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New Clue for Life on Mars?
thhamm writes "Recent analyses of ESA's Mars Express data reveal that concentrations of water vapour and methane in the atmosphere of Mars significantly overlap. This result, from data obtained by the Planetary Fourier Spectrometer (PFS), gives a boost to understanding of geological and atmospheric processes on Mars, and provides important new hints to evaluate the hypothesis of present life on the Red Planet."
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i.e a planet....
I own a pump action golf ball cannon. I made it myself.
If you studied some chemistry and biology you might get a clue.
Chemistry tells us that carbon and water are very special substances, exhibiting many properties that I am too lazy to bore you with.
Evolutionary biology tells us that "nature", if you'll excuse the personification, pretty much tries all possibilities at random and selects the ones that work.
And, like the other guy said, we can only build sensors for things we know very well.
I dunno, my life's been pretty cool. On the other hand, if you're an example of a rough life, I'd say yes.
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