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Ancient Mars Could Have Supported Life
sighted writes "NASA is announcing that analysis of a rock sample collected by the Curiosity rover shows ancient Mars could have supported living microbes. Scientists identified sulfur, nitrogen, hydrogen, oxygen, phosphorus and carbon in the powder Curiosity drilled out of a sedimentary rock near an ancient stream bed in Gale Crater last month. The announcement quotes Michael Meyer, lead scientist for NASA's Mars Exploration Program: 'A fundamental question for this mission is whether Mars could have supported a habitable environment. From what we know now, the answer is yes.'"
Ancient Mars decided to go down the Austerity path, and thus life never progressed and never got out of the dinosaur age.
So Mars evolved republicans...
Morgan Fairchild could have made mad passionate love to me last night as my house supports an environment an actress could survive in. Geez, I thought that article on Panspermia was bad...
I swear to God...I swear to God! That is NOT how you treat your human!
'Could' isn't the same as 'did'. I can speculate just as well as the next slashdotter. Mars could have done all sorts of things.
Whew, good thing we had you to point that out for us!
Ah, carry on.
So Mars evolved republicans...
Commies, surely.
Well, they do call it the Red Planet.
Republicans don't evolve. They are intelligently designed.
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