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Ammonia Could Indicate Life On Mars
Young Master writes "Just seen this story on good old Auntie Beeb, apparently traces of ammonia have been found in the Martian atmosphere. Ammonia doesn't last long on Mars, so it must be constantly replenished - it could be active volcanoes (none yet found), or it could indicate life..." Along with the detection of methane, Mars is starting to look a lot less dead than had been supposed.
Let's send them some bleach, that'll take care of that problem
Ammonia, eh? Either Mars has life or just really clean windows....
Great! Not only do we know that there are aliens in Mars, but that they pee and fart just like us!
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the Wong's have all those herds. Of course they have methane and ammonia. Duh.
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Gassy neat freaks.
"folks, we've discovered life on mars, and boy, is it stinky!"
-ninjaneer
It was just the Martians giving Beagle a good clean up before they show it of to the Saturnians (they are really proud of their collection of landers on Mars).
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What truth?
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It's probably just left over from the filming of Total Recall.
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Now lets harvest it and turn it into cleaning products.
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It smells like a bathroom.
If you can read this sig - the bitch fell off.
Does it indicate the insidious presence of Mr. Clean??
Who knows what evil lurks in the shiny surfaces...
has some traces of perfume and lipstick it would settle beyond any doubt that men are indeed from mars and women are from venus.
I mean, if there's life, they're gonna need something to clean their windows.
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Face hell, I'm still pissed off over that whole canal fiasco!
Is it fascism yet?
... what if we get to Mars, find microbes, look into the microscope, and they all look like this!
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A dry sandy place with only ammonia and methane, sounds like a giant cat box, but where are the martian kitties? M
I had the same exact thought! Now those scientists must look for another compound to prove it beyond any reasonable doubt: Methane.
We know we have already contaminated Mars. This could just be evidence that the clean room environments we built the Mars crasher ^M^M^M^M^M^M^M polar explorers in, were not clean.
For the conspiricist:
Was there a sinister (living) payload in the polar explorers? There is a lot of funding to be gained.
Get a free ipod.
... somebody cleaned the sensor array with "Windex" prior to mission launch.
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Nah, Viruses are unlife. I mean, have you ever seen one under a microscope? Or at least a picture of one? They are these strange, skeletal monsters that possess other living organisms, eat their brains and turn them into zombified machines.
I'm sure that when amoeba tell horror stories to each other, it all involves viruses taking over amoeba-kind.
haven't you heard of extreme bible thumping?
Isn't Xtreme Bible Thumping (XBT) where pairs of bible-thumpers work together to get the thumping done more quickly? They subsist on Mountain Dew and Snickers bars? I think there's an O'Reilly book or two on it...
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Like this.
I bet there are areas on earth shaped like a man's dingdong
Funny you should mention that. Euro coins have an map of the EU embossed on them.
There's a reason we wish Norway would join already.
I've heard that we no longer have to murder babies to harvest the stem cells...
Oh, please! Nobdy murders babies to harvest stem cells. Harvesting stem cells is an added bonus to murdering babies! It's like, hey, I got that baby murdered (awesome!) and then I get free stem cells to boot (woo-woo!) It's win-win!
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