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Might Mars Contain Life?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the at-least-as-much-as-that-tupperware-in-my-fridge dept.

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."

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  1. Why not do an easier search instead by Gorm+the+DBA · · Score: 4, Funny
    Why not search for intelligent life inside of Congress/the RIAA/The Supreme Court/The Republican Party?

    Oh, wait...they're hoping to Succeed...silly me.

  2. Different Impressions by KoopaTroopa · · Score: 5, Funny

    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!

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    1. Re:Different Impressions by TopShelf · · Score: 5, Funny

      So would these lifeforms be called Fartians???

      sorry, couldn't help myself...

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    2. Re:Different Impressions by ch-chuck · · Score: 4, Funny

      Actually, it's not the folks but the microbes that live in them.

      Funny quote from the above link:

      In human hospitals, there have been many explosions in the colon triggered by use of electrocautery performed through a proctosigmoidoscope.

      So be careful out there.

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  3. That's nice by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    We send multi-billion dollar probes to Mars to discover microbes farting.

  4. Its been known for a long time.... by curtisk · · Score: 4, Funny

    .......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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  5. Re:Finding life on Mars - the cliche anthology by Schezar · · Score: 4, Funny

    On Soviet Mars...

    Ha! The -red- planet! Ha!

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  6. Close encounters... by mtrupe · · Score: 4, Funny

    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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  7. Martian Cult by zapod4 · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  8. Re:Sagan by Yunzil · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.