[AppyPappy]

Legos?

[ClearCase_guy]

Methane’s presence on Mars is puzzling, because it survives only a few hundred years at a time, which means that somehow, something on the red planet keeps replenishing it. “It’s a gas in the atmosphere of Mars that really shouldn’t be there,"

I suspect cows.

[Repealthe17thAmendment]

“It’s a gas in the atmosphere of Mars that really shouldn’t be there," says NASA Jet Propulsion Lab scientist Chris Webster.

This is the kind of statement that shows how some scientists have difficulty admitting that they don't know all there is to know about science.

It's incredibly arrogant to say that something shouldn't be there when it now has shown to be there. But, he couldn't just say, "We don't know why it's there."

[Rio]

[DungeonMaster]

That’s really.....something...

[shotgun]

The Martian dry cleaners destroyed the planet with their perchlorate...

[Billthedrill]

I work with an amazing group of people on Mars, and we have discovered so much.

Jennifer, don't let the cat out of the bag! There are no Martians. Repeat again, there are no Martians...

[roadcat]

“It’s a gas in the atmosphere of Mars that really shouldn’t be there,"

Global warming! They're driving a Rover around on Mars. Mankind is polluting the Martian atmosphere! /s

[InABunkerUnderSF]

The molecules mentioned in the corresponding NASA/JPL release, in addition to methane, are "thiophenes, benzene, toluene, and small carbon chains, such as propane or butene".

Could be cows but my guess is volcanoes.

[Steely Tom]

Day to day, it’s easy to lose sight of an astonishing fact: Since 2012, humankind has been driving a nuclear-powered sciencemobile the size of an SUV on another planet.

Do you think that if Russia, or India, or China had successfully landed a nuclear-powered robot on the surface of Mars, and driven it around doing science for five years, they would have graciously assigned credit for their achievement to "humankind" ?

[Cementjungle]

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/top-ten-places-where-life-shouldnt-exist-but-does-144112310/

[sanjuanbob]

“rover has periodically sniffed Mars’s atmosphere”

things that make you go hmmmm.

[Theo]

"Since 2012, humankind the USA has been driving a nuclear-powered sciencemobile the size of an SUV on another planet." There. Fixed it.

[jerod]

O M G.... So do they have a McDonald’s? Because I ain’t heading there until there is at least one McDonald’s and they’re going to need a lot more than ‘blocks’ to make it happen... I’m talking 100% beef burgers made of whole cows and parts there of.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Which leads to this question: If all the “building blocks” are there, why didn’t life begin on Mars? Could it be that life doesn’t just spontaneously happen?

[Reno89519]

What a wasted headline! From yesterday, a NASA bombshell. Sorry, yawn. Didn’t we really know about this already? A bombshell would be to tell us there are aliens out there, show us proof on Mars or the Moon, or floating by our space station. Otherwise, they are simply wasting taxpayer dollars trying to look relevant. They should have just announced what they found in a simple press release and get back to work.

[reasonisfaith]

It would be nice if they could admit they don’t know how life is built.

That they have no clue how “life’s building blocks” can in fact be described as life’s building blocks.

[Jewbacca]

[billyboy15]

Why does life have to be “as we know it”?

How arrogant are we to even think in the 100 BILLION GALAXIES estimated to exist in the cosmos, that the term “life” can only be applied if it conforms to our own makeup?

[skinndogNN]

This is cool, but it reminds me of an old anecdote.

Tell somebody there are billions of stars in the sky, and they will believe you. Tell them a bench has wet paint on it, and they have to touch it.