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RE: Methane sources on Mars
December 17, 2014 at 9:04 pm
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(December 17, 2014 at 8:51 pm)Napoléon Wrote: I'd say it's a very solid assumption actually. Carbon is the most chemically active ingredient in the periodic table (shameless quote from NDT) as well as being one of the most common elements in the universe. The same can't be said for something like silicon. Of all the elements out that we know of, if you were to design a life-form and choose it's make-up, you'd choose carbon.
On another note, anyone have any idea just how likely it is that the source of this methane is organic life? We talking a 10% chance? 50%?
Mars and earth have exchanged material. If life exists or has existed on Mars it is possible it is of the same lineage of life on earth. My gut tells me that if life exists or has existed on Mars.....it is carbon based. Until someone shows me an example of silicone based life, I see no compelling reason the believe it commonly exists.
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RE: Methane sources on Mars
December 18, 2014 at 2:38 am
I'd agree that the probability for life to arise independently on mars than to have shared it very early in. Uf we find something carbon based, the exciting question will be to me - how different us the structure of the genes...
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RE: Methane sources on Mars
December 18, 2014 at 11:54 am
The way I see it life on mars is going to F#%K up religious people. How many utopias did the sky daddy create to have a personal relationship with. How many places did jesus have to die to save them? I can hear it now, Mars is where heaven will be, sky daddy is in the process of creating it for his chosen. That will put us off wanting to go to Mars again.
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RE: Methane sources on Mars
December 18, 2014 at 2:01 pm
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(December 17, 2014 at 9:06 am)ManMachine Wrote: Fartians?
Fortunately I wasn't drinking anything when I read that post. Is it possible to do a spit take with air?
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RE: Methane sources on Mars
December 18, 2014 at 4:38 pm
(December 18, 2014 at 11:54 am)polar bear Wrote: The way I see it life on mars is going to F#%K up religious people. How many utopias did the sky daddy create to have a personal relationship with. How many places did jesus have to die to save them? I can hear it now, Mars is where heaven will be, sky daddy is in the process of creating it for his chosen. That will put us off wanting to go to Mars again.
What are we talking about here, RNA Jesus? Don't be too optimistic, they shrugged off the copernican revolution, and they'll shrug off microbes on mars...
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RE: Methane sources on Mars
December 18, 2014 at 5:08 pm
but just like eventually accepting that the earth is round (most of them) they will HAVE to accept science. They are living proof evolution exists, just look how religion morphs to incorporate given truth's
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RE: Methane sources on Mars
December 18, 2014 at 5:27 pm
(December 18, 2014 at 11:54 am)polar bear Wrote: The way I see it life on mars is going to F#%K up religious people. How many utopias did the sky daddy create to have a personal relationship with. How many places did jesus have to die to save them? I can hear it now, Mars is where heaven will be, sky daddy is in the process of creating it for his chosen. That will put us off wanting to go to Mars again.
The people indoctrinated to believe in God have also been indoctrinated to believe in aliens.
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RE: Methane sources on Mars
December 18, 2014 at 5:49 pm
Not sure if you are joking or not. The unfortunate thing is here in the southern US, the more religious nutty you are is proportionate to being abducted by weird green men.
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RE: Methane sources on Mars
December 18, 2014 at 6:44 pm
I'm not weighing in on a possible biological explanation for the methane, but the surface of Mars is really nasty. The low pressure, cold, UV and the peroxides in the soil, everywhere apparently, make for an EXTREMELY challenging environment for life.
Deep under the surface, however . . .
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RE: Methane sources on Mars
December 18, 2014 at 6:50 pm
Thats what the Wonders of the Solar System episode also advertises. They say that even on earth, there might be more biomass under the surface than above - almost unbelievable
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