Oh shit son: Curiosity is travelling through an ancient river
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If anything Mars is a failed earth. It core cooled too quickly and lost its magnetic field, making it's environment hostile to incubate early life. Mars went through similar processes as earth, it just didn't have the right stuff to maintain it and it's life as an earth-like planet -if such a phase ever existed- was short lived. It died young.
it would be so cool if we found remnants of a giant civilization on mars from billions of years ago. interplanetary archaeology would be the most awesome job ever
I wonder what else it will find. The mission will still last several months if not longer than a year
[QUOTE=Conspiracy;38135028]it would be so cool if we found remnants of a giant civilization on mars from billions of years ago. interplanetary archaeology would be the most awesome job ever[/QUOTE]
I doubt.
I mean, for long after humans have gone extinct (if we ever even do), our shit will stick around for even longer, like hard-built facilities and houses, plastic crap, etc.
So, if there was some giant civilization on Mars at some point, Mars would have to be littered with their shit, even if the civilization is long-gone.
[QUOTE=mysteryman;38131882]This is just incredibly astounding and fascinating and it's just a discovery that Curiosity landed in an ancient stream. It's such a simple thing but on mars, it's incredible!
It just makes you wonder even more what mars once looked like or why it's how it is now.[/QUOTE]
Because it has much lower gravity.
[QUOTE=Gekkosan;38136266]I doubt.
I mean, for long after humans have gone extinct (if we ever even do), our shit will stick around for even longer, like hard-built facilities and houses, plastic crap, etc.
So, if there was some giant civilization on Mars at some point, Mars would have to be littered with their shit, even if the civilization is long-gone.[/QUOTE]
Cities and plastic would be gone pretty fast, actually, only giant, hardened structures like the Hoover Dam or anything in orbit would be left after several thousand years.
What amazes me more than the discovery is that the public isn't buzzing with the knowledge. Every discussion I've tried to start on the matter (of Curiosity's discoveries) has been responded to with absolute surprise and then disinterest.
Nobody looks up anymore, only down. Very few people I know even cared that Curiosity landed. Perhaps it's name is ironic in the utter absence of curiosity in the world today. The news hardly covers it for fear of missing something that is bleeding, and thus will get people reading.
[QUOTE=Griffster26;38133175]How long will it be before the rover finds that [URL="http://zim.wikia.com/wiki/Battle_of_the_Planets"]Mars is a giant spacecraft[/URL]?[/QUOTE]
[I]My people worked themselves to extinction turning this planet into a rocket.
Why would you do that?
Because it's cool.[/I]
Life is BOUND to exist in some other solar system, the tragic part is that it is doomed to never communicate due to how large the universe is.
Which raises the question, does a hypothetical universe need a certain age to make life likely enough and is it ALWAYS too big to interconnect lifeforms?
Man if only I could write a novel about this.
[QUOTE=Killuah;38136462]Life is BOUND to exist in some other solar system, the tragic part is that it is doomed to never communicate due to how large the universe is.
Which raises the question, does a hypothetical universe need a certain age to make life likely enough and is it ALWAYS too big to interconnect lifeforms?
Man if only I could write a novel about this.[/QUOTE]
when we find out that we're just a simulation it'll all be worthless anyway
[QUOTE=Keyblockor;38134797]My belief on all of this is that it was stripped of it's resources, completely getting fucked to it's abyssmal level that everything died on it.
Probably what would happen to Earth if we keep going this route.[/QUOTE]
Stripping the world of it's resources does not really affect the environment, since when did the trees and shit need solid Iron ore, why would anything need coal or any other fossil fuels? the supply of those only affect us.
[QUOTE=lonefirewarrior;38136427][I]My people worked themselves to extinction turning this planet into a rocket.
Why would you do that?
Because it's cool.[/I][/QUOTE]
"Mm-hm"
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[QUOTE=andololol;38136526]Stripping the world of it's resources does not really affect the environment, since when did the trees and shit need solid Iron ore, why would anything need coal or any other fossil fuels? the supply of those only affect us.[/QUOTE]
???
I'd usually be more articulate than three question marks, but you lost me there. The entire balance of the planet's ecosystems is on a continuum scale. It'd be in poor logic to assume that any material isn't somehow essential or at least a part in how things work. It's more of a continuum than a binary switch, and as things come unbalanced, it becomes a lot easier to make a rapid slide from one end of the scale (or one point in the graph, if we are working with more complexity) to another.
These slides are what is catastrophic to life (the environment)
I've always thought it'd be fascinating if mars and earth started with the same bacteria at the same time. Seeing how differently they'd develop/how the world would be right now.
[QUOTE=Bobie;38136474]when we find out that we're just a simulation it'll all be worthless anyway[/QUOTE]
Actually that wouldn't change a single thing since all we know and value is based on "our simulation" and still valid within it.
[QUOTE=CB1993;38133754]Uh, duh.[/QUOTE]Is it normal to feel paranoid reading those kind of things?
Think about it - in the distant future children may be learning Interplanetary History in schools
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