• Life on Mars? Fossil find shows it's possible
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Sorry, my bad then, but anything that is evolved enough to take a relative viewable form.
Sulfur, huh? I wouldn't be surprised in the slightest if they found cyanide or chlorine based life forms If humans touch them, instant death, no hugs for you
I don't understand why people are so stubborn about giving up their belief that life [b]needs[/b] oxygen and/or water. It doesn't. What makes them think that life, as adaptable as it is, can't thrive off/be made of other energy sources?
[url]http://www.google.com/#hl=en&cp=4&gs_id=r&xhr=t&q=ALH84001&qe=QUxIOA&qesig=S8v2WSqMGvxSdWLvD_cqmw&pkc=AFgZ2tk4Gjz4d0DP64bRzycpMCCs-srn5D9gnepsSPIsRvnihRCNxsvfGm4eGTPYwsowmPn6NssYhdwJ_93CbGbCE5R41Iq67g&pf=p&sclient=psy&safe=off&source=hp&pbx=1&oq=ALH8&aq=0&aqi=g5&aql=&gs_sm=&gs_upl=&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&fp=80a7ff9ca756264&biw=1680&bih=949[/url] bonus:[img]http://curator.jsc.nasa.gov/antmet/marsmets/alh84001/images/ALH84001-EM4.jpg[/img]
Sulfur based life? Sounds smelly.
Don't WE have bacteria life that can't live in Oxygen too?
[QUOTE=SinjinOmega;31885014]Don't WE have bacteria life that can't live in Oxygen too?[/QUOTE] Well, the article *says* that the fact that we found it in Australia could lend credence to the fact that it's possible out there. tl;dr thatstheidea.jpg.
This is really cool. I really wanna be around when (if) we discover the first E.T life.
wait if life existed on earth without oxygen, then surely life could be/could have been all over the place.
[QUOTE=geoface;31891086]wait if life existed on earth without oxygen, then surely life could be/could have been all over the place.[/QUOTE] Whoa shit guys he might be on to something!
[QUOTE=Rad McCool;31885333]This is really cool. I really wanna be around when (if) we discover the first E.T life.[/QUOTE] People might disagree with me, but I'm betting you and I will be alive when we make contact with another intelligent civilization.
If we met other intelligent life it'd probably be very sudden and random.
[QUOTE=valkery;31870984]Did you even read the article? They found a fossil in Australia that could survive without any oxygen, prompting them to believe that life on Mars is even more plausible.[/QUOTE] [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anaerobic_organism]Anaerobic organisms[/url] Quite sure we've known this for a while, unless I misread the article.
[QUOTE=MrJazzy;31896783]If we met other intelligent life it'd probably be very sudden and random.[/QUOTE]Or it'll be some horny 15 year old on Omegle when an alien somehow connects to it [i] You are now talking to a stranger! Say hi! You: asl Stranger: ?ASKLAD&*&#@$* You: 15/f/california Stranger: ((@#@?Z(11011010110 You: ASL?? Stranger has disconnected [/i] And then Earth was doomed
It was my understanding that a lot of the tests for bacteria on Mars have been fundamentally flawed. For example testing showed that one test couldn't detect bacteria in Antarctica when there was.
[QUOTE=Rocko's;31873289]Mars is our new life reset button, can we colonize there now? This planet has suffered enough.[/QUOTE] God damnit I hate when people say this. Our planet is still the most habitable one in our solar system. Do you think that we'll be able to suddenly make Mars livable if we can't even regulate minute changes in gas concentrations in our own atmosphere, which have huge impacts? And where would we get the oxygen from? Earth? This terraforming bullshit is just so ridiculous, it's almost like a religion in that it is a comforting thought to avoid dealing with our current problems.
I said this a few weeks ago and got criticized for it on the Blizzard forums.
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