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Mars Rock Supports Cross-Seeding Theory
914 writes "Mars rover Opportunity has found a rock (nicknamed 'Bounce') that "provides conclusive evidence not only of Martian meteorites on Earth, but also of the possibility of cross-seeding." Not only that, but according to the UPI article: 'The discovery of Bounce raises the distinct possibility that life arising from a common source could have existed for a time on both worlds.'"
Now let me get this straight: NASA found a Mars rock that was a lot like a few rocks found on Earth that came from meteorites. And who's to say that a little bit of life didn't stick to one of the meteoric rocks that flew around the cosmos for a few bazillion years until it hit the Earth and then flew all the way back to Mars and eventually caused Eath and Mars both to have life on them? And furthermore since water was found there too, there must be, or have been, life on Mars.
Got it. In fact, this article proves a pet theory of mine too.
The Apollo rocketships that carried men to the moon always did look eerily similar to the Mercury rocketships that brought men into orbit, and they quite similar to the Gemini rocketships before them. Pretty freaky. And they were in outer space too. Hey -- I know -- one of them bounced off Mars and hit the earth and the next thing you know we have all kinds of different rocketships. Wow that's amazing. And all this time I thought they were created by intelligent creatures who built them for a specific purpose... And I have seen pictures of simlilar metallic lifeforms on Mars and the moon. That must be it: they evolved all on their own from stuff flying around on meteors that bounced off planets I'll call it the "Cosmic Ricochet" theory, then argue in open court that I should be allowed to teach it on free speech theory, and then proclaim I even proved I was right in court. Wonder where Darrow is these days...
Man what a dupe I've been. All those who say someone created those rocketships are now so obviously stupid, just plain stupid. It's obvious they evolved from one another due to survival of the fittest and natural selection. They were all inferior to what we see now, so they died out. All according to Erasmus Darwin's theories. It's now fact. Thanks for clearing that up. Now that I know that simple metallic creatures can evolve into sophisticated intergallactic travellers all by themselves, I'm now less skeptical that something as complex and interdependent as Earth's billions of varied lifeforms that require each other to live in a dynamic but very detailed symbiotic, mutualistic system did all by blind chance.
And -- hey!!! -- now I don't have to worry about the environment because life will just evolve and adapt to the new changes. Global warming raising sea levels? Who cares, we'll get gills just like we got lungs. And I read the Blind Watchmaker. According to that work of genius, all we have to do is keep throwing people into the water enough times and viola! they'll be all set. Just like it happened with the flying squirrel working things out by jumping out of trees and 'naturally selecting' all that flabby skin and flight into existence.
Thanks, I feel so enlightened now. And go ahead, mod it down into oblivion. At least I know that nobody "created" rocketships. I'm way smarter than all you "rocketship creationists".