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RE: Methane sources on Mars
December 17, 2014 at 4:42 pm
Have any of you seen the last episode of "Wonders of the Solar System" with Brian Cox? (not of the stoner system  , which was about extremophiles and life in the solar system.
I though it was pretty awesome, but I'm a complete layperson when it comes to that stuff.
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RE: Methane sources on Mars
December 17, 2014 at 4:44 pm
(December 17, 2014 at 4:42 pm)Alex K Wrote: Have any of you seen the last episode of "Wonders of the Solar System" with Brian Cox? (not of the stoner system , which was about extremophiles and life in the solar system.
I though it was pretty awesome, but I'm a complete layperson when it comes to that stuff.
No, I haven't seen the series at all. I'll look for it.
I'm not a cosmologist but I absolutely love astronomy and anything to do with space.
A good website to check out is Phil Plait's Bad Astronomy.
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RE: Methane sources on Mars
December 17, 2014 at 4:54 pm
(December 17, 2014 at 4:42 pm)Alex K Wrote: Have any of you seen the last episode of "Wonders of the Solar System" with Brian Cox? (not of the stoner system , which was about extremophiles and life in the solar system.
I though it was pretty awesome, but I'm a complete layperson when it comes to that stuff.
I probably have, but I was probably baked.
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RE: Methane sources on Mars
December 17, 2014 at 4:56 pm
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(December 17, 2014 at 4:54 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: (December 17, 2014 at 4:42 pm)Alex K Wrote: Have any of you seen the last episode of "Wonders of the Solar System" with Brian Cox? (not of the stoner system , which was about extremophiles and life in the solar system.
I though it was pretty awesome, but I'm a complete layperson when it comes to that stuff.
I probably have, but I was probably baked.
It's that kind of show, isn't it...
(December 17, 2014 at 4:44 pm)Beccs Wrote: (December 17, 2014 at 4:42 pm)Alex K Wrote: Have any of you seen the last episode of "Wonders of the Solar System" with Brian Cox? (not of the stoner system , which was about extremophiles and life in the solar system.
I though it was pretty awesome, but I'm a complete layperson when it comes to that stuff.
No, I haven't seen the series at all. I'll look for it.
I'm not a cosmologist but I absolutely love astronomy and anything to do with space.
A good website to check out is Phil Plait's Bad Astronomy.
I'm somewhat of a nearly cosmologist (particle physics, field theory, dark matter) but that episode was mostly on biology and chemistry, about which you're more of an expert.
Know Plait of course, should read him more often tho!
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RE: Methane sources on Mars
December 17, 2014 at 5:07 pm
Curiosity found evidence of Horta on Mars. 
Here is a photo it took of a Horta coprolite.
![[Image: mars_metal.jpg]](https://images.weserv.nl/?url=regmedia.co.uk%2F2013%2F02%2F09%2Fmars_metal.jpg)
And here is one of an actual Horta.
![[Image: 8273082606_9eb692ff8e_z.jpg]](https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8494/8273082606_9eb692ff8e_z.jpg)
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RE: Methane sources on Mars
December 17, 2014 at 5:14 pm
We should start a pool for when the first theistic asshole shows up to say 'goddidit.'
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RE: Methane sources on Mars
December 17, 2014 at 5:15 pm
(December 17, 2014 at 5:14 pm)Minimalist Wrote: We should start a pool for when the first theistic asshole shows up to say 'goddidit.'
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RE: Methane sources on Mars
December 17, 2014 at 5:38 pm
(December 17, 2014 at 5:14 pm)Minimalist Wrote: We should start a pool for when the first theistic asshole shows up to say 'goddidit.'
I'm not sure they dare, considering the theoflatulogical significance of such a claim.
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RE: Methane sources on Mars
December 17, 2014 at 7:45 pm
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It will be interesting to see if these spikes in methane gas are seasonal.
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RE: Methane sources on Mars
December 17, 2014 at 8:47 pm
(December 17, 2014 at 4:01 pm)polar bear Wrote: (December 17, 2014 at 3:42 pm)Beccs Wrote: Hope this helps
Thanks, it did!
Arent we a bit narrow minded to think that the way we live, die and decay will be the same process on different locations in the universe? It just so happens that we have evolved to breathe oxygen and expel carbon dioxide, and our plant system does this in reverse. Couldn't other forms of life (not necessarily human) breathe and expel different gasses. If we change the gases breathed and expelled, I am certain when we decay a different gas would be present.
Am I really off base on this? This fascinates me, I wish I would have studied science instead of finance in school.
It might seem so, but chemistry tells us what is possible and likely. In an environment even vaguely like Earth's, carbon-based life is the overwhelmingly likely possibility - no other element can do what carbon does.
Methane is a very simple compound, so any carbon-based life would very likely produce methane if only when decomposing.
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