New Clue for Life on Mars?

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Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday September 20, 2004 @05:47AM from the but-i-wouldn't-wanna-live-there dept.

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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It's probably... by ackthpt · 2004-09-20 05:49 · Score: 5, Funny

It's probably a bug that once exposed to humanity will wipe it out.
all but the 5th planet are yours, oh, you might want to avoid that nasty 4th planet, too..

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If there's no life on Mars by Anonymous Coward · 2004-09-20 05:53 · Score: 3, Funny

Where the hell do the Martians come from?
Re:Water!! by Trigun · 2004-09-20 05:53 · Score: 4, Funny

Stop drinking it and I'll tell you in a week.
afterlife by Doc+Ruby · 2004-09-20 05:53 · Score: 4, Funny

Vampires don't breathe, and they're teeming beneath the dried-blood surface of Mars. Those telltale methane/water signals must be more residue from the victims from which the iron-rich surface powder was derived, shielding the biters from the rays of the Sun.

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silly h00mans by Anonymous Coward · 2004-09-20 05:55 · Score: 3, Funny

The martians have your rover in a containment unit that makes you humans think that you're exploring their world!
1. Re: silly h00mans by Black+Parrot · 2004-09-20 06:18 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  > The martians have your rover in a containment unit that makes you humans think that you're exploring their world!
  
  And the funny part is that the containment unit is in Arizona!
  
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ObQuotes by YetAnotherName · 2004-09-20 05:55 · Score: 3, Funny
- I for one welcome our new Martian overlords.
- Methane? See, overfarming of cattle on Mars is what wiped them out and the same thing is happen here!
- All your Mars are belong to us.
- Martian business plan
  1. Advertise life-supporting real estate
  2. ???
  3. Profit!
- Don't we have a Starbucks on Mars already?
- Where's the Cowboy Neal option?
Of Course by bluewee · 2004-09-20 05:56 · Score: 4, Funny

the Wong's have all those herds. Of course they have methane and ammonia. Duh.

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Alternating Bands of Water and Methane by Prince+Vegeta+SSJ4 · 2004-09-20 05:57 · Score: 4, Funny

Found on Uranus. Especially after drinking a few too many Beers and eating some mexican food.
In Related News... by Artie_Effim · 2004-09-20 06:02 · Score: 4, Funny

Noted scientist Marvin, native to Mars, had disclosed his observations concerning the 3rd planet from the Sun. From his latest discourse "... ohhh, you are making me very angry.." Critics agree, he is green with envy and possibly has access to a BFG. One warns "... be on the lookout for a 'flying saucer' type craft in the Earth's moon's orbit..." and suggests getting some local wildlife, perhaps a rabbit, to meet the threat. Stay tuned for details.
Funding problems? by bluewee · 2004-09-20 06:03 · Score: 3, Funny

If NASA were to say collect some of the water vapor, bottle it, and get it back here, then they would have no need for goverment funding...

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Re:Water!! by Scrameustache · 2004-09-20 07:17 · Score: 3, Funny

the Horseshoe Crab, which isn't actually a crab, but a 350 million year old ancestor of spiders. It's blood is actually based on copper

The most logical of all crabs... ;-)

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