.

Time to send humans to Mars to we can do more in-depth investigations of the planet's history. It would also be great since we could return samples of the soil for an even more in-depth analysis of the soil.

[QUOTE=Roll_Program;45433576]Time to send humans to Mars to we can do more in-depth investigations of the planet's history. It would also be great since we could return samples of the soil for an even more in-depth analysis of the soil.[/QUOTE] That won't happen anytime soon The fuel load will slightly less than double if there is a return trip involved (I know it's even less due to not fighting the earths gravity on the way back, etc etc) Adding more fuel means adding more weight, meaning more time needed to reach speed, meaning more fuel will need to be burned than initially expected Thus the rocket needed to bring man to and from mars would be gigantic and cost more than nasa could ever build on this current budget of theirs

It's protheans

[QUOTE]"There is a real possibility that there is or was life on Mars," he wrote.[/QUOTE] ya know what ancient life means boys... yeap. oil.

There's oil on mars? Time to invade!

And somehow, oil companies [I]would[/I] be able to justify the cost of importing oil from mars.

[QUOTE=tgp1994;45439924]And somehow, oil companies [I]would[/I] be able to justify the cost of importing oil from mars.[/QUOTE] no they wouldn't oil companies are incredibly frugal and they'd sooner do all of the untapped tar sands i mean seriously having a stick up your arse about oil companies is perfectly healthy but there's no need to be [I]completely wrong[/I] about it

[QUOTE=BrainDeath;45441220]no they wouldn't oil companies are incredibly frugal and they'd sooner do all of the untapped tar sands i mean seriously having a stick up your arse about oil companies is perfectly healthy but there's no need to be [I]completely wrong[/I] about it[/QUOTE] I was making a joke about a gas prices, sorry.

[QUOTE=UberMunchkin;45433023]If there's one thing I know from science fiction is that you don't touch the fossils Curiosity may kill more than just the cat this time[/QUOTE] We didn't touch them, we zapped them with a kilowatt laser [editline]19th July 2014[/editline] [QUOTE=Rangergxi;45434702]ya know what ancient life means boys... yeap. oil.[/QUOTE] That's actually very good news, means there's abundant hydrogen there to be used for rocket fuel

[QUOTE=Ninja Gnome;45433103]no, see if they're fossilized then theyre already dead, we dont have to worry about curiosity killing anything here[/QUOTE] Yeah tell that to the las plagas