[PatrickHenry]

Everybody be nice.

[PatrickHenry]

Evolution Ping The List-O-Links

A conservative, pro-evolution science list, now with over 390 names. See the list's explanation, then FReepmail to be added or dropped. To assist beginners: But it's "just a theory", Evo-Troll's Toolkit, and How to argue against a scientific theory.

[beethovenfan]

The operative word: "SPECULATES"

[marron]

The question is whether life is the exception or the rule.

Either answer will have implications that are awe-inspiring, if you are inclined to awe.

I can't wait for them to start core-drilling; I want to see whats under Martian soil.

[Buck W.]

“For instance, the very hot and cloudy climate of Venus is likely to have developed after a runaway greenhouse effect, and the more we know about this the more we can understand some of the challenges caused by our climate change on Earth."

Interesting up until that point. I guess if the USSC can use foreign law, we can use interplanetary evidence to support global warming.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

“It seems increasingly apparent that habitable environments very likely exist on Mars today, and may have been considerably more diverse and abundant in the past,” he writes.

I'm no sure how we get to "very likely" from "30 years of exploratory spacecraft missions without finding anything." I'd go with "possibly."

If you landed a spacecraft anywhere on earth, you'd find life almost instantly.

[Names Ash Housewares]

First contact may look like this........

http://www.badmovies.org/multimedia/movies6/darkstar1.mpg

[Hot Tabasco]

There is a first for everything and as time goes by, I'm beginning to think that we are the first intelligent lifeforms........(but there are many, many days in which I question "Intelligent")

[P.O.E.]

Where's Carl Sagan and his "bbbbilllions and bbbbillions" of planets when you need him?

[mewzilla]

[KevinDavis]

[Centurion2000]

However, if the surface ice were very thick, this would cut the water below off from oxygen and sunlight which are important for most forms of life on Earth, and so might have prevented life from developing.

That's a load of horsecrap. The first life developed under anaerobic conditions and would actually have died in an oxy/nitro atmosphere.

[COEXERJ145]

If they keep looking long enough, someone will finally find Howard Dean's home world.

[MonroeDNA]

The life on other planets is just a single cell, not implanted yet.

[SunkenCiv]

"By understanding better how the climates of planets like Mars and Venus have evolved, we can understand more about climate change on Earth."

It's more unrelated political agenda seeping into planetary science.

[SunkenCiv]

Mars Research
Dr. Gilbert V. Levin
http://mars.spherix.com/

[R.W.Ratikal]

Never mind other planets. We need to find out if there is life in Massasschuttes, Wisconsin, New Jersey and California.

[Diggity]

I think life is the rule rather then the exception. I think life is a part of the fabric of existence along with space and time.

When you consider that there are over 100 billion galaxies each with around one trillon stars then there must be millons of worlds with intelligent life..

The earth is 5 billion years old, the known universe around 15 billion. That gives us 10 billion years of missing time.

We have found about 150 exosolar planets so far, all gas giants but within 10 years we will be able to detect earth sized planets. Within 100 years we will be able to go to the stars. As soon as we are able too we will visit planets around the other suns that we find.

It's impossible that intelligent life from other worlds is not here now considering the odds that within 10 billion years some races have not advanced more then 100 years ahead of us.

John

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

Come on. This did not have to be a crevolist thread.