So let me get this right you are against gloablization because it might affect your software job but your for Opensource.
With globalisation we see a rising middle class in other countires with disposable income. Which in turn will want to buy things including high price quality import good. I see this as a huge export opportunity. No business can remain static or isolated in a true capitalist system...but I guess you don't really want capitialism do you
Actually all this tells you is that Hydrogen Peroxide is a good catalyst for ozone in the Martian upper atmosphere. True having a thicker ozone layer would certainly benefit life by shielding more UV from penetrating to the surface.
So mars has a thin ozone layer..But to put that in perspective over the first 25km of the earths atmosphere Ozone is only 0.000004% by volume.
Ozone is also very destructive to organic life so keping it in check actually a plus point for life
I have doubts about this interpretation of the data for Hydrogen peroxide as being significant at the surface.
My chemistry is pretty non existant so maybe someone can help me with this but my understanding is that Hydrogen peroxide is pretty oxidising. So if it was present in any degree at the surface you would be unlikely to find large amounts of hematite that are currently being reported by the rock analysis tools.
IANABiologist but with respect to energy sources other than Carbon. Both Sulphur and Iron in that order of preference work just fine on earth. The latter i believe being associated more with anoxic marine muds.
Think this is probably a red herring. Although Hydrogen peroxide does exist in the atmosphere it is in trace amount and actually acts to reduce the ozone in the higher martian atmosphere. There has been no evidence to date that I can see that there is a anything strongly reative at the surface which would prevent life.
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So let me get this right you are against gloablization because it might affect your software job but your for Opensource. With globalisation we see a rising middle class in other countires with disposable income. Which in turn will want to buy things including high price quality import good. I see this as a huge export opportunity. No business can remain static or isolated in a true capitalist system...but I guess you don't really want capitialism do you
For sure if there is something there its going to be a tough little Bast&%d
Actually all this tells you is that Hydrogen Peroxide is a good catalyst for ozone in the Martian upper atmosphere. True having a thicker ozone layer would certainly benefit life by shielding more UV from penetrating to the surface. So mars has a thin ozone layer..But to put that in perspective over the first 25km of the earths atmosphere Ozone is only 0.000004% by volume. Ozone is also very destructive to organic life so keping it in check actually a plus point for life
I have doubts about this interpretation of the data for Hydrogen peroxide as being significant at the surface. My chemistry is pretty non existant so maybe someone can help me with this but my understanding is that Hydrogen peroxide is pretty oxidising. So if it was present in any degree at the surface you would be unlikely to find large amounts of hematite that are currently being reported by the rock analysis tools. IANABiologist but with respect to energy sources other than Carbon. Both Sulphur and Iron in that order of preference work just fine on earth. The latter i believe being associated more with anoxic marine muds.
Think this is probably a red herring. Although Hydrogen peroxide does exist in the atmosphere it is in trace amount and actually acts to reduce the ozone in the higher martian atmosphere. There has been no evidence to date that I can see that there is a anything strongly reative at the surface which would prevent life.