Posted on 03/30/2009 8:12:06 PM PDT by KevinDavis
WOODLANDS, Texas — Evidence is building that NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander plopped down on a microbe-friendly location.
Descending onto Mars on May 25, 2008, Phoenix was designed to study the history of water and habitability potential in the Martian arctic's ice-rich soil. It did not pack instruments designed to find life. To date, there is no firm evidence that Mars ever hosted biology.
But researchers say the landing site has or had the ingredients necessary to support life as we know it.
(Excerpt) Read more at space.com ...
I always wonder why libs are so damned determined to believe there’s life on Mars, or why that is important.
If they act like they do nere, they’re just going to abort it anyway. Or tax it to death.
Other scientists also revealed the coolest spot in Hell. Not that you’d want to live there either.
Life on Mars will “prove” evolution, or at least what they think is evolution.
Mars just may be getting Earth microbes from our backwash, though.
we need to build an army of rovers with different capabilities, like one with a built-in drill in its middle to dig down further than a few inches. Each would be different and we could send them several at a time.
Given all that we have and can do in terms of technology today, can we create something that is capable of reproducing itself, and gathering food, and changing it's environment or changing it's location to a better environment?
These are the basics of life, and all our computers, nanotechnology, chemistry and other wizardry cannot even create the most simple form of life.
Note I did not say copy and change (gene splice) life, which just stealing fire.
Reminds me of a good Joke.
Man, having risen after ages to where his technology and science are supreme believes himself to be God.
God takes form and appears before the representative of Man to discuss this and challenges man to create life. OK Man says, I believe we can do it.
God grabs a handful of earth, forms it, blows into it and out of his hand comes a full formed hummingbird.
Man says boy, that's tough, we might be able to make a lower life form, we will get started immediately. The man bends over and scoops up some dirt...
God interrupts and thunders -— Hey! Use your OWN dirt!
No, we need to send an army of human explorers who will each do 100 times the job that any rover could do.
Thanks for the ping.
to help pay for that they need their own 24-7 channel that charges viewers or something.
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