[Falcon4.0]

"It looks like mud, but it can't be mud,"

I love this kind of thinking. When they went to the volcanic vents on the Ocean floor they said "no life could survive there", but it teams with life. When they went 7 miles to the ocean bottom they said "no life could survive there", but as soon as they turned on the lights, a fish swam away.

[Ichneumon]

"It looks like mud, but it can't be mud," I love this kind of thinking. When they went to the volcanic vents on the Ocean floor they said "no life could survive there", but it teams with life. When they went 7 miles to the ocean bottom they said "no life could survive there", but as soon as they turned on the lights, a fish swam away.

Clarke's Laws:

1. "When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong."

2. "The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible."

3. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

-- Arthur C. Clarke

[Ima Lurker]

I've always thought it's funny how we think any other life form would be just like us. How presumptuous! Life, as WE know it, requires water to survive. But that doesn't mean another life form would need the same thing.

It sure is good to be talking about something other than immigration.

[GovernmentShrinker]

Exactly. Why do they keep thinking that life on Mars has to be similar to life on Earth. Why can't dry powdery stuff be alive? 'Cause we haven't seen anything like that here?