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Might Mars Contain Life?
stagmeister writes "According to the BBC, the Viking probes to Mars in the 1970s "detected strange signs of activity in the Martian soil - akin to microbes giving off gas," and that while those findings were not acknowledged as proof of life then, "in 1997, reached the conclusion ... that the so-called LR (labelled release) work had detected life." At the same time, the British are launching a probe to try to find life on Mars."
Oh, wait...they're hoping to Succeed...silly me.
Folks sitting around giving off gas tend to give me less hope of finding intelligent life.
Then again, I hail from Tennessee, so I see a lot of this sort of thing. Bring on the Martian trailerparks!
Sharpies don't just sniff themselves.
We send multi-billion dollar probes to Mars to discover microbes farting.
after lying around in the sun too long..
oh you mean the planet.. never mind
.......and its been known that they don't like us poking around their planet, damn, last time that Marvin guy was trying to get us with "an earth shattering KABOOM!"
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On Soviet Mars...
Ha! The -red- planet! Ha!
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Mars Climate Orbiter.
Mars Polar Lander
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Any word yet on whether or not they'll have representatives aboard the probe to setup an appropriate IP embargo and become the sole distribution channel of Earth's music and movies to a whole new captive audience?
Hint: I know it's an unmanned probe - it's a joke...
A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing -- Emo Phillips
"How can you be the Lone Rangers? There's 3 of you."
Boy, the way it happened in close encounters was so much more exciting: bright lights, music, Richard Dreyfus making mashed potato sculptures. Instead, we detect farts. Nice.
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I bet the Native Americans wished Europeans dawdled this much when exploring the New World. The first thing they did when they sighted land was to set foot.
We've seen this new world so many damn times! At what point do we send a ship full of people to just circle the place once and come back? I'd be happy to see a NASA mission go out from the Earth and back for just six months to get beyond the moon.
Signs of life are not going to change what we are going to do to that planet. The real interest is a) water, and b) if there is water, what natural resources can we plunder?
"Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart, he dreams himself your master."
If one of these martians comes to earth, would he start a religion and make love to everybody? I am begining to grok the situation.
maybe not, but I know there is life on Myanus. Oh wait... Shoot, I can never tell a joke right.
"Life was created in the initial Big Bang, when crunchy particles of wheat collided with creamy milk to form the foundation for all else to come. It wasn't until man developed the technology to build spoons and bowls could we harness the true power of Life. "
Hmmm. Replication... intellectual property... replication... intellectual property...
Juristictional issues notwithstanding, how long do you think it'd be before the RIAA puts a stop to this?
"Prepare for the worst - hope for the best."
NASA has declared that results for the search for life in my apartment are "inconclusive".
There is no such thing as an 'extraordinary claim'.
Yes, there is.
Ordinary claim: I saw a light in the sky last night.
Extraordinary claim: I saw an alien spacecraft over my house last night. It was piloted by aliens from a planet in the galaxy we know as M33. It was constructed of elements from the trans-uranic island of stability and had a faster-than-light stardrive. Oh, and it used marshmallow Easter peeps for power.
Sorry God, you must be mistaken. That was FroWoman touching me there. We're married. And allowed to do that.
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I don't know what is scarier: that we are alone in the universe - or that we are not alone in the universe.
I think it was Sagan that said it depends on whether their old ladies wear stretch pants.
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Well, for one thing, God would be unlikely to mis-spell "creator" on his own driver's license application.
Mind the Gap
Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving
and revolving at 900 miles an hour,
It's orbiting at 19 miles a second, so it's reckoned,
the sun that is the source of all our power.
The Sun and you and me, and all the stars that we can see,
are moving at a million miles a day,
In the outer spiral arm, at 40,000 miles an hour,
of the Galaxy we call the Milky Way
I wonder if I could get frequent flyer miles for that
We are deducing the possivbility of life from the farts of martians, right? Whatever works, i guess.
We should be looking for weapons of mass destruction. If there's any chance there are any on Mars we should invade it and liberate the Martians.
Doesn't it make you feel good to know that our freedoms are protected by politicans, lawyers and journalists.
On Soviet Mars... ...life searches out *you*.
Might Mars Contain Life?
And it might contain lots of red sterile rocks. Either way the excitement will be just too much for many.