Posted on 04/22/2025 3:57:10 AM PDT by RomanSoldier19
The longest molecules ever found on Mars have been unearthed by NASA's Curiosity rover, and they could mean the planet is strewn with evidence for ancient life.
Molecule chains containing up to twelve carbon atoms linked together were detected in a 3.7 billion-year-old rock sample collected from a dried-up Martian lakebed named Yellowknife Bay, according to a study published March 24 in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
These long carbon chains are thought to have originated from molecules called fatty acids, which, on Earth, are produced by biological activity. While fatty acids can form without biological input, which may be the case on Mars, their existence on the Red Planet means that signs of life may be lurking within its soil.
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12 chain carbon chemical are not that long. Gasoline has 12 carbon alkanes in it.
We should be looking for natural resources and valuable metals instead of the wild goose chase of looking for life. Earth is the only planet in this solar system that has or ever had life.
Let’s frack Mars! Send Bruce Willis to drill, Baby, drill!
So they found fatty acids?
Musks rockets will be crewed with “Chubby Chasers.”
“Ever” is a long, long time.
If Mars had previously flourished with life would we have seen fossil evidence vis a vis the Rover photography by now?
So many weasal phrases. It must be grant renewal time.
Maybe the Viking lander or other earthling vehicle fuel exaust!
Carbon? Oh no we must spend money on Mars climate change studies now!
Gasoline is only possible in a planet that contains life.
3.7 billion years ago is when science postulates life began on Earth with cyanobacteria.
Mars is on a completely different evolution timeline, a hyper accelerated version due to the smaller size, a solidified iron core, no oceans, no magnetosphere. There was never enough time to birth any life on Mars before the planet basically froze to death and any water that was there evaporated into space.
There’s no limestone, no tectonics, nothing to either keep the planet fresh with minerals nor a means to even leave evidence of life such as fossilized organisms in limestone.
If anyone believes that life ever existed, or that humans will live on Mars, those people are idiots.
Earth is the only planet in this solar system that has or ever had life.
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You know this for a fact or are you just guessing? 4 billion years is a long long time.
lol
Yes, it will be interesting to see what they find.
We are alone...
We are alone...
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You know this for a fact or are you just guessing? 4 billion years is a long long time.
We are SO fortunate—not just in evolution, but in the course of Time.
If there was ever life ‘out there’, we would have passed like ships in the night.
“Life out there” is already here and has been for thousands of years.
You do realize that there are way over 52 billion galaxies found so far, each with 350 billion stars and each star with at least one planet.
You do the math.
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