NASA Researchers Claim Evidence of Present Life on Mars

Drudge Report | 16 Feb | edcoil

[edcoil]

Next up, environment wacks proving we came from mars but destroyed it with global warming.

[llevrok]

Too bad there is no sign of life in the US Senate!

[jwalburg]

hidden away in caves

Aha! That's where Bin Laden is!

[anniegetyourgun]

Oh man, ring the bells, sound the horns, NASA says "maybe." Definitely worth the Drudgereport top line....

[Cornpone]

ping...

[jwalburg]

[thoughtomator]

Well, duh! Of course there's life on Mars... we have photographic proof:

Martian (Left) and discoverer (Right)

[boomop1]

Budget time again.

[DannyTN]

I still don't understand why trace amounts of methane on Mars means life, but oceans of methane on Titan are natural.

[BroncosFan]

Ping. I'd bet on it, if not where they hypothesize, then maybe near the polar caps. "Something" that fits the accepted definition of life is on Mars. Now. As for what may have been alive there in the past, it'll take men with picks, shovels, and patience to find out. Assuming we still give a damn.

[Disambiguator]

“They are desperate to find out what could be producing the methane,”

Underground herds of cows of course. What else could it be?

[jigsaw]

It's just evidence of more subterranean Democrat voters.

[Gefreiter]

If there is life on Mars, how do we go about exploring the planet without having a negative impact on that life?

I'm not talking about a Prime Directive. I just wonder whether or how deeply the powers that be consider the ramifications of alien robots (ours) running around up there and possibly interfering in native ecosystems, however primitive, microscopic, or insignificant they may be.

I'm not any kind of earthy hippy type at all, just curious what opinions on that are.

[RadioAstronomer]

bttt for later read

[demlosers]

Stoker and Lemke’s research could lead the search for Martian biology underground, where standing water would help account for the curious methane signatures the two have been analyzing.

“They are desperate to find out what could be producing the methane,” one attendee told Space News. “Their answer

is drill, drill, drill.”

DUmmies: I knew it I knew it! This is Bush/Cheney cabal doing - they are going to destroy the environment on Mars for oil!

[Beckwith]

[doug from upland]

Art Bell and Sheila Jackson Lee both live on Mars.

[demlosers]

Ping!

[American Vet Repairman]

"Methane" huh?

There is also evidence that there is a large pocket of methane produced by the DNC. Please give ne $2Billion so I can go investigate. And BTW my robot will work.

[w6ai5q37b]

Oh man, ring the bells, sound the horns, NASA says "maybe."

"Maybe" they're just saying it to get Congress to appropriate them more money. Not an unheard-of strategy in the world of government-supported science.