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Methane On Mars May Indicate Living Planet
Riding with Robots writes "NASA is announcing today that the definitive detection of methane in the Martian atmosphere means the planet is still alive, at least geologically, and perhaps even biologically. 'Methane is quickly destroyed in the Martian atmosphere in a variety of ways, so our discovery of substantial plumes of methane in the northern hemisphere of Mars indicates some ongoing process is releasing the gas,' said one agency scientist. The gas was detected with observations made over over several Martian years with NASA telescopes at Mauna Kea, Hawaii. Both biological and geological processes could explain the methane."
Mars is farting, hehe.
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I think I heard somewhere that methane gas contributes to Global Warming. If Mars is going through Global Warming shouldn't it be renamed to Solar, or even Universal, Warming?
They'll destroy their environment! If they don't slap some limits on those gas emissions, or come up with a workable credit-trading plan, they'll end up with a dry, dusty, desert planet in no time!
I prefer rogues to imbeciles because they sometimes take a rest.
So the martians weren't knocking out our probes because they thought we were attacking - they were just embarrassed about the smell. And to be honest, this revelation does lower my opinion of martians. I think a few eons of evolution might help to teach them some manners.
The English word fart is one of the oldest words in the English vocabulary.
It's coming form the under ground city's there.
Meth on Mars may indicate Martians who need to go to rehab.
OK, but I don't really care about Methane on Mars. I'm REALLY worried about Methane from Uranus.
There... is that the joke you were expecting?
there's still an active process on Mars that's putting it there
Oh, that's just James. He had beans for lunch again.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
Yeah, but that's the ESA and the BBC. This time it's an AMERICAN agency reporting on it, so it's newsworthy goddammit!
I bet Uranus has tons of Methane emmisions.
"The gas was detected with observations made over several Martian years with NASA smeloscopes at Mauna Kea, Hawaii."
Is the question "Is there oil on Mars?"
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Wait, methane = life? So that's why aliens always begin with our anuses when studying us.
Property is theft.