NASA Schedules Briefing to Announce Significant Find on Mars...

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[edmond246]

NASA hosts a news briefing at 1 p.m. EST, Wednesday, Dec. 6, to present new science results from the Mars Global Surveyor. The briefing will take place in the NASA Headquarters auditorium located at 300 E Street, S.W. in Washington and carried live on NASA Television and www.nasa.gov

[StoneGiant]

[Condor51]

I think I know what the significant find is ..... Amelia Earhart.

She was having lunch with Jimmy Hoffa and Judge Crater.

(And the Navy guys from Flight 19 were playing baseball.)

[wayne_b24]

elvis?
obama bin rodham?

[TerP26]

Well in my opinion I think the significance would be extraordniary. If we found life on Mars, it would have had to develop totally independent of life on Earth. We could see how our life compares to life on other planets? Or if we come from the same mold, with the same type of structure than we could conclude that life develops the same everywhere, or we were all spawned from the same source.

[Brilliant]

What does it matter, though?

[Gunut]

Well in my opinion I think the significance would be extraordniary. If we found life on Mars, it would have had to develop totally independent of life on Earth.

Not necessarily. Bacteria may by able to survive a meteor impact, and Martian meteors have been found in Antarctica. If life originated on Mars 4 billion years ago, a Martian meteor might have landed on Earth at that time, "seeding" us.

In other words, we all might be descended from Martians :-)

[visualops]

Looks like a Terragen image with a lens flare thrown in.

[oh8eleven]

If they found something like this...
or this...

it would be significant. Otherwise it's just NASA looking for trillions of dollars of taxpayers' money. Remember the last "life on Mars" scam?

[reagan_fanatic]

They found Hillary's heart?

Nah. They won't find that until they start exploring Pluto.

Mars is too warm.

[Diddle E. Squat]

[AmusedBystander]

They discovered that Mars ain't the kind of place to raise your kids?

In fact it's cold as hell.

[kalee]

ping

[olde north church]

Any sign of gas from Uranus?

[SunkenCiv]

Hey, congratulations! No one beat you to it, and you were post #73! [applause]

[olde north church]

Hey, congratulations! No one beat you to it, and you were post #73! [applause]

You applause makes all those years of Mrs. ONC asking me, "What are you, 10?" worth it!

Thanks!

[SunkenCiv]

Chicks.

;')

[TMSuchman]

A "jon" boat does not have much of a draft. It would be the perfect boat there! ;>)

[RightWhale]

According to Hoagland it is water, wet water. Not a pool of water but moist dirt. In any case, this would make a permanent manned base much easier.

[Designed]

Now, of course, they will extrapolate the finding of water to the almost certainty of finding life. The NASA people are fond of doing this -- no doubt to create chatter and incease funding. Those who believe in the chance formation of life will grasp at any finding, no matter how small, to trumpet their pet theory. Life is far, far to complicated and information-laden to be an accident. Ask Anthony Flew. He was converted to theism by DNA -- information on a ribbon. He finally came to the realization that information ALWAYS originates in a mind.

[Spirochete]

Well, there's never been a good explanation about how the rover solar panels kept putting out juice and didn't get covered with dust.

The explanation is: Winds occasionally blow off the dust accumulations.