Posted on 10/13/2022 1:41:48 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Ancient microbial life on Mars could have destroyed the planet’s atmosphere through climate change, which ultimately led to its extinction, new research has suggested.
The new theory comes from a climate modeling study that simulated hydrogen-consuming, methane-producing microbes living on Mars roughly 3.7 billion years ago. At the time, atmospheric conditions were similar to those that existed on ancient Earth during the same period. But instead of creating an environment that would help them thrive and evolve, as happened on Earth, Martian microbes may have doomed themselves just as they were getting started, according to the study published Oct. 10 in the journal Nature Astronomy.
The model suggests that the reason life thrived on Earth and was doomed on Mars is because of the gas compositions of the two planets, and their relative distances from the sun. Being farther away from our star than Earth, Mars was more reliant on a potent fog of heat-trapping greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide and hydrogen, to maintain hospitable temperatures for life. So as ancient Martian microbes ate hydrogen (a potent greenhouse gas) and produced methane (a significant greenhouse gas on Earth but less potent than hydrogen) they slowly ate into their planet’s heat-trapping blanket, eventually making Mars so cold that it could no longer evolve complex life.
The scientists believe their findings suggest that life may not be innately self-sustaining in every conducive environment it pops up in, and that it can easily wipe itself out by accidentally destroying the foundations for its own existence.
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Martian SUVs.
And these people deem us science deniers?
Let’s face it, the people in power hate life in all its forms. That’s how demons think. They hate God’s creation and want it destroyed.
Not sure I believe that life existed on Mars though.
Theories are like arseholes, everyone has got one.
More junk climate change influenced science.
That’s got to be the silliest thing I’ve heard today.
B.S.!!!!
Is that why Mars is radioactive?
Wow, they killed themselves off even without using AC...I mean, come on, it’s not as close to the sun as we are. Green supremacy must have been awful.
Martians went extinct when they stupidly stopped voting for Democrats. Let this be a lesson to us all. <— Science.
Aliens will be one of the next Globohomo ruses in the near future…
Paging Uncle Marty
Sometimes I wish the Darwinism these fools profess to believe in was allowed to run its natural course.
They would all have been driven from the genetic chain millennia ago.
Yep, Martians should have listened to Greta and banned SUVs.
LOL!
LOL!
Is the author suggesting that microbes did it by "accident?"
-PJ
What a steaming pile of Jack Daniels and Taco Bell induced, morning after #2.
Windmills did it.
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