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Prediction: NASA Will Not Find Life on Mars
Creation Evolution Headlines ^ | 2-17-2021 | David Coppedge

Posted on 02/18/2021 10:41:35 AM PST by fishtank

Prediction: NASA Will Not Find Life on Mars

February 17, 2021 | David F. Coppedge

The Perseverance rover is scheduled to land today. As usual, the search for life is a priority for the mission.

Our prediction that no life will be found on Mars is based on history, probability, the harshness of the Mars environment and the complexity of a minimal cell. We should qualify the prediction by stipulating that if any sign of life is found, it will turn out to be remnants of Earth life that somehow got transported to Mars, perhaps by a glancing meteorite.

We can also add another prediction: a null finding will not stop NASA from looking for life on Mars. It’s impossible to prove a universal negative, for one thing. And NASA knows that the L word life is a sexy term to maintain public interest in Mars missions. NASA will keep at it even if a sample return mission brings back a sterile sample of Martian soil, because even then they could claim they looked in the wrong place.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: davidbowie; kooks; mars; perseverance
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To: fishtank

Can the US flag planted there long ago be retrieved?


21 posted on 02/18/2021 10:56:30 AM PST by Mark (Celebrities... is there anything they do not know? Homer Simpson)
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To: fishtank

What, no Mormons there either?


22 posted on 02/18/2021 10:56:48 AM PST by Democrat = party of treason
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To: fishtank

Since Mars is in an orbit further from the Sun than Earth is pretty certain that microbial life has made it that on the solar Wind. So finding evidence of life is not pie-in-the-sky. Mars used to have Oceans and a decent enough atmosphere. Earth life could have established itself there.


23 posted on 02/18/2021 10:56:52 AM PST by Seruzawa (TANSTAAFL)
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To: fishtank

oh yeah, then who carved Elvis’ face up there?


24 posted on 02/18/2021 10:56:59 AM PST by euram
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To: fishtank
They migrated to earth in the 1960s


25 posted on 02/18/2021 10:57:18 AM PST by xp38
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To: fishtank

Prediction: NASA Will Not Find Life on Mars


Trick prediction.

Musk will find it. :)


26 posted on 02/18/2021 10:57:22 AM PST by cuban leaf (We killed our economy and damaged our culture. In 2021 we will pine for the salad days of 2020.)
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To: fishtank

Lou Reed sings “Satelite of Love” from 1972, with David Bowie singing background :Woh Woh Woh Woh”


27 posted on 02/18/2021 10:57:33 AM PST by lee martell
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To: fishtank

Better not find life on Mars.

If life is found, Nancy and Schumer and AOC, will send the National Guard to make sure that the environment is not destroyed by visiting humans.


28 posted on 02/18/2021 10:57:44 AM PST by adorno
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To: Mark

Is that you Sheila?


29 posted on 02/18/2021 10:58:13 AM PST by xp38
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To: fishtank
Fascinating watch.....love following the rovers criss crossing mars. It's all really quite remarkable
30 posted on 02/18/2021 10:58:23 AM PST by caww
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To: brownsfan

There have been several missions that have failed.


31 posted on 02/18/2021 10:58:23 AM PST by cuban leaf (We killed our economy and damaged our culture. In 2021 we will pine for the salad days of 2020.)
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To: crusty old prospector

Wasn’t she Alice?


32 posted on 02/18/2021 10:58:43 AM PST by Blennos ( )
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To: mewzilla

So we won’t need the Slim Whitman?


Atmosphere’s too thin on mars for it to work.


33 posted on 02/18/2021 10:59:04 AM PST by cuban leaf (We killed our economy and damaged our culture. In 2021 we will pine for the salad days of 2020.)
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To: fishtank

Stranger in a Strange Land tells of human life on mars


34 posted on 02/18/2021 10:59:21 AM PST by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) History: Pelosi was pitiful vindictive California crone)
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To: brownsfan

I doubt they’ll find any intelligent life on Earth with.


35 posted on 02/18/2021 11:00:36 AM PST by Fai Mao
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To: fishtank

Finding evidence that there had been life on Mars was the only question that I ever expected to be answered.


36 posted on 02/18/2021 11:01:04 AM PST by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken )
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To: fishtank

“We should qualify the prediction by stipulating that if any sign of life is found, it will turn out to be remnants of Earth life that somehow got transported to Mars, perhaps by a glancing meteorite.”

The way this is written, I wonder if the author thinks there is no life in space anywhere. Does the bible claim Earth is the only planet created for life?


37 posted on 02/18/2021 11:01:32 AM PST by DEPcom (Impeach Illegitimate Biden/Harris )
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To: fishtank

Actually, I am quite unhappy with all the buzz about finding life on Mars, and, for that matter, finding life anywhere outside the Earth.
Why do not we just investigate Mars features, composition, do scientific studies, temperature, etc.
Instead we are constantly fed this life investigation crap. I frankly do not care and drives me nuts. Even if they find some low life there, what difference it would make?
NASA somehow thinks that finding life sells, or what?
Or maybe they want to find proof of Darwin theories?


38 posted on 02/18/2021 11:01:33 AM PST by AZJeep (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0AHQkryIIs)
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To: fishtank

Must have used D.C. as the criteria.


39 posted on 02/18/2021 11:02:27 AM PST by SkyDancer (Remember Ashli Babbitt!)
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To: crusty old prospector

Like Joe Biden, your senility is showing

Ralph’s wife was Alice


40 posted on 02/18/2021 11:02:58 AM PST by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) History: Pelosi was pitiful vindictive California crone)
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