Posted on 10/13/2022 1:41:48 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Ancient microbial life on Mars could have destroyed the planet’s atmosphere through climate change, which ultimately led to its extinction, new research has suggested.
The new theory comes from a climate modeling study that simulated hydrogen-consuming, methane-producing microbes living on Mars roughly 3.7 billion years ago. At the time, atmospheric conditions were similar to those that existed on ancient Earth during the same period. But instead of creating an environment that would help them thrive and evolve, as happened on Earth, Martian microbes may have doomed themselves just as they were getting started, according to the study published Oct. 10 in the journal Nature Astronomy.
The model suggests that the reason life thrived on Earth and was doomed on Mars is because of the gas compositions of the two planets, and their relative distances from the sun. Being farther away from our star than Earth, Mars was more reliant on a potent fog of heat-trapping greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide and hydrogen, to maintain hospitable temperatures for life. So as ancient Martian microbes ate hydrogen (a potent greenhouse gas) and produced methane (a significant greenhouse gas on Earth but less potent than hydrogen) they slowly ate into their planet’s heat-trapping blanket, eventually making Mars so cold that it could no longer evolve complex life.
The scientists believe their findings suggest that life may not be innately self-sustaining in every conducive environment it pops up in, and that it can easily wipe itself out by accidentally destroying the foundations for its own existence.
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I just refer to them as DumbocraTS and yes now you capitalize the TS as an acknowledgement of their guiding ( dare I use the word) principles. Any apologies needed are made to Walt Disney and not to the company he wouldn’t recognize. I understand the Hall of Presidents will now be the Hall of Genders where each gender will rise and give it’s self identifying speech. God forbid they are now exporting their lunacy to Mars... Looks like Elon’s going to have to pick a new planet because the environmental impact statement for a Mars landing will just barely fit in the national archives.
How convenient!
When the Rapture occurs, they’ll say it was space aliens caused by climate change and racism. And something about Trump and our democracy.
more bs crap
The psychosis continues.
The martians were involved in a massive war,the survivors escaped to earth.
LOL! No, this is a result of bad bad karma. Demoncrat karma.
Or possibly it has just always been too cold on Mars to sustain life. Of course that theory will not get you your next Study Grant from the Climate Change Mafia.
Exactly so.
Did I miss the part where we’ve confirmed that there is/was life on Mars? I thought there was a lot of science and terrestrial meteors that suggested there was life on Mars, I haven’t seen anyone say we’ve found solid evidence to prove it.
There no tall tale the Communist Left won’t invent or no random item ono which they won’t pile fictions, in their snowballing execution of the biggest hoax ever pepretrated on human beings? The adjective “sapiens” turning out more and more to have been an overly optimistic term. How so many people actually fall for the fictions used to be beyond me, but no more. People can be convinced os pretty much anything: that they should mitilate themselves and their children in the belief that gender can be changed? That people should reject their gender? That man can have babies? That two men can be married. That dressing like a man makes one a man. That participating in homosexual acts is something about which people should be proud. That God “created” homosexuals even though homosexuality is clearly definedas the very biggest sin and abominiation there is.
Now hypothetical “scientists” are using hypothetical models of hypothetical organisms in a hypothetical atmosphere to prove the dangers of hypothetical GW on Earth. There is real Science and Bullschite science. This is Bullschite science.
John Carter was there and Matt Damon grew potatoes there.
Today I learned that ancient Martian microbes were Democrats.
Republicans .... :)
Astrophysicists suggest most of Mars atmosphere was blown away by about 3.2 billion years ago. Climate “modelers” forget that mars does not have a molten mostly metal core, like earth, and because of that Mars has only a very feeble magnetic field emanating from its crust (unlike Earth’s very strong magnetosphere). Because of that Mars has had little to protect an atmosphere or the surface from the solar wind or even just the high energy solar particles from the sun. The sun, not local climate change, ended watery life possibilities on Mars.
i wonder if the hypothetical “climate change” hypothetically caused by these hypothetical organisms is what caused Mars’ core to solidify, thus causing the entire planet to freeze and to lose whatever magnetosphere it may have had, thus causing the surface of Mars to be bombarded by every ray known to mankind ...
or MAYBE Mars was so small it lacked enough gravity to hold on to its atmosphere as well as being too small to maintain a molten core that would keep the planet heated ...
Pay attention, this is science stuff. Y’all hear?
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What codswallop.
That makes sense - cheers!
What about the older theory that the Martians attacked earth and were killed off by the flu and the common cold?
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