(January 14, 2016 at 8:24 am)Stimbo Wrote:(January 13, 2016 at 11:48 pm)Beccs Wrote: And I'll predict we find some form of microbial life on at least one other planet or moon in our solar system before the turn of the century.
The data isn't fully in yet and the jury still out, but the methane detected by the Curiosity rover on Mars may just be microbially produced. Geophysicist Vladimir Krasnopolsky - who may have to change his field to Areophysics - has said that since the planet has been geologically inactive for the last few million years, biological processes may be the more plausible explanation. And he's from the Catholic University of America.
Great, there's CH4, but its one of the simplest molecules, and its presence is very far from proving life existed there.