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Miss_Debate · Mar 21, 2005, 09:10 pm

I don't like how people try to prove things about Mars they haven't the faintest clue of! I mean life on Mars!! They either need to send people there or stop assuming stuff! Anyone agree?

Nono · Mar 22, 2005, 04:30 am

No.

It isn't worth sending people there, in my view: costly and of little scientific benefit. Let robots get on with the job.

Nor is it true that we don't have a clue. We don't know a hell of a lot, but we're learning.

Paavo · Mar 22, 2005, 07:04 am

Hey, just ask Extrasense or whatever her/his name is.

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We don't know a hell of a lot, but we're learning.

Indeed. I think we might have a lot to learn from Mars, life or not.

gr8fuldaniel · Mar 22, 2005, 11:33 am

Oh great now extrasense is going to show up with incontrovertible, 3D proof of life on mars. :)

rcne · Mar 22, 2005, 12:08 pm

The only missing ingredient for the soup of life on Mars is liquid water. If under the frozen oceans on Mars there exist hot spots, either thermal vents, tectonic plate pressure or just deep enough trenches to use the planets heat, then I think life in some form may be found.

Methane currently is coming from somewhere and liquid water did exist on the surface previously.

I await the day when life of any form is found off this life-bearing rock. (I want the ultra-religious to explain that one).

gr8fuldaniel · Mar 22, 2005, 03:16 pm

So what if there is life on Mars? Our government would just declare war and loot their resources.
The money could be better used here on earth.

UmSamir · Mar 25, 2005, 05:09 am

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(I want the ultra-religious to explain that one).

Gosh, let's don't! It could get nutz in here.

Mar 21, 2005, 09:10 pm	#1 (permalink) (top)
Miss_Debate Liz Location: Somewhere called Cincinnati Ohio! Posts: 18	I don't like..... I don't like how people try to prove things about Mars they haven't the faintest clue of! I mean life on Mars!! They either need to send people there or stop assuming stuff! Anyone agree?

Mar 22, 2005, 04:30 am	#2 (permalink) (top)
Nono Throbbing Member Location: Old Europe Posts: 7,453	No. It isn't worth sending people there, in my view: costly and of little scientific benefit. Let robots get on with the job. Nor is it true that we don't have a clue. We don't know a hell of a lot, but we're learning. "I wish I was as cocksure of anything as Tom Macaulay is of everything." -- Viscount Melbourne

Mar 22, 2005, 11:33 am	#4 (permalink) (top)
gr8fuldaniel Fire the Liars Location: California Posts: 7,090	Oh great now extrasense is going to show up with incontrovertible, 3D proof of life on mars. :) ~~ Helpful Linx * Huff Post * WRH * RAW STORY ~~ Last edited by gr8fuldaniel; Mar 22, 2005 at 11:41 am. Reason: spelling error (incontrovutable)

Mar 22, 2005, 12:08 pm	#5 (permalink) (top)
rcne Moderator/nobody Posts: 1,566	The only missing ingredient for the soup of life on Mars is liquid water. If under the frozen oceans on Mars there exist hot spots, either thermal vents, tectonic plate pressure or just deep enough trenches to use the planets heat, then I think life in some form may be found. Methane currently is coming from somewhere and liquid water did exist on the surface previously. I await the day when life of any form is found off this life-bearing rock. (I want the ultra-religious to explain that one). Live Long and Prosper (Genetics and Capitalism)

Mar 22, 2005, 03:16 pm	#6 (permalink) (top)
gr8fuldaniel Fire the Liars Location: California Posts: 7,090	So what if there is life on Mars? Our government would just declare war and loot their resources. The money could be better used here on earth. ~~ Helpful Linx * Huff Post * WRH * RAW STORY ~~