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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!
Go now! Make SARS look weak!
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...
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
-Laz
Couldn't life be based upon a different liquid than water?
beer
A different solid than carbon?
pizza
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.
Beep beep.
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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