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- sgiffy, on 06/25/2008, -2/+48I really hope we find life there. It would be pretty interesting to see the results of an entirely diffrent evolutionary process from our own.
- Armstrong3, on 06/26/2008, -2/+31I feel like 'Billions of years ago' is just the scientific version of 'we have no idea when'.
- xsecretfiles, on 06/26/2008, -2/+23OK, this is what I think happen
Mars used to be like earth where humans lived for ages, but there was also planet EARTH where only dinosaurs lived for ages.
Until some meteor shower completely destroyed Mars, but the humans in MARS at that time were so advance that they knew there was a possibility of life on earth, so they sent the survivors to here EARTH, obviously earth also got caught in the meteor storm that killed the dinosaurs.
So men have lived on earth ever since, and probably our ancestors told to Jesus to never revealed that he was from mars because people would made fun of him. - instago, on 06/26/2008, -1/+18We require more vespene gas.
- Striss, on 06/26/2008, -1/+13It'd be really interesting to figure out where the oceans were on Mars, and a couple hundred years from now send up some archeiological teams to dig into possible harbor regions to look for signs of ancient cities buried deep underground.
It's probably ridiculous sci-fi thinking, but it would be amazing to find out a civilization much like ours once lived on Mars, it would really change everything we thought about the universe. - DeskFlyer, on 06/26/2008, -1/+9After clicking on some related links, I found an older but fascinating story about the Atacama desert and Mars, read it when you get a chance because it's good stuff:
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.03/mars.html - inactive, on 06/26/2008, -0/+7I've actually heard some young-earth creationists say that, in response to the various dating methods used on rocks that date them as millions and billions of years old, god purposely made them *appear* as if they're that old just to make us think the universe is older. Now that's logic!
- inactive, on 06/26/2008, -0/+7It's the only logical way to look at it
- GoKings, on 06/26/2008, -14/+21Billions of years ago?! But... But... God created the Universe 6,000 years ago! Blasphemy!
- Altotus, on 06/26/2008, -0/+7Mars would need an atmosphere to compensate. I'm sure it is physically possible. Whether or not its within our technical abilities is another matter.
- duk0r, on 06/26/2008, -0/+6Am I the only one that's bothered by this? That God... is ***** with us...
- debuggercll, on 06/26/2008, -0/+6Those two utterances are not dissimilar.
- Kakemonstere, on 06/26/2008, -1/+7I don't think it would work, because I have read that Mars doesn't have any protection from sun and therefore is unliveable. I'm not completely sure about this but I think it's because Mars doens't have a magnetic field.
- Dimensio, on 06/27/2008, -0/+6Please explain your assertion. What is your specific area of study, and what research have you conducted? Clearly you must have been given access to the Mars probe data; what position do you hold that allows you access to this information?
- sanman, on 06/26/2008, -2/+8I really hope we seek to live there again. We should try out methods over there for making the planet's environment more like our own. We should start pumping CFCs into the atmosphere to trigger global warming over there. This could also teach us more about our own Earth. We should seek out large underground caverns to settle in, and also build large airtight tent-domes aboveground. Maybe we should even try to collide some ammonia comets with Mars, to give it more nitrogen.
- TyrannousDotNet, on 06/26/2008, -1/+7the earth was once green and lush...
- nodong, on 06/26/2008, -0/+6At least the Catholic church acknowledges evolution and embraces science.
- nodong, on 06/26/2008, -0/+6Mars is a harsh mistress.
- ATLien74, on 06/26/2008, -1/+6Sure we do. Oppressive religious ideals are way more over used than jokes about them.
- sgiffy, on 06/26/2008, -1/+6I'm with you, though I would like us to a lot more exploring first before we contaminate the planet too much, but after that, lets go balls to the wall. Someone wrote a great book on how we could do it. Most of what we need is already there and we could combine that with algae and maybe even, like you said, a comet. I think his time frame was about a century or two to earth like status.
A long time, but no longer then the time we spent on cathedrals or colonies in the Americas.
If I can remember the name I'll send you a shout. - heyiquit, on 06/26/2008, -0/+5You didn't hear? We all died in 2003.
- Airforcefalco, on 06/26/2008, -3/+8Scientists (Once said): The Earth is the Center of the Universe
- aceallways, on 06/26/2008, -0/+4I think this joke is over 6000 years old and used 6000 times to many
- buba1243, on 06/26/2008, -0/+3If intelligent life existed on Mars it would just give more weight to the doomsday people. Since we haven't found any intelligent life yet we can assume that it either dies out fast or is rare. I would prefer that it's rare so we have a better chance of surviving.
- ironicsans, on 06/26/2008, -0/+3Only once? That *is* fascinating.
- Erythroxylum, on 06/26/2008, -0/+3Yeah, UC Berekely is where a lot of the scientists that worked on the Manhattan Project were from. People often think Berkely is full of hippie shmucks who're always making fools of themselves with their narrow-minded thinking. But, it's not just that; they do a lot of valuable science too.
- ChocChunkOaties, on 06/26/2008, -0/+3That's one old Pope!
- inactive, on 06/26/2008, -1/+4What's the difference between saying "not dissimiliar" and "similar"?
- buba1243, on 06/26/2008, -0/+3The Catholic church has already acknowledged the possibility of life outside of earth good story about 2 months back.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7399661.stm - egthareal, on 06/26/2008, -1/+4It's raining men, hallelujah!
or
I make it rain... I make it rain on deez hoez.
or
Rain drops keep fallin' on my head and that doesn't mean my eyes will soon be turnin' red... - megamod, on 06/26/2008, -0/+3just imagine if the next probe they send up there has digging/excavation capabilities and it finds alien skeleton.
Space exploration would go BOOM! - inactive, on 06/26/2008, -0/+3You mean one makes you sound not dissimilar to a douchebag
- keyforce, on 06/26/2008, -1/+4Nope.
Unfortunately, many religions (and not just the fanatics) leave little room for logical discourse beyond the obvious "because God did it". If you have a question about the world around you and your family is made up of devout believers, you're stuck not questioning anything because to do so would be blasphemous. Once you become an adult, you still question nothing and we get our current situation. - FeloniusMonkey, on 06/26/2008, -0/+3I think he's referring to the CCR song.
- someology, on 06/26/2008, -0/+3Even finding bacteria would change how some people thought about the universe.
- farfegnugen, on 06/26/2008, -0/+2I heard on an episode of The Universe that Mars may have once had an atmosphere similar to ours, but once its (core stopped spinning?, and the) magnetic field stopped, there was nothing preventing the sun's rays from chipping away parts of the atmosphere, degrading it to what it is now.
I watched that episode a year ago though, so I may be a bit off. - orangefly, on 06/26/2008, -1/+3maybe they weren't advanced enough to travel to earth but advanced enough to send us amino acids and such....
- Godlike, on 06/26/2008, -1/+3If there is an enlightened age on this earth it will not in any way include adults murdering children. "Deeper?" This is not in any way a golden age.
- RunnyBabbit, on 06/26/2008, -0/+2There is so much WHOOSH going on in this thread.
- KaJuN4, on 06/26/2008, -1/+3Chocolate rain!!
- Ramble, on 06/26/2008, -0/+2Why?
- starmanjones, on 06/26/2008, -0/+2[>couple hundred years from now send up some archeiological
[>teams to dig
wow. thats a long time off. you really think we won't have mars colonized in a couple hundred years? seriously?
if i had one critical thing to say about nasa, and i love nasa, it would be that it has given the impression that exploration takes place in someone elses life time. kennedy set a goal. 10 years to the moon from technical scratch.
lets do 10 years to mars. next year lets start sending supplies... unmanned. we know what to send. fling it with tethers. cheap. use the airbag method of landing. let it take 5 years to get there. then lets start working out the logistics of permanent colonies. these time lines are just artifacts of human thought. - luckyguy2000, on 06/26/2008, -0/+2i dont think so. the more you think about it the more it seems like the odds to find life in out solar system yet in a solarsystem nearby is very low. life existing somewhere in the whole universe though seems to be like 99,99%
- scamper22, on 06/26/2008, -0/+2what's funny of course is religious people will claim they are being rules by secular rules and are oppressed.
Both are equally true. It would be nice if all valued freedom and choice, but that's just not the case.
rules against drugs/sex = forced on us by religious nut bags.
against school choice = forced on us by secular liberals - Vector713, on 06/26/2008, -1/+3Despite being humorous in truth, this joke is still far too over used. We don't need someone to make the "Blasphemy" joke every time there is a science article about something happening millions or billions of years ago.
kthx. - ToadLeg, on 06/27/2008, -0/+2It is similar to the difference between "I am not going to stop you from eating *****" and "I am going to make you eat *****"
When it is "not dissimilar" it is not asserted that it has similar characteristics, but only that it does not have characteristics that are entirely dissimilar.
Maybe it is less dissimilar to the similarity between "Most of the ***** that you just ate came from my dog" and "Most of the ***** that you just ate did not come from my cat." Both could be true at the same time, while between 0% and 50% of the ***** that you just ate could have come from me. - andjew, on 06/27/2008, -0/+2garbage that was the christians
- justjoehere, on 06/26/2008, -0/+2No we don't. We educate them on what we want them to believe and we call that fact.
- Yeyui, on 06/26/2008, -0/+2That makes a good story, but not such a good scientific conjecture. The dinosaurs disappeared c.65,000,000 years ago, but the oldest evidence of (species we classify as) hominids is from only about 2,500,000 years ago. Humans and Chimps had a common ancestors only about 5,000,000 years ago. That still leaves a very large temporal gap between the great conflagration and the appearance of anything that looks like a human.
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