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We All May Have a Little Martian In Us
coondoggie writes "Men are supposed to be from Mars as John Gray's iconic relationship book would have you think, but new research presented this week suggests that in reality; we all may hail from the Red Planet. 'The evidence seems to be building that we are actually all Martians; that life started on Mars and came to Earth on a rock. It's lucky that we ended up here nevertheless, as certainly Earth has been the better of the two planets for sustaining life. If our hypothetical Martian ancestors had remained on Mars, there might not have been a story to tell,' Professor Steven Benner of The Westheimer Institute for Science and Technology said."
So let me get this straight ... we have absolutely no proof that there was EVER life on Mars ... but we have enough of something to postulate that life began on Mars and was carried here by a meteorite?
Slashdot's editors wouldn't know science from fantasy if it smacked them in the face. This is utterly ridiculous crap. An 8 year old kids fantasies have more basis in reality than this sort of ignorance.
Shark, slashdot has jumped you.
Life may have originated on mars ... but as far as we know right this instant it could have just as easily evolved on Earth, or titan, or Europa or in the core of the Sun. We have no fucking clue why there is life here and these sort of fantasies are just obnoxious click-bait for morons thanks to the inept editing skills of slashdots 'editors'
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So you're saying science and scientists are totally untrustworthy.
Of course they are. In today's scientific climate of "publish or die", that can pretty much be taken for a given. The nature of scientific theories allows others to verify the findings, but few are going to get attaboy from their sponsors for "merely" verifying what others discovered, so there's not nearly enough work on that.
So yes, there are quite a bit of BS out there. Some of it will persist for a while, but eventually most everything will be well verified or refuted. But not immediately, not today.