The Indirect Case For Life On Mars

Deinhard writes "Space.com is reporting that '[a] pair of NASA scientists told a group of space officials at a private meeting here Sunday that they have found strong evidence that life may exist today on Mars, hidden away in caves and sustained by pockets of water.' It is all based on methane signatures and not direct observation. Now plans for using the Genesis Device on Mars are out ... unless this is just a particle of preanimate matter caught in the matrix."

Comments

Re:It's not just methane....

[FleaPlus]

Yeah, that's happened to me several times -- I submit a story, only to have it rejected and have another submission pop up several days later, with far fewer details and more innane banter. I think you needed to have references to the Genesis Device in yours.

For example, I've had the following submission already rejected once. Maybe I'm weird, but IMHO it seems very much "News for Nerds" and "Stuff that Matters":

Bigelow to launch CSS Skywalker orbital resort by 2010

Popular Science has a cover feature on self-made billionaire and space enthusiast Robert Bigelow (who's been mentioned before on Slashdot). Bigelow plans to launch a 'CSS Skywalker' orbital resort by 2010 and sell space habitats to others, such as scientists, manufacturers, Hollywood producers, and countries. The habitats will be made of inflatable modules with multilayered kevlar-like walls. A prototype habitat will be launching on a SpaceX Falcon V next year. To help ensure cost-effective access to the station, Bigelow is also running the $50 million America's Space Prize. In the long run, the modules could be the basis for space yachts and moon cruisers.

I tried resubmitting it after changing the title and reorganizing it to make it better somehow, but it's been sitting in the submission queue for about a day now.

Alien Fart

[Space_Soldier]

Have you ever thought that some huge alien many millennia ago past Mars and farted? That could explain the methane.

Environmental impact

[grumpyman]

I urge NASA to refrain from attempting any drilling exploration on Mars as it will seriously disturb the underground biosphere in Mars, hence harming the potential life-forms that they may find. So whatever life-form they find will be dead anyway.

Go America, go

[mrselfdestrukt]

I am sure if there were life on Mars the States would have sent troops there to free them from their opressive regime and in the process lost about 1459 American Soldiers in the name of saving lives...