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- iceblademan, on 07/02/2009, -3/+9I'm so sick of the scientific community being closed minded about the ability for life to form.
"When scientists found perchorate on Mars last year, there was a heated discussion in the scientific community. Rocket scientists worried about contamination because perchlorate is a constituent of rocket fuel. Others worried that finding the chemical would mean that Martian soil was less hospitable to life because it's a water contaminant here on Earth."
Who cares?? It's ignorant to assume that life will form into an exact facsimile of our own carbon based, water drenched evolution. What about silicon based life forms that utilize liquid ammonia? With the correct amino acids and minerals, water isn't even necessary. It is hypothesized that any elemental liquid would be beneficial to the development of life, not just water and carbon like we look for. Its time for a new generation with new ideas to start taking a look out into our cosmos and let the tired ideas of the Baby Boomers be chronicled in text books where they belong - Wargasmic, on 07/03/2009, -0/+4Because science requires evidence, not opinion. Until there is evidence there is no reason to proclaim that life must exist on Mars.
- walruspanzer, on 07/02/2009, -0/+3We don't want to disturb the aliens
- WraTH017, on 07/03/2009, -0/+3I don't think the scientific community is denying the possibility of life forming/thriving in a new and unexpected way. They're just sticking with what they know and understand. It's far more likely that if we ever find life we'll do it by looking for water, instead of liquid ammonia.
- mikemehak, on 07/02/2009, -2/+4i planned to be the first person to market Mars bottled water. Chances are it might kill you, won't offer anything in the way of nutrients or nutrition, but will catch on because it's trendy.
This should buy me time to raise start up. - inactive, on 07/03/2009, -0/+1Yeah iceblademan, you tell those stupid scientists.
- whiskeythief, on 07/03/2009, -0/+1"Well I sure hope you didn't devise that from this photo alone. "
FTA: "colleagues from NASA's Jet Propulsion lab and universities all over the world, have spent the intervening months confirming those early finds and poring over the lander's massive amounts of data"
It's called ice. If you ever get a day job, don't quit it. - chrismgtis, on 07/03/2009, -0/+1.
- bigplrbear, on 07/03/2009, -1/+2it's called "ice"
ya know, frozen water? - collution, on 07/03/2009, -1/+1"There are a LOT of very conservative scientists..."
Yea, okay. - LilRabbitFooFoo, on 07/02/2009, -2/+2There are a LOT of very conservative scientists, entrenched in their positions because the careers, finances, reputations, and egos often depend on it.
Nobody wants to be proven that they are wrong and/or have wasted their entire life--yeah, I'm pointing at you, Brian "theory of nothing" Green. - ignarukih, on 07/04/2009, -0/+0I hear their retribution is merciless. Get your tinfoil hats here, people!
- inactive, on 07/03/2009, -1/+1Can science focus on some more important matter than whether life began in Mars or not? What about solving some of the great problems where there is life in the first place?
- damnshoes, on 07/02/2009, -2/+1now if I had a oven mitt could I?
- chrismgtis, on 07/03/2009, -2/+1It looks like white stuff to me, nothing more, nothing less. Is this water? Well I sure hope you didn't devise that from this photo alone.
- Lobsterfish, on 07/02/2009, -2/+1It looks like salt to me.
- chrismgtis, on 07/03/2009, -2/+1You're an idiot. Of course ice is water and the point is by looking at this photo you can't tell that it's either one. It looks like white dust, nothing more.
Don't quit your day job smart boy. - inactive, on 07/03/2009, -2/+0I would read it if it wasn't split up into 5 pages.
- TranquilNight, on 07/03/2009, -2/+0What he said
- Presbyterian, on 07/02/2009, -7/+0Yawn....
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