Posted on 12/06/2006 10:43:05 AM PST by Young Werther
NASA photographs have revealed bright new deposits seen in two gullies on Mars that suggest water carried sediment through them sometime during the past seven years.
"These observations give the strongest evidence to date that water still flows occasionally on the surface of Mars," said Michael Meyer, lead scientist for NASA's Mars Exploration Program, Washington
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It's a shame they can't be that way with politics...
First off, the original planet with 'life' on it was not Earth (as we know it now). Mars is a leftover of a collision between the original life-bearing planet and a planet from another solar system/galaxy.
Many of the 'dead' moons are also leftover particles as well as most of the asteroid belts. Our moon is one of the leftover particles as well.
"I have read that 95% of scientists are atheists."
Sounds like nonsense to me. What's your source for this, and what was their source?
We are talking about different time scales and different conditions. Life on Earth only became multicellular and complex in the last billion years or so. Before then the big evolutionary advances were the formation of various organelles, the formation of the cell nucleus, and the formation of DNA from RNA. The formation of DNA is what allowed single celled organisms to mutate and diversify. But it took a very long time.
On Mars we have a different situation. Life could have existed planetwide from about 3.5 billion years to 3.0 billion years (when the planetary magnetic field failed and the solar wind started stripping the atmosphere eliminating liquid water on the surface). It took almost 2 billion years for DNA to form on the Earth with the ability of organisms to survive around the planet. Mars had about half a billion years before the planet froze over. If life existed on Mars it does so in very small isolated quantities where liquid water can be found.
Margasms.
Thank you for your comment. Now if you could just find that pesky thing called a reference to back it up. Rumor mongering is not particularly helpful in discussions here on science.
There is a theory that the Moon is a result of a collision between proto-Earth and a Mars-sized body, with the Moon having coalesced from the debris that was knocked off of the proto-Earth but did not escape from the Earth's gravitational field. This was supposed to have happened before life came into being on the Earth, which would mean that the Earth is, in fact, where life first came into being. I've seen nothing that says that the colliding body came from outside the Solar System or that it was extra-galactic. Where is your source for what you are saying?
That's the point I was making - I was offering a dangerous interpretation of the meaning of an ET life discovery. That's why I fear the push of so many faithful people to "demonize" science - they end up turning people of science away from faith. Put a different way, they are not hiding the candle, they're saying if you believe X, you can't see the candle.
I seriously doubt that. And just as seriously, you should not find any place you read that to be credible.
No, He would give them their own version of Genesis.
All the more reason for us to speed up NASA's plan to go to Mars by 2030. Get the VSE out of the way and just GO! Continue building Ares, but finance the shuttle to keep flying , build 2 more and bring the fleet up to 5 (with new tech of course). That way there's two launch architectures available, convert the shuttle to an ISS cargo/passenger vehicle and to keep Hubble operational. Use the new tech Orion/Ares to stretch out and explore the moon and Mars.
If the idea is to get us out there and doing commerce, the Treaty needs to be repealed. It would then happen so fast that NASA would wonder where everybody went.
"Up to"...lol. Sounds like you're a big Dawkins fan.
I take it you don't interact with many scientists on a day-to-day basis.
"There are as many [by percentage] atheistic truck drivers as atheistic scientists." --Dick Bube, PhD; Professor Emeritus of Materials Science and Electrical Engineering at Stanford University
Strange, that. All science has done is give me a true appreciation (and respect!) for the abilities of the Creator.
How would a sterile wet Mars undermine religion any more than a sterile dry Mars?
Granted creationists spend loads of money arguing that you have to accede to multiple scientific stupidities if you accept the Bible as scripture, but I doubt it's into the trillions.
WOW !!!!
BIG NEWS !!!!!
WATER ON MARS !!!!!!
oh ... wait ... sorry
it's just where that lost european piece of crap skidded to a stop
Thats not a spring. Thats where a Martian took a whiz.
But you realize we are talking about evolution here.. and evolution conqueors all....
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