Posted on 01/15/2009 8:36:23 AM PST by Dallas59
Is there life on Mars? We don't know — but there's more good evidence there may be.
NASA and Science magazine will announce Thursday afternoon that large amounts of methane have been found on the Red Planet, which could be a sign of biological activity.
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If there is life on Mars producing methane, it must be found and taxed to stop global warming
Gotta be cows.
Mmmmm..... steak and cheese.
I guess there are bovines on Mars...
That’s great news!
Solar System Climate Change Warming!
COWS ON MARS. Tax um big time!
Don’t let this get out. The government will surely want to tax whatever is causing these gaseous emissions and creating global warming....
Oh wait. It’s on Mars. Well, I don’t think it even matters to the global warming crowd that it’s on another planet. It’s not about the climate or the environment any more, it’s about increasing taxes.
“Who cut the cheese?!” John Carter, Barsoom, Mars
David Bowie always thought there was Lif on Mars:
It’s a god-awful small affair
To the girl with the mousy hair
And her mummy is yelling “no”
But her daddy has told her to go
But her friend is nowhere to be seen
As she walks through her sunken dream
To the seat with the clearest view
And she’s hooked to the silver screen
But the film is a saddening bore
Cuz she’s lived it ten times or more
She could spit in the eyes of fools
If they asked her to focus on
Sailor’s fighting in the dance hall
Oh man
Look at those cavemen go
It’s the freakiest show
Take a look at the lawman
Beating up the wrong guy
Oh man
Wonder if they’ll ever know?
They’re in the best selling show
Is there life on Mars?
(Guitar Solo)
It’s on America’s tortured brow
That Mickey Mouse has grown up a cow
And that workers are struck for fame
Cuz Lennon’s on sale again
See the mice in their million hordes
From Ibeza to the Norfolk Broads
Rule Britannia out of bounds
To my mother, my dog, and clowns
But the film is a saddening bore
Cuz I’ve written it ten times or more
It’s about to be writ again
As I ask you to focus on
Sailor’s fighting in the dance hall
Oh man
Look at those cavemen go
It’s the freakiest show
Take a look at the lawman
Beating up the wrong guy
Oh man
Wonder if they’ll ever know?
They’re in the best selling show
Is there life on Mars?
Yeah ... It’s from all those cattle the Martians are breeding in secret.
If you would like to be on my “NASA Announces life on Mars at least once a Day” ping list ping me ...
If I recall correctly, methane is fairly abundant on Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and several of their moons. Methane in the form of methane ice has been detected on Pluto, Eris, and several comets, and trace amounts have even been detected on the Moon.
Excuse my ignorance, but what makes the detection of trace amounts of methane in the atmosphere of Mars proof of life?
I used to work for Nasa as a planetologist and you are so right. Every time they want to make points with their paymasters in Congress they announce life or water on Mars.
Furthermore there is no reason to think the methane came from a living source. The further out you go from the sun in the solar system the more endogenous volatiles such as methane there are.
There could be life on Mars, and there are good places to look they have not gone to, but this methane thing is a crock. Don’t you just love government science?
There’s also methane around Uranus and Myanus.
Methane: 4 carbons and 1 hydrogen.
Yep. That proves we all sprang forth from a pool of primordial chemicals that a random bolt of lightning turned into amino acids (so one theory goes). The Bible is wrong, there is no God and we should quit wasting our time in church, synagogue, etc.
(sarcasm off)
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