Big News From Mars? Rover Scientists Mum For Now

npr.org ^ | Nov. 20, 2012 | Joe Palca

[molson209]

Obama is related to the President of Mars

[blueunicorn6]

If them Martians are wiping with rocks than we might as well surrender right now. I don’t want to be fighting any Nancy Pelosi green Martian thingy that can wipe with a rock.

[BenLurkin]

http://www.moviesoundclips.net/download.php?id=1648&ft=wav

[stickywillie]

Ol’ Waylon....pretty simple: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwwGjOj1clc

[albionin]

What if it turns out to be different from the life on Earth? What if it uses completely different base pairs for its DNA? What if it uses something other than DNA? These are all questions which will need to be answered.

[Caipirabob]

The found the missing votes that put Romney over the top for the election?

[Windflier]

...violent eruptions at the beginning of the Genesis judgment sent jets of water into orbit, creating the comets

Are you saying that jets of water from earth created the comets in the solar system? Perhaps you're referring to your personal religious belief, and not scientific fact. Is that it?

[captmar-vell]

I hope they found evidence of past or present life,

God is a creator and creative enough to have filled up the entire universe with life if he so desired, creating is what he does,

We have marine species in the deepest parts of the ocean that humans have never encountered, what does that have to do with us, and whats the difference if we move out into space and Jupiter’s moon Europa has sea life in its 60 mile deep oceans, or a warmer and wetter mars in the distant past had microbial life, it would be exciting,

[albionin]

I would think there is not enough water on Earth to account for even a small fraction of the comets in the Oort cloud. Maybe someone in the know can answer that.

[Windflier]

I would think there is not enough water on Earth to account for even a small fraction of the comets in the Oort cloud. Maybe someone in the know can answer that.

I agree with your thought on that, and suspect that someone will be along shortly to give us the scientific facts on it.

[Tyrannis]

that’s an understatement HA

[editor-surveyor]

There is a computation spreadsheet on it available to those that enjoy scepticism, but anyway, Earth is the only possible source of the water, since Earth is coplanar to the orbits of all of them. (Kepler worked that out hundreds of years ago)

[editor-surveyor]

What oort cloud?

It’s very existence is a raving mad theory.

[albionin]

Wait a minute. Isn’t The Earth coplanar with almost all of the bodies in the solar system?

[albionin]

I saw them in all of the Lord of the Ring movies. Ugly suckers. You can’t tell me they don’t exist. Frodo had a sword that glowed blue when they came around.

[editor-surveyor]

>> “They found John Boehner’s spine?” <<

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Could be, they said it looked like a worm...

[editor-surveyor]

Cool!

[Empireoftheatom48]

The Oort Cloud that comes out of Uranus!

[adorno]

At the same time, they're cautious because no one likes to make a big announcement and then have to say "never mind."

Why not?

What makes them so special?

Global warming "scientists" don't mind making big announcements after they "discover" big things with their "research". Let's make the announcements and let's do all kinds of jumping to conclusions, and then, once we gather enough opinions, we can claim through consensus that, the science is settled and that, life on Mars exists, and it might threaten life here on earth.

[editor-surveyor]

>> “Wait a minute. Isn’t The Earth coplanar with almost all of the bodies in the solar system?” <<

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No, but the sun is.

The planetary orbits are all perturbed. There is a theory that at one time Mars crossed Earth’s orbit in a near miss trajectory. (has support in folk lore)