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NASA: If There Was Life On Mars, It Was Likely Underground
coondoggie writes "NASA issued a study today that said if life ever existed on Mars, the longest lasting environments were most likely below the planet's surface. The hypothesis comes from analyzing tons of mineral data gathered over the years from more than 350 sites on Mars gathered by NASA and European Space Agency Mars space probes."
nuff said
Hipster UFO conspiracy theorist says "I was abducted and probed by Martians when they were still underground"
Wait. What?
Hipster martians were totally underground, which is why you've never heard of them before
And that's why I bought a Saturn.
reports all coming in from all from all over the world flying saucers are attacking from mars it's a attack from mars.
Yes there is, and it's been well documented.
This term seems to be here used as a figure of speech. Maybe a less-confusing, less provocative term could have been used?
Their they're doing there hair.
Is NASA desperate for funding right now?
So the dust isn't hundreds of meters deep, and there are no spear-toting maniacs, nor any diamond wells, but he at least guessed the underground bit...
Not a sentence!
If you dig into the mines on Mars, you can find the underground tunnels the aliens built. There is a control center with an activation button that starts a nuclear reactor that melts the ice and creates oxygen. The boss selling air on Mars tried to kill both Arnold and his girlfriend and keep them from starting it up, but he fired a gun through the glass and caused the dome to crack and depressurize. He was then sucked outside (where he died since there was no air outside yet). The violent depressurization sucked Arnold and his girlfriend outside too, but before he got sucked out, Arnold managed to put his hand on the alien start button, starting the reactor. It got very hot very fast and pressed into the gracier, creating oxygen. Arnold and his girlfriend choked for a while but did not die. The sudden change in air pressure caused all the remaining domes to crack. So for sure there was life on Mars, and there is alien technology down there too. Its all right here.
Haven't you seen Apollo 18! It's the rocks man they are in teh fuckin rocks!
As in past tense. Seems someone is making an assumption.
You are being MICROattacked, from various angles, in a SOFT manner.
living in moms below ground basement rec room. couldnt evolve enough to survive above ground. asexual reproduction led to fewer useful variations in form. they had good internet forums, though.
Haven't I seen the same thing a couple of weeks ago in Pioneer One Ep5?
There was new data this year indicating subsurface water ice from two synthetic radars (SHARAD and MARSIS at different frequencies on two different landers).
They have estimates for the volume and placement of the ice as well.
http://www.jsg.utexas.edu/news/feats/2010/mars_glaciers.html
An original finding from 2002 based on a single Gamma Ray Spectrometer instrument showed excess Hydrogen...
http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2002/28may_marsice/
And now even more extensive results from long term surface studies... I find the recent subsurface radar measurements most compelling.
NASA: "Life on Mars" expectations are getting lame. We're moving them underground so nobody can disprove us and we'll more likely get the budget for bigger mars missions.
Whether you think they're quacks or not, or never even heard of them, they present some very interesting and entertaining beliefs about the history of Mars. They believed Mars flourished with life and go into great detail describing the civilisation and how they survived in the harsh condition. It'll be interesting to see how much our recent discovery support such ideas. Here's an excerpt, makes for good sci-fi like reading:
http://www.redicecreations.com/specialreports/2006/07jul/leadblavatskymarslife.html
Seems very plausible that life survived longest underground. As the planet heats up (and gets freezing cold at night) it's impossible (as far as we think at the moment) for anything to live on the surface. So life migrates/focuses on subsurface environments.
A 12-year old could get to this conclusion!
Okay, I know that only know they have proven it. Science = proving theories.
I wonder if global warming drove them underground.
I have seen some photos from the Mars Explorer that clearly show Thoat, Calot, and Mad Zitidar tracks. Nasa refuses to acknowledge this. If you look at the pictures from the Valley Dor, just above the lost sea of Korus, it's obvious.
* Carthago Delenda Est *
Do you have any idea how much money DoD squanders every year? Usually between 300 and 500 million dollars.
Up yours, troll.
who thinks this was pretty obvious without a NASA funded study?
Please do not read this sig. Thank you.
Anyone who's ever played X-Com has known for years that the alien HQ on Mars was underground.
Time to hunt some Sectoids...
Scientists have found microbes in five mile deep wells that have been buried for tens of millions of years. They were either buried too, or percolated very slowly from ground water. Mars, which is more geologically stable than Earth, may likely have these too.
The nuclear-powered Curiosity "Martian SUV rover" launches the day after Thanksgiving. I'll try to make the launch. It was two years late and a billion dollars over budget. Its is the final funded probe in a 15 year successful run of orbiters and a 6 landers, due to US financial troubles. If it is as durable as the current rovers, it could keep scientists busy for the rest of the decade.
After a few more satellite observers in the pipeline for 2012, its looks very dismal for NASA's unmanned space programs.
indicating subsurface water ice from two synthetic radars
What other kind is there? :)
You are not the customer.
Dry ice.
No-one ever expected to make money from NASA. They do from Ponzi schemes.
Is 1563649 a prime number?
We live in an expanding universe. Perhaps that is only a theory, but in the same light it should be easy to see that Mars may have at one time been the same distance from the sun as the earth is now. That would have been the right distance to harbor life as Earth does now. An expanding Solar system is not so hard to imagine. Maybe there was a 'book of life' written for Mars a long, long, long time ago.
My theory is that Mars was more like the Earth, and one day started violently spewing out its molten iron core and interacted with the water to oxidate the iron. Once a sufficient amount was ejected from the core, the magnetosphere was lost and the solar winds stripped away the atmosphere.
If true, that might explain an excess of hydrogen.
I want to play again :(
Well, obviously--canals are built below ground level.
Welcome our new underground martian overlords!
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reports all coming in from all from all over the world flying saucers are attacking from mars it's a attack from mars.
Why don't we just direct them to Uranus?
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Life Is Everywhere or just, as it happens, everywhere we go - there life is? Obviously.
They say once upon a time the moon was 'dead, barren and lifeless' with neither a virus nor a bug to be found. But, no more!
For - from 1969, as Ordered by JFK, said moon was invaded by all manner of bacteria and viruses carried there by a few humanoid explorers.
Imagine that.
Now check out these testimonials!
"Project Pegasus" vs "Jon Titor" in google and on coasttocoast net radio etc.
Compelling stuff!
Are we not being 'psychologically prepared' for the inevitable - is a better question - is it not?