Methane Is Found on Mars, Raising Hope of Life There Now
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[QUOTE]A year after reporting that NASA’s Curiosity rover had found no evidence of methane gas on Mars, dashing the best hope that organisms might be living there now, scientists reversed themselves on Tuesday.
Curiosity has now recorded a burst of methane that lasted at least two months.
For now, scientists have just two possible explanations for the methane. One is that it is the waste product of certain living microbes.
The scientists also reported that for the first time, they confirmed the presence of carbon-based organic molecules in a rock sample. The so-called organics are not direct signs of life, past or present, but they lend weight to the possibility that Mars had the ingredients required for life, and may even still have them.[/QUOTE]
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Looks like the crafty alien cloaking technology couldn't mask xeno-farts!
MARS AHOY!
Fart gas confirmed.
Fuck Xenos, Human race Master race!
The moment that Mars life is confirmed, NASA's budget is going to explode.
[QUOTE=Orkel;46730858]The moment that Mars life is confirmed, NASA's budget is going to explode.[/QUOTE]
Not likely, sadly even if life is found on another planet it won't stop all those "nasa is a waste of money" morons
[QUOTE=Glitchman;46730879]Not likely, sadly even if life is found on another planet it won't stop all those "nasa is a waste of money" morons[/QUOTE]
it will basically disprove abrahamic religion though.
[QUOTE=Orkel;46730858]The moment that Mars life is confirmed, NASA's budget is going to explode.[/QUOTE]
there was this book i read, basically we keep fucking around with crashed alien tech and almost anihilate ourselves, they come and blow up their shit safely and then like the next day its explained as weather balloons and NASA's budget suddenly gets quadrupled. like if we even picked up a credible signal from another planet we probably would start devoting huge resources to space-travel
the problem is, what would a credible signal be though, we had the WOW signal in the 80's thats still unexplained but because it was so short we couldn't really prove if it was anything
The best strategy is to concentrate searches for signals on two apparently habitable planets that are as close to being opposite earth as possible, they probably focus their transmissions instead of just broadcasting it like a lightbulb if they even bother transmitting at all. Now I don't know if we even have any pairs of systems like that, but I've never heard anybody suggest this technique
[QUOTE=Orkel;46730858]The moment that Mars life is confirmed, NASA's budget is going to explode.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, right. NASA is important, why would our government give them the funding they deserve
I can't even fathom what DARPA would do if they had $200 Billion a year to spend. We don't need 11 Aircraft Carriers or 50+ bases around the world. We could give that much if we really wanted to
It's going to take the threat of destruction of our planet from a rock or meeting Klarptoven from Ross 248 to get their budget pumped
Maybe that's why there's no life on Mars.
Aliens used Methane for their ovens, and someone forgot to turn theirs off, and lit a match so smoke his pipe!
[QUOTE=Pvt. Martin;46731840]Maybe that's why there's no life on Mars.
Aliens used Methane for their ovens, and someone forgot to turn theirs off, and lit a match so smoke his pipe![/QUOTE]
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A two month long blast of methane?
[QUOTE=smidge146;46733429]A two month long blast of methane?[/QUOTE]
Sounds like my apartment when my girlfriend's not around.
Time to mine?
[QUOTE=Orkel;46730858]The moment that Mars [B]oil [/B]is confirmed, NASA's budget is going to explode.[/QUOTE]
ftfy
[QUOTE=thermobaric;46733714]ftfy[/QUOTE]
Plenty of Iron.
At least one thing is for certain; there is very little to absolutely no life on the [I]surface[/I] of Mars.
This man is a confirmed Martian
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJnN91BDGXc[/media]
This thread has really gotten me curious about what our edge will be -- I mean, at what point will we make a discovery that really gets people motivated? Every piece of news like this brings the discussion back up, but at what point will people really care about going to mars? What's it going to take?
[editline]17th December 2014[/editline]
[QUOTE=gary spivey;46734234]This man is a confirmed Martian
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJnN91BDGXc[/media][/QUOTE]
Well, fuck -- if we contact sentient martian life, now we know what to send them to prove both our intelligence and our use of methane.
I bet those damn imps farted...
[QUOTE=thermobaric;46733714]ftfy[/QUOTE]
Not with $60 a barrel
[QUOTE=Nebukadnezzer;46731584]it will basically disprove abrahamic religion though.[/QUOTE]
not really, I mean I dont see how it could completely invalidate the Abrahamic Religions, religions have been known to evolve and change with time after all
[QUOTE=Native Hunter;46736466]not really, I mean I dont see how it could completely invalidate the Abrahamic Religions, religions have been known to evolve and change with time after all[/QUOTE]
Hell, maybe God got bored with Earth and decided to mess around with Mars for the moment. And the rest of his Universal side project.
I like to think life is like a videogame.
Earth is the tutorial and Mars is the first level. Its pretty close and half of the work seems to be already done.
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