[URL]http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/04/13/life_on_mars_1976/[/URL]
[QUOTE]The USA’s Viking mission found life on Mars, says a new paper that has re-analysed data collected by the two probes.
[I][URL="http://ijass.org/On_line/admin/files/2)(014-026)11-030.pdf"]Complexity Analysis of the Viking Labeled Release Experiments (PDF)[/URL], published yesterday in the International Journal of Aeronautic and Space Sciences, asserts that a test designed to detect microbial life did so, when re-interpreted in light of other recent discoveries about the red planet.
The two [URL="http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/viking/"]Viking probes[/URL] landed on Mars in 1976 and carried an experiment that heated soil and then released certain in the hope they would initiate chemical reactions that would indicate the presence of life (Your correspondent has a vivid memory of those substances being described as “chicken soup”, such was their potential deliciousness to microbes, in a well-thumbed 1977 edition of [I]National Geographic[/I] featuring vivid colour Mars landscape photographs gathered by the landers, but I digress).
One of the three experiments of this sort, the “Labeled Release” (LR) experiment, produced results that hinted at the presence of life. Two others did not.
Extensive analysis of LR data went on for years, without ever offering firm conclusions.
The authors of this paper have applied “complexity analysis to the Viking LR data” and say their techniques “permit deep analysis of data structure along continua including signal vs. noise, entropy vs.negentropy, periodicity vs. aperiodicity, order vs. disorder etc.” Seven complexity variables were used to re-analyse and compare original LR data so they can “be distinguished from controls via cluster analysis and other multivariate techniques.” The team also mentions the importance of even very small patterns in data, characterising them as “pink noise” suggestive of biological processes compared to the “white noise” produced by “the complete unpredictability of pure random physical processes.”
At the end of all that they argue that new analysis of the LR experiment suggests the reactions it detected were the result of biological processes and the lander did indeed “… provide considerable support for the conclusion that the Viking LR experiments did, indeed, detect extant microbial life on Mars.”
This [I]Reg[/I] writer welcomes our new Microbial Martian Overlords and would like to remind them the whole staff could be useful rounding up others to toil in their underground sugar caves. ® [/I][/QUOTE]
I want to believe.
Now to enslave them before they enslave us.
ALL HAIL THE MARKER!
So we might have discovered Martian bacteria?
[QUOTE=blacksam;35583902]Now to enslave them before they enslave us.[/QUOTE]
TOO LATE EARTHLING.
Have none of you played any video games?
how can this possibly end well?
We're fucked, mates.
Well there's your answer, David Bowie.
[img]http://www.blogcdn.com/www.aoltv.com/media/2007/01/sam_tyler_new.jpg[/img]
they've finally found him!
It was probably a three year old mars bar with a touch of mould - nothing to be excited about
why i dont see people running and screaming out my house?
and then we find out that actually one of the scientists accidentally sneezed on the instrument a few hours before takeoff and was too embarrassed to tell anyone
[QUOTE=Amplar;35584097][img]http://www.blogcdn.com/www.aoltv.com/media/2007/01/sam_tyler_new.jpg[/img]
they've finally found him![/QUOTE]
I was just thinking that, but I was thinking about the American version, as I have not seen the UK original.
Edit: Why exactly is it dumb that an American would think of the American version of a tv show before the UK version? It isn't like I readily had access to the UK version before Netflix added.
[QUOTE=Mrglitch2000;35584433]I don't know whether to be excited or scared...?[/QUOTE]Why would you be scared? It's not like they found an advanced extraterrestrial civilization capable of wiping us out or anything, it's just microbes.
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[QUOTE=monkey11;35584448][IMG]http://epguides.com/ButtUglyMartians/cast.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]Butt-Ugly Animation
[QUOTE=jaykray;35584371]This must be related to the monolith!
[url]http://facepunch.com/threads/1176951[/url][/QUOTE]
Oh shit, they're gonna evolve and then they'll be able to enslave us. I guess we're fucked
So did it actually find life or is it speculated that there might've been life but we don't know yet
because the article is vague
They reanalyzed the results from old tests and think we found microbes, or at least signs of them.
[editline]15th April 2012[/editline]
I'm remaining cautiously optimistic
[QUOTE=Alan Ninja!;35584501]Oh shit, they're gonna evolve and then they'll be able to enslave us. I guess we're fucked[/QUOTE]
It's the fucking marker bro! the microbes are waiting for the signal from the marker!
[b]OH GOD THEY WANT OUR BODIES MAN![/b] [highlight]THEY WANT OUR BODIES AND THEY'RE GONNA GET THEM![/highlight]
Even more reason to expand space programs. If chemicals needed for life are present on mars guess what's likely too: ressources. Maybe we'll discover that life on earth came from mars.
Epic Sci-Fi story about Mars evacuation gone wrong by an accident in my head.
[QUOTE=autodesknoob;35584138]why i dont see people running and screaming out my house?[/QUOTE]
Because human's aren't afraid of micro organism life.
OH MY GOD IT'S GOING TO EEAAAAT US
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