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First Martian life likely broke the planet with climate change, made themselves extinct
Live Science via MSN ^ | October 13, 2022 | By Ben Turner

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Marvin the Martian was an EVIL CONSERVATIVE? Buggs, you didn’t tell us that!!


141 posted on 10/13/2022 7:49:48 PM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (Defund the FBI, the American Stasi..)
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To: x

“What about the older theory that the Martians attacked earth and were killed off by the flu and the common cold?”

don’t be silly ... that’s an obsolete theory ...

the NEW theory is that a passing Martian spaceship inadvertently picked up COVID-19, and contaminated the entire planet when it returned, and the Martians all died out because they refused to get vaccinated, refused to mask up, and refused to socially distance ...


142 posted on 10/13/2022 7:53:01 PM PDT by catnipman (In a post-covid world, ALL "science" is now political science: stolen elections have consequences)
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To: JoSixChip

Just like how Hunter’s laptop story had “all the earmarks of a Russian hoax”...


143 posted on 10/13/2022 8:15:44 PM PDT by Alas Babylon! (Rush, we're missing your take on all of this!)
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To: Hazwaste

Yes there’s life on Mars! Bugs Bunny is friends with him.


144 posted on 10/13/2022 8:18:27 PM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (Defund the FBI, the American Stasi..)
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To: Tennessee Nana

My Favorite Martian.. Great Show...


145 posted on 10/13/2022 8:19:36 PM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (Defund the FBI, the American Stasi..)
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To: week 71

It was thought up by the Bee, but they thought no one would believe it. 🤓


146 posted on 10/13/2022 8:21:56 PM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (Defund the FBI, the American Stasi..)
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To: Deplorable American1776

:)


147 posted on 10/13/2022 8:22:19 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: Olog-hai
Green Lives Matter...

Sponsored by Earthlings-Little Green Men Togetherness Project For a Safe Universe... 🤓

148 posted on 10/13/2022 8:28:11 PM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (Defund the FBI, the American Stasi..)
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To: Wuli
BINGO!

I have recently taken an Astronomy course in college, and that is exactly why. No metallic core > No magnetic field > solar winds blow away the atmosphere for lack of said magnetic field. Mars surface is highly radioactive compared to Earth since it has no protection from the Sun. Nothing can live on its surface unless it can be protected from radiation.

It may be a theory, but it is much more grounded in reality than renegade germs.

149 posted on 10/13/2022 10:12:10 PM PDT by thescourged1
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Climate change logic: No evidence of life existing on Mars has been found. Therefore the life for which there is no evidence it ever existed, might have (meaning must have) killed itself off through its own climate change, of such severity it erased all evidence of its existence.

Normal people logic: Mars lost its magnetic field and most of its atmosphere 4 billion years ago. If life ever existed on Mars the reduction in atmosphere and increased solar radiation on its surface would have killed off Martian life more than natural or life created climate change.

I like normal logic better, however climate logic does get lots of grants and keeps people employed producing research like this.

150 posted on 10/13/2022 10:24:53 PM PDT by Widget Jr (Disobey your television, especially CNN.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
almost as entertaining as the "scientists" claiming they have discovered planets because they saw stars wobble

or the one about "carbon dating" ,

and Black Holes are always a good reason to spend billions at CERN trying to create one

151 posted on 10/13/2022 11:41:47 PM PDT by KTM rider (, or how Ambassador Stevens was killed because he was about to testify before the UN council )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
On Earth, too, life once almost wiped itself out.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Oxidation_Event

Damn those oxygen-producers! They're polluting the atmosphere!

Regards,

152 posted on 10/13/2022 11:58:09 PM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Doubtful.

Cigarettes and guns. Oh, and patriarchy.


153 posted on 10/14/2022 12:01:36 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

these Jack@$$e$ come up with some of the craziest crap you have ever seen or heard of. The tricks to get their green world and the pay checks with it going strong. They are going to destroy life on this earth as they seek to murder at least 7 billion people to reach their 500 million limit of humans on the planet these fools want. They don’t get it but the ones doing all the work for the big whigs are among those going to get knocked off. I thank GOD that I am on the last legs of my life span. I look forward to going home one of these days when my Lord says time on my life.


154 posted on 10/14/2022 12:20:48 AM PDT by RetiredArmy (Free Will. GOD gives you the choice I accept or reject Him! Choose Him. It depends on you.)
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To: Hazwaste

” They hate God’s creation and want it destroyed “

Absolutely correct, this is a spiritual battle and we are nothing but pawns. Everything the left does is the opposite of what God wants, desires or demands from us,..... killing the unborn, how much more evil can you get than that? Wanting men to be women, women to be men, children mutilating there bodies because the left tells them God screwed up when he made them. They are pure evil, demon spawn.
May God bless us and send the rest to hell.


155 posted on 10/14/2022 2:07:34 AM PDT by saturn
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To: Oldeconomybuyer; Fred Nerks; Lazamataz
..........modeling study?

Quack Science.

More likely:

My bio modeling personal theory, having equal weight if not more weight than the Mars Climate Modeling effort, is:

that the ancient Martians transgendered themselves out of existance by failing to reproduce.


156 posted on 10/14/2022 2:12:46 AM PDT by Candor7 (ObamaFascism:https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

It was mishandling of the Plutonium Q3 space modulator that destroyed them.


157 posted on 10/14/2022 4:13:38 AM PDT by rey
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To: mikelets456

How productive is this line of thought? Stop worrying about Mars millions of years ago. Mankind is not in control and it is ridiculous to think We are in control. Our immediate environment is fair game, however, it is counterintuitive to want the US (with EPA, DNR, etc.) to send all of our manufacturing to countries that do not even try to keep our environment clean (like Communist China).


158 posted on 10/14/2022 5:30:51 AM PDT by Machavelli (True God)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

159 posted on 10/14/2022 6:15:12 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Kinda silly. What MONEY can the Climate Grifters possibly make from this?

Oh, never mind. They’ll find a way.

*SPIT*


160 posted on 10/14/2022 6:25:11 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have, 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set. )
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