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To: PatrickHenry

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.


4 posted on 09/13/2006 2:15:32 PM PDT by marron
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To: marron
IMHO, and yes it is only an opinion, life will be the rule as apposed to the exception.

This is not unlike the argument over extra solar system planets a few years ago.

5 posted on 09/13/2006 2:23:52 PM PDT by RadioAstronomer (Senior member of Darwin Central)
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To: marron

I suspect there are interesting things to see in the Martian canyons as well.


8 posted on 09/13/2006 2:26:19 PM PDT by cripplecreek (If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?)
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To: marron

You are correct, is life the rule or the exception. Since life has been found on the earth almost everywhere a person looks, including some very hostile environments, I want to believe it is the rule, not the exception. One of my hopes is, before I die, we find some form of life on another planet. Even if it is just a microbe on Mars I would love to see that.


9 posted on 09/13/2006 2:27:12 PM PDT by ops33 (Retired USAF Senior Master Sergeant)
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To: marron
I want to see whats under Martian soil.


48 posted on 09/13/2006 4:03:15 PM PDT by Lunatic Fringe (Man Law: You Poke It, You Own It)
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"I can't wait for them to start core-drilling; I want to see whats under Martian soil."

I concur. But first let's see what is in the lake under 10,000 feet of ice in Antarctica. Last I heard we wanted to try out a Europa type probe to penetrate the ice into the lake but we were concerned about biological contamination from the probe to the lake.
55 posted on 09/13/2006 5:39:55 PM PDT by Nuc1 (NUC1 Sub pusher SSN 668 (Liberals Aren't Patriots))
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To: marron

Forget Mars... Drill Europa! ;-)


60 posted on 09/13/2006 6:00:24 PM PDT by trashcanbred (Anti-social and anti-socialist)
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