Okay, who farted?
Oh
Will it help if we raise taxes and deindustrialize our country?
Fossil fuel. Heh.
Methane is one of the more common molecules in the universe (certainly in our solar system). It could be from non-life sources...or it could be from life sources.
Sounds like a good reason to seen research teams to Mars to me.
Google EXOTIC CHEMISTRY MARS VIKING
“Methane could also be produced by a non-biological process called serpentinization[a] involving water, carbon dioxide, and the mineral olivine, which is known to be common on Mars.[46]”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methane#Biological_routes
From 2012...
Mars methane not biological in origin
June 1, 2012
Emma Woollacott
Disappointingly, scientists say they’ve been able to establish where the methane on Mars comes from - and it’s not from living organisms.
When methane was discovered in Mars’ atmosphere nine years ago, scientists drew paralles with Earth to conclude that it was probably produced either by volcanoes or - more excitingly - biological processes.
The planet appears to be generating about 200 to 300 tonnes of methane every year.
However, researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Mainz and the universities in Utrecht and Edinburgh have now shown that methane escapes from a meteorite if it’s irradiated with ultraviolet light under Martian conditions.
Since carbon-rich meteorites and interplanetary dust from space are continually hitting the Martian surface, they conclude that this is where the methane’s coming from.
“Methane is produced from innumerable, small micro-meteorites and interplanetary dust particles that land on the Martian surface from space,” says atmospheric chemist Frank Keppler.”The energy is provided by the extremely intense ultraviolet radiation.”
Unlike Earth, Mars has no protective ozone layer which could absorb most of the UV radiation from space. Moreover, the Martian atmosphere is very thin, so that much less of the meteorite burns up.”
Read more at http://www.tgdaily.com/space-features/63759-mars-methane-not-biological-in-origin#iB4ptbR3ObtB2uTA.99
The jokes just write themselves....
Global warming on earth has to be the reason /S
Must’ve been the Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator.
I think sheila Jackson lee farted when she visited there...
One that finally needs to be exposed.
Aaaaaaahhhhh! Martian warming!!!
There are cows on Mars???
Terrence and Philip live on Mars? Whatever happened to Canada???
DANG!