Now, who could argue with such a fossil search
Posted on 09/24/2020 11:19:29 AM PDT by BenLurkin
NASA currently expects to land the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover on the surface of Mars on February 18, 2021. Once the rover is on the surface and working, it will begin to search for traces of microscopic life that could be billions of years old. The rover is fitted with an instrument called PIXL, which is a lunchbox-sized device at the end of the seven-foot-long robotic arm fitted to the rover.
. PIXL uses more than an x-ray beam alone, it also has a hexapod, which is a device featuring six mechanical legs connected to the robotic arm guided by AI to get the most accurate aim possible.
Once near a target rock, PIXL uses a camera and laser to calculate distance. The legs then make tiny movements on the order of around 100 microns so the device can scan the target mapping the chemicals found in a postage-stamp-sized area. X-rays are emitted in 10-second bursts aiming at a single point on the rock before the instrument tilts 100 microns and takes another measurement. Taking accurate measurements of a very small area could take as long as nine hours.
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I’m all for space exploration, but spending billions to prop up the idiotic theory of evolution is a waste.
(Having fun momentarily channeling a Lefty.... Ha ha ha ..ha ha)
Totally agree.
Will they actually show the images of fossils if they find some or grind them off like they did a decade ago?
Fossils? From what? There has never been life on Mars and they never will be, until we arrive that is and find the same thing we found when we landed on the Moon... Nothing!
The idea that life exist somewhere out there isn’t unthinkable... The idea that life out there somewhere will be anything remote to life as it is on earth is unthinkable and highly unlikely. We are the perfect distance from the sun to allow for life to exist... And of the hundreds of millions of lifeforms that have existed here on earth... How many are self aware? One... Human. Hate to burst the bubbles of all those star trek fans... There are no other intelligent forms of life out there... We are it, the end, the one and only.
The universe is pretty big, out of curiosity what’s your source on this?
Any such argument would be facile.
Gonna find some hrossa. Or sorns. Or pfiffltrigs...
My source is common sense... Lightning only strikes once and apparently our good creator decided that this was the planet to where he would throw the bolt of knowledge.
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Exobiology / panspermia ping.
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Lightning doesn’t only strike once. That’s just an expression. There are plenty of places that get struck by lighting with regularity. For example, the Empire State Building gets struck by lightning 25 times a year on average.
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