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- TheDeepFriar, on 03/20/2009, -6/+26I, for one, welcome our new muddy overlords!
- hooah212002, on 03/20/2009, -6/+23i have a feeling that the scientist that finds life somewhere else will somehow disappear all of a sudden. The church will claim no part in this.
- Metasquares, on 03/22/2009, -1/+13If we find life next door, it kind of shatters the notion that it's unusual.
- inactive, on 03/20/2009, -5/+16ancient egyptians weren't carving hieroglyphics on stone based on imagination. those were our birdmen/lizardmen slave masters who brought us here from mars eons ago. i don't know why people don't understand this.
- Nouman6, on 03/22/2009, -0/+7maybe I should get some mars real estate before the market changes.
- darknecross, on 03/22/2009, -1/+8Is the incredibly suggestive title of the article assuring it contains completely speculative information based on hunches which are themselves based on hunches and presenting a fantastical idea without the slightest shred of empirical evidence?
Sorry, I just get mad at these articles that present an idea the author came up with to sound catchy. In the entire article, there's just a one-sentence quote even mentioning organisms, and it doesn't help that it is engorged by "could"'s, "would"'s, and "might"'s. - Spoomeister, on 03/22/2009, -0/+5I keep waiting for one of these probes to see something, or touch down on the surface somewhere, and then Mars cracks open like a giant egg and unleashes some bizarre space dragon or something.
- scojerroc, on 03/22/2009, -0/+5"Muddy squirts"? That's what I get when I eat Mars Bars.
- Munk3y, on 03/22/2009, -0/+4What's with the question mark? Are you asking for approval to use a statement?
- inactive, on 03/22/2009, -3/+7i'm sick of articles about life on mars with 0 evidence. The title suggests life, the article does not.
- nepidae, on 03/22/2009, -0/+3The closest stargate is on Abydos, not mars.
- DickyT83, on 03/22/2009, -2/+5Is life bubbling up in Mars mud butt?
- L0NER, on 03/22/2009, -3/+6practicing my martin and buying 1930's country western vinyl
Gak lack! glacatack!!! - mastersmite, on 03/22/2009, -0/+3nice ninja edit there LilRabbitFooFoo...
- BushidoReverend, on 03/22/2009, -0/+3Dugg for Mars Attacks.
- AladinSane, on 03/22/2009, -0/+3Yeah, but we haven't, so it doesn't.
- Munk3y, on 03/23/2009, -0/+3Ah, I see what you did there. The only problem is that I asked an actual question. You have to actually be correct to make that work.
Let's take time out and find out why MasterGrief wants to spread misery and hate on the internet. I'll make some guesses and we can see how close I get.
1. Retail wage jockey
2. Doesn't get laid often or possibly at all
3. Thinks he's smart, so he makes up results of IQ tests to impress others
4. Hates the world, so he gets even by posting messages that are sad attempts at being witty on the internet - SpeedSteamBoat, on 03/22/2009, -0/+3That's not mud...
- waynehoggett, on 03/22/2009, -5/+7Maybe the mud is JESUS! PRAISE THE LORD!
- inactive, on 03/22/2009, -1/+3Yes, I know, the bible-brigade is going to Digg me down. That's fine. You crazy kids are going to lose more and more power in the USA as time goes on, so if it makes you feel high and mighty to bury me now, go for it. But eventually you will be burried in a much bigger way. Thump-Thump!
- TheTorontonian, on 03/22/2009, -0/+2Imagine if this becomes more fact than speculation, even if it were fossilized! Multinational Corporations are going to be fists over teeth to collect patents and land claims. Too bad, I call shotgun on Olympus Mons, bitches!
If you read the above statement then you are my witnesses. - inactive, on 03/22/2009, -1/+3The only bad thing about finding life on Mars, as in currently alive creepy-crawlies, is that we really wouldn't be able to go there again in the future because of fear that we would contaminate or kill off said life. I mean, we are already killing enough critters here on good ol' Earth. Probably would be a good idea not to ***** with life on other worlds.
- ArthasMenethil, on 03/22/2009, -0/+2Where's my mudkip?
- mastersmite, on 03/22/2009, -0/+2crap, wrong reply link...
- Khast, on 03/22/2009, -1/+3For one, if evolution is correct. Who's to say that anything found would match our definition of how life works. What if the evolutionary ladder takes a different branch, and say the life forms breathe Nitrogen, like we breathe Oxygen. Wouldn't this have a possibility of such creatures not even depending on liquid water?
I know it sounds kind of crazy to science, but we do like to bring up evolution...and isn't this idea the whole bloody concept of evolution? - robbiedo, on 03/22/2009, -0/+2How would the religious bananas deal with the eventual discovery of life on Mars? It's going to happen, and probably in the next ten years.
Then NASA will ship some back to Earth, and use it as the basis to cure cancer...or the Andromeda strain. - MasterGrief, on 03/22/2009, -0/+2Bible-brigade on digg? What is that, like six people? You're just a jerk.
- MasterGrief, on 03/22/2009, -3/+5Speaking backwards sounds stupid?
- LonelyTylenoL, on 03/22/2009, -1/+3I'd like to see this interesting mud being studied, but in a way where it doesn't harm or interfere any chemical reactions that might be going on. We might then be able to observe life forming on it's own, and prove that life on Earth most likely formed in this way.
- RobotBuddha, on 03/22/2009, -0/+2The actual crazy religious people, the creationists and their ilk, won't care. I've been watching the culture long enough to realize that 'nothing' will change their mind. We've managed to create actual new traits in a lab by chance in a species, with actual frozen samples of every step along the way, and they're still holding their hands up over their eyes.
- DeathfireD, on 03/22/2009, -0/+2Nothing would happen. Not all people that believe in god or read the bible believe humans are the only living thing in the universe rofl. Most, if not all, believe that god created humans in his image. He created everything around us including the rocks, trees...etc. So even if life was found on a different planet, they would just say it was god's work and that he willed it.
- inactive, on 03/22/2009, -1/+3Thump-Thump!
- jrackow, on 03/23/2009, -0/+2no.
- TheTorontonian, on 03/22/2009, -0/+1Shheess, and I thought everyone knew that. Silly Nasa.
- concactus, on 03/22/2009, -1/+2yes
- AladinSane, on 03/22/2009, -1/+2Neither one of you seem to grasp the fact that H2O isn't the "magical formula" for Life. Sure, organic life on Earth requires it... but then, it also requires Carbon, Oxygen, and a complex variety of other nutrients. Water exists in vast quantities in our Solar System. There's big chunks of it in the Asteroid belt, as well as large amounts in Saturn's rings. Water does not = Life. It's just one small part of the sustaining elements that go towards perpetuating Life as e currently know it on Earth.
- Khast, on 03/22/2009, -0/+1no, we aren't alone. I would hardly believe that we are alone, as large as the known universe is. I also believe in dimensions (Which I also think could be a key in traversing such distances in a relatively short time....aka "A Pinch in Time" )
- BushidoReverend, on 03/22/2009, -1/+2I have no idea why you're being Dugg down, AladinSane.
- DredPir8Robrts, on 03/24/2009, -0/+1And exactly why that threatens so many people says a lot about human nature
- magamiako, on 03/22/2009, -0/+1Khast:
It's possible, but we don't know quite for certain. Here's the catch--the only life we are sure of is here on our planet. It's the only life we know of, and as such it's the only thing we have to go by when it comes to understanding what comes together to cause the processes to happen.
And for what it's worth, I would expect that life on our nearest neighbors would actually be quite similar to some sort of life we find on earth. Though it is quite possible it isn't, but we don't know for sure until we find some.
It will raise far, far more questions than it answers. Though it answers one of the largest questions of humanity: Are we alone in the universe? - SilverBack101, on 03/22/2009, -0/+1Or, if the planet itself is just one big entity.
- LonelyTylenoL, on 03/22/2009, -0/+1Dude, don't copy other people.
- RobotBuddha, on 03/22/2009, -0/+1Wait a minute, are you suggesting pop science reporters are willing to twist evidence they don't even understand in order to make it more newsworthy!
- ProfessorRiffs, on 03/22/2009, -0/+1Well no *****.....
- lars5, on 03/22/2009, -0/+1addendum:
i, for one, welcome our new muddy micro bacterial martian overlords!
and ask that they do not try to blow us up with an illudium Q-36 explosive space modulator because we obstruct their view of venus. - oilcan, on 03/22/2009, -0/+1Like they would tell us if they actually found any life forms there.
- seanstuart, on 03/23/2009, -0/+1Oh for Chris'sake, make the life-on-mars articles stop. How long ago did we pass the put-up-or-shut-up line?
- LilRabbitFooFoo, on 03/20/2009, -2/+3
- counterplex, on 03/22/2009, -0/+1Hahaha excellent! I call driver! Stick that in your pipe and smoke it.
And yes, you are _my_ witnesses too :) - Munk3y, on 03/23/2009, -0/+1@Kestrel: Way to assume! At what point did I argue against that? I commented that the OP seems ignorant. Rather than ask WHY I think he's ignorant, you assume and argue. Why would anyone do that? The reason is because you're so dependent on what you've been told, that any challenge to it makes you hostile to possible naysayers. It's the same ignorance that got the thread started in the first place and an ignorance you will likely to continue to build and bask in for the rest of your sheltered life. Get to know yourself and if/when you do, then you'll understand more about the world around you.
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