RE: Mars landing in about 2 hours
August 7, 2012 at 1:40 pm
(This post was last modified: August 7, 2012 at 1:42 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(August 7, 2012 at 1:17 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote: If they find life on Mars would that automatically be a bar to terraforming it?
Would it be too dangerous to send people if there are alien microbes?
I wouldn't not think so on both counts.
The ability to infect another organism is a costly biological feature whose existence must be justified. Evolution rewards parsimony and it would be a sign of strange extravagance for Martian microbes to already possess the ability to infect earth organisms it couldn't possibly have touched until now.
(August 7, 2012 at 7:33 am)jonb Wrote:(August 7, 2012 at 4:13 am)Tiberius Wrote: CONSPIRACY!!!
They never have explained this photo from Mars-
Which is obviously a mermaid smoking a cigarette.
No tits, no mermaid.