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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.

(Excerpt) Read more at crev.info ...


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

Life existed on Mars long ago.

Something planet-killing happened.


41 posted on 02/18/2021 11:03:35 AM PST by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself)
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To: Kriggerel

It’s on America’s tortured brow
That Mickey Mouse has grown up a cow


42 posted on 02/18/2021 11:08:19 AM PST by Mr. Mojo
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To: fishtank

There’s a greater likelihood of finding life on mars than that I will ever not laugh at these nutters


43 posted on 02/18/2021 11:10:00 AM PST by RedStateRocker ("Never miss a good chance to Shut Up" - Will Rogers)
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To: fishtank

44 posted on 02/18/2021 11:11:19 AM PST by TangoLimaSierra
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To: fishtank

Guaranteed!

Anybody who believes that the first cell developed from some mucky pond scum and lightning is proof that he has no idea of how complex a single cell is.


45 posted on 02/18/2021 11:11:49 AM PST by aquila48 (Do not let them make you care! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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To: fishtank

I certainly can’t find intelligent life at the Creation Institute.


46 posted on 02/18/2021 11:12:20 AM PST by Kozak (The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.)
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To: mewzilla
So we won’t need the Slim Whitman?

I was looking forward to Congress being vaporized.

47 posted on 02/18/2021 11:15:11 AM PST by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Gonzales! Come and Take It!)
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To: fishtank

We should be exploring Klendathu.


48 posted on 02/18/2021 11:16:21 AM PST by EEGator
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To: nobody in particular

hank johnson sent out a memorandum asking nasa to land on the right side of the planet, to the planet does not tip over.


49 posted on 02/18/2021 11:17:27 AM PST by SGCOS
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To: TangoLimaSierra

There goes the neighborhood!


50 posted on 02/18/2021 11:18:40 AM PST by lee martell
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To: fishtank
NASA Will Not Find Life on Mars

If we consider "life" as we know it on earth.

For all we know, landing the Mars Rover could have wiped out a Mars civilization...
51 posted on 02/18/2021 11:19:33 AM PST by stylin19a (Seems 4,153,237 people got wed one year, not to start trouble but shouldn't that be an even number?)
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To: fishtank

At this point we have no idea how common or rare life is in the universe. We will have no idea unless or until we either find some somewhere else or figure out how to create it from scratch in a laboratory.

Complex organic molecules are common. All you need is carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorus, and sulfur and mix them for a few million years in a high pressure environment with a heat source.

How to make the jump from the most complex organic molecule to the simplest living organism is what no one has figured out yet.


52 posted on 02/18/2021 11:20:34 AM PST by Bubba_Leroy (Dementia Joe is Not My President!)
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To: fishtank

Predictions are cheap when not called on it.

I find modern “creationists” embarrassing, as they have a vested interest in a tightly held view grounded in a few pages of literary context written millennia ago for the limited understanding of goat herders, and fiercely hold to their interpretation without the humility proscribed by Scripture.

The chronic “you morons” rhetoric is sinful. God created however He chose to, and we’re not privy to the details but for what we can deduce from reality - which must ultimately be consistent, whichever perspective must be adjusted accordingly. Berating those who seek to understand what is, seeking to impose a preferred truth, is not a search for truth.


53 posted on 02/18/2021 11:21:05 AM PST by ctdonath2 (Interesting how those so interested in workERS are so disinterested in workING.)
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To: fishtank

Nutty anti-evolution website.


54 posted on 02/18/2021 11:22:49 AM PST by crusher2013
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To: fishtank

Life will be found but the argument will be ‘is it native to Mars or contamination from the Chinese Wuhan probe’.


55 posted on 02/18/2021 11:22:59 AM PST by MrBambaLaMamba (It's a lie. It's all lies. Use every opportunity to poison their data. )
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To: AZJeep

Discovering new species here is fascinating. How much more so finding them on another planet!


56 posted on 02/18/2021 11:25:01 AM PST by ctdonath2 (Interesting how those so interested in workERS are so disinterested in workING.)
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To: crusty old prospector; bert; Blennos
"I think they did find remains of Ralph Kramden’s wife Edith on the moon."

Ralph Kramden's wife was Alice. Edith was Archie Bunker's wife.

According to Ralph, Alice was going to be sent straight to the moon. The show was silent as to whether she proceeeded to Mars after that, but it doesn't look good:


57 posted on 02/18/2021 11:26:23 AM PST by fidelis (Zonie and USAF Cold Warrior)
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To: fishtank

Past life is a possibility.


58 posted on 02/18/2021 11:32:06 AM PST by tennmountainman ( Liberals Are Baby Killers.)
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To: fishtank

Actually an earlier mission (Opportunity - Spirit 2004) already found a fossil, but they used the grinder to grind it off - fossil was something like a Sea Anemone - a crinoid


59 posted on 02/18/2021 11:36:47 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: AZJeep

It’s not mutually exclusive. They look at all kinds of stuff. Once you start looking at things on the microscopic level you’re open many finds. But life is the sexy one the press gravitates to. So yes, it does sell.


60 posted on 02/18/2021 11:37:21 AM PST by discostu (Like a dog being shown a card trick )
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