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Life on Mars? Why Not?
Guillaume Filion writes "IEEE spectrum has an interesting article about a new probe sent to Mars searching for life: 'Recent missions to Mars have focused on the search for water, past or present, as a surrogate for life itself. But now a British-led team is working to renew the search for life directly, fueled by doubts about the equipment that prompted NASA to declare Mars a dead world some 26 years ago.'"
I hope they find life and rush it back to Earth!
Just think of all the death it could bring!
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...but it died for lack of water.
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especially something that'll actually propel the probe to mars. Something liquid, perhaps.
When an engineer claims to be fuelled by something other than caffeine, I'm immediately suspicious.
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
Oh, what's that? The probe sanitizer was on leave before packaging and launch? Ah, well, maybe it'll grow up to be like it's parents...
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I'm really hoping that they land near that "face" on Mars that the Weekly World News always shows. ;-)
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It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
I bet you'll have a tough time determining if it is life or not when a Martian comes and blasts your ass with his ray gun. I'm sure that categorizing the little green man will be a real dilema for you.
Couldn't life be based upon a different liquid than water?
beer
A different solid than carbon?
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Distilled Usenet bitterness?
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WHY NOT?!!!!
Because it would shake our religious and moral philosphies to their very core! Because, everything we believe in would be proven wrong!! What's wrong with you? Lord, man, I'm shaking just thinking about it.
Oh, I thought you said wifes in bars.
never mind
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It's all part of NASA's work on alternative fuel sources - they believe that by running rocket engines on 'doubts' they can seriously cut down on the emissions caused by shuttle and satellite launches. The last major hurdle to overcome is how to make the navigation system certain that it has arrived in the correct place.
The organisation has a history of almost-but-not-quite developing revolutionary new fuel sources, last year NASA stopped developing their faster-than-light 'bad news' powered rockets as they were unwelcome everywhere they went.
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Friends, I have never been able to figure out why so many allegedly educated Americans have had the wool so completely pulled over their eyes when it comes to things such as "extraterrestrial planets" such as Mars. Other than the ridiculously amateurish "photographs" of Mars that leftist scientists have fabricated using their citrus-colored iMacs, there is no -- repeat, no evidence that such a planet actually exists.
I am an astronomer myself, and I can tell you from personal experience that there are lots of different stars in the sky. There are stars of many different sizes; some stars are very large. some stars are very small, and there are many in between. And these stars are of many different colors; some of them are yellow, some of them are blue, some of them are green, and yes, some of them are red. So tell me: When leftists look through their telescopes and see what is plainly a large red star, what possible motivation do they have to claim that it's a "planet?" Furthermore, why would they go so far as to claim that such planet harbors, or once harbored, life?
First and foremost, they make this claim because it is difficult to disprove. "There was once life on Mars!" they say, and the general public swoons over this "important finding" because they are in no position to dispute it. Then, in a couple of years, they'll come out and say something like: "Our analysis of this meteor leads us to believe that the beings on Mars had an evolved civilization that included taxpayer-funded education and universal health care, liberal sex education standards, and widespread access to condoms." Once again, the gullible public will believe them. The leftists will claim that the "enlightened" Martians had everything from advanced genetic cloning programs to a One World Government. And then they'll ask the question: "Why don't we have these things here in America?"
I'll tell you why we don't have these things in America: because they don't work. There is no Mars. And if there is no Mars, then there can be no Martians. And if the Martians don't exist, then neither do any of their socialist government programs. Hint to the liberals: The next time you want to try to bamboozle the moral community, you'd better come up with evidence that's more concrete than a handful of red-tinted pictures of the Arizona desert and a couple of still shots from James Cameron's latest turkey of a "space sci-fi epic." I'm sorry to say that we're not quite as stupid as your strategy requires us to be.
Ray Bradbury, CS Lewis, and Orson Welles were found hibernating under the polar ice cap.
All three apparently retreated off to the ice caps to hibernate after being bitterly disappointed at what they found on Mars; Welles didn't find anything to drink, Lewis didn't find God, and Bradbury was devastated over the lack of people with shiny coins for eyes.
Why should I argue rationally with someone being irrational? I'll just mock them instead.
Scientists discover new life form
Based on a previously-unknown element, tentatively termed pizzate, the only other substance the collegen studentious needs to survive is based on a fermented grain.
The collegen studentious primarily lives in small square rooms, but very ocasionally can be found in large rooms when chalkboards are present. Mostly nocturnal, at night they usually spend their time trying to breed, gathering socially with others wherever their fermented nourishment is dispensed.
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