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- edzieba, on 10/12/2007, -4/+28Well, even if life on Mars is contested, there's simple photographic proof of water on Mars: http://img179.imageshack.us/img179/455/wateronmars2gccbigrv9.jpg
Relying on old (and as said in the article, buggy) tests will not give a definitive answer either way. the only way to really find out would be to send more probes to Mars to perform more and more varied and rigorous tests. - thushan, on 10/12/2007, -1/+19Maybe...
- esourcemag, on 10/12/2007, -9/+22Yes
- steelmaverick, on 10/12/2007, -3/+15I apologize if I am trolling, but did anyone else read "Wal-Mart Life Discovered 30 years ago?" when they first glanced at the title?
- caffeinejunkiex, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8MY GOD, it's full of stars!
- esourcemag, on 10/12/2007, -8/+15My personal opinion is that there is life on the planet (or more currectly put; was life many many hundreds of years ogo). I am glad that they are looking further into the data. Maybe even come up with a new definition on what we term as life
- TyeDyeShadow, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Whether it's contested that there was life found by Viking or not, at least they've admitted the technology was flawed. NASA, being backed by the government, has had a hard time admitting that kind of thing in the past, so this is good for space-exploration science. The first step towards wisdom and learning is to admit you don't know.
- KnightMareInc, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8the beauty of science
- CatalystGhost, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Are you just trying to be an idiot? Because that's what the title says.. it doesn't say there is life... just that they might have missed it. Who's the flamer here, besides you and me?
- JacNet, on 10/12/2007, -20/+24No.
- blankman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4if you look at the picture, I think you're realize that jam705 was trying to make a joke (emphasis on trying)
- soogy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4MY GOD, steelmaverick! It all makes sense now!
- obrysii, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5The Transformers, evidently. If you've seen the movie trailer, I think you'll know what I mean.
I firmly belief that life existed, at least, in the past on Mars. With so many billions of years, I wouldn't be surprised if many of our planets have at least cellular life. - 0crabby0, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Life may have existed until 4 billion years ago.
That's when Mars lost it's magnetic field.
After that, it's highly improbable... - willcode4beer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2what are you talking about?
- MrScience, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2A lot of people are making jokes about water on Mars. Thing is... it is there.
http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Mars_Express/SEMGKA808BE_0.html
Now, I know that's a 600' deep lake of _frozen_ water. But the liquid stuff is likely around as well. - willcode4beer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1If its Spiders from Mars, then we better call in the Starship Troopers
- live4beach, on 10/12/2007, -6/+7Of course there is life on Mars, what do you think is capturing/destroying almost all of the probes that we try to land on the planet?
- martingz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I just love science, but I like to stick to the repeatable kind. I’m still trying to understand how finding life in harsh environments on a planet bubbling with life has anything to do with none of the experiments detecting anything note worthy on Mars. Ok so the equipment for two experiments wasn’t sensitive enough, ergo the one experiment is valid and that means there must be life; now that is what I call Critical Thinking!
Read more here http://www.resa.net/nasa/mars_life_viking.htm
“Only the LR experiment appears to have met the criteria for life detection, and it does this rather ambiguously. When the nutrient was first injected, there was a rapid increase in the amount of labeled gas emitted. Subsequent injections of nutrient caused the amount of gas to decrease initially (which is surprising if biological processes were at work)...” - MaSC, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2You guys have watched one too many re-runs of total recall....
- mr.gates, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I wouldn't say advanced life, if there was, then there would be remnants from its existence, like more soil from decomposing organic matter, instead of just rocks.
BUT that doesn't mean there isn't microscopic life, living or dead, which I think there most likely is. Abiogenisis is still a very theoretical field, but the way its going, it looks like life might be easier then we once assumed. - argotechnica, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Somebody call David Bowie! There IS life on Mars!
But seriously, this is completely real. Just watch this documentary from 1977! ;-) http://greylodge.org/gpc/?p=461 - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Sounds like NASA is trying to trick the government into more funding. I hope they succeed. They have been treated like crap for the past few years.
- mr.gates, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I took some radiation samples from the surface of mars, right here on earth, and i think there may be chocolate on mars as well, we just have to break through the surface.
Women everywhere are rejoicing. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This isn't really news, like the author suggests, though. It was reported at the time that some experiments gave a positive result, and as the NASA link shows the problem is that so did the negative control = the analyses were flawed.
- machiado, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Aside from the joke above, about water on Mars, there is actual Scientific evidence of water on Mars. The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, launched 14 months ago, is in orbit of Mars and high resolution photographs are being taken. This link takes you to the pictures taken so far.
http://hiroc.lpl.arizona.edu/images/TRA/ - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Most of that 600' ridge is sand dune, I can't find any estimate on how thick the ice is.
- Stevethegreat, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1I knew, I would be dugg down. But why are you people so fanatical? Even if you stone me I'll continue expressing my "misguided" truth, 'till you understand that you are even more misguided being zealots of your inserted mode.
- MonolithTMA, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1And here I thought it was an inaccurate article about David Bowie, he didn't release Life On Mars? 30 years ago, it was 35. ;-)
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -8/+5I'd think the way Mars looks right now, it was at least hundreds of thousands/millions years ago. Quite possibly advanced life too...One day our planet will look like a barren wasteland.
- CatalystGhost, on 10/12/2007, -6/+3@jam705
Yes, idiot, there is water "on" the Milky Way. After all, Earth is technically on or in the Milky Way, and thereby water is now on the Milky Way.
And now you've made me hungry, too. There shall be vengeance for this... - MattJF317, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1Flame title. It wasn't that they discovered life, the story says that they may have missed it.
- MIDNIGHT167, on 10/12/2007, -8/+0Great
- jam705, on 10/12/2007, -14/+5so by that rationale you can deduce that water could exist somewhere on the milky way as well
- Stevethegreat, on 10/12/2007, -13/+3Well, that kind of speculations must be prohibited not the ones concerning 9/11. At least in such a matter there is no way/no reason for someone to conceal such an event.
- mohit007, on 10/12/2007, -25/+3Life is not merely micro-organisms. They are everywhere, even in asteroids.
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