The 'Happy Face Crater' that was captured in a wide-angle image recorded in 1999 by Mars Global Surveyor's camera
I guess that if Mars doesn't have any microbes, then we'll never have intelligent life in the solar system....
The heart on Pluto was made by mictobes. Prove me wrong.
Wouldn’t be so sure.
Compared to lo info voters, current Mars IQ may be orders of magnitude higher.
That’s why demos want to go to Mars: for new, more intelligent voters.
That's what They want you to think, man!
Just because we don't find ET doesn't mean there isn't life.
No paradox. The universe is what it is. It’s we who don’t know it enough to come to any useful conclusions about it, and whether there is life elsewhere.
I am of the opinion that there is life elsewhere, and that there is very little chance that we will find any sign of it for the next few hundred years or so.
There is so life on Mars. What about “Marvin”? I saw him on the Bugs Bunny Show! Now, tell me that’s not true!
My prediction, where there is liquid water there’s life.
Question for Mars is was there life when it had liquid water?
Bush’s fault. Bush and those damned Martian SUVs.
Martian womyn and minorities were hardest hit.
The best bet for Mars is to crash it into Venus. The resulting planet would be much closer to Earth in mass, and possibly even able to generate a convection magnetic field like Earth. Then add a bunch of water and you’re getting somewhere.
And, little intelligent life on earth.......
"And, of course, there are the aliens. Most rocket scientists are too po-faced to admit it, but the reality is that space exploration is almost entirely prevaricated on the quest to discover whether or not we are alone."
No, I will admit that I am getting old, and may not be keeping up with all of the changes in the English language - but when I was growing up, the word "prevaricated" meant "lied". What the author INTENDED to say was that space exploration is predicated on the quest to discover whether or not we are alone...
“But here’s the thing. What if they don’t find anything? What if, 10 years, a 100 years, a 1,000 years hence, endless sky-surveys, proddings and pokings of Mars and elsewhere, turn up nothing, save rocks, gas, ice and vacuum. We had better be prepared for this because, I am beginning to believe, this seems to be the most likely result. “
This has been my view for years. We haven’t found life anywhere else that we’ve looked, and we’ve detected no signs of it. It makes no logical sense to assume it MUST be out there, as many do, because we have no evidence that life can just randomly arise from nothing.
My guess is that if there are intelligent species out there (and I’m not convinced that there are), that they would be as interested in us as a liberal would be in reasoned discourse.
Nobody likes social climbers.
I suspect this author does not know God.
Articles like this should cause people to ask themselves profound philosophical questions. There’s only concrete evidence of life existing on a single planet in all the universe.
Even the most “simple” of single-celled organisms is stupendously complex. Darwin didn’t know any better. We now do. We haven’t come within light-years of creating even a single protein via random processes, much less a living cell that requires dozens of such proteins, cytoplasm, a variably permeable membrane, organelles and the most complex code in the universe: DNA.
You really need an atomic super freighter to do it right. Plant a colony with reactor and earthmoving equipment first swing, start building underground.
Once Freeman Dyson thought it could be done for the price of a nuclear ballistic submarine and a bit of radioactive pollution. But that’s an old estimate.
A thought - the “alien life must be out there, I’m sure of it” meme is a 21st Century substitute for the religious belief of previous eras.