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Study Suggests Mushrooms Are Growing on Mars As New Images From The Opportunity Rover Show
1 posted on 05/07/2021 8:38:07 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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Mars did however interfere with the 2020 election.


2 posted on 05/07/2021 8:45:54 PM PDT by Rightwing Conspiratr1
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Lots of threads about this, Even I posted one last week.

it might be mana from heaven for the sand kings for all your fact checkers know

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0667945/


3 posted on 05/07/2021 8:48:51 PM PDT by algore
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4 posted on 05/07/2021 8:53:31 PM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear (This is not a tagline.)
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Hogwash.


5 posted on 05/07/2021 8:56:20 PM PDT by Fungi
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Yes. It’s not real.


6 posted on 05/07/2021 9:01:15 PM PDT by ifinnegan ( Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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Mushrooms are racist.

Mars is racist, too.


8 posted on 05/07/2021 9:07:44 PM PDT by _longranger81 (God help us, Every One. )
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I’ve been calling out the Fake Science pushers for the longest and will continue to.
These so-called scientists are so desperate to prove evolution is true and will say and do anything.
Evolution is Unproven and Unprovable...
Life exists on this planet and this planet only but scientists don’t want to believe that.
In the beginning God created the Heaven and the Earth....


9 posted on 05/07/2021 9:38:30 PM PDT by Pez149 (Time to stop saying a theory is fact....)
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With credentials like his, who wouldn’t believe every word he says?

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11 posted on 05/07/2021 9:47:43 PM PDT by bigbob
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Fungi feed on dead, decaying, or sometimes living organic material. They don’t photosynthesize. So for fungi to exist, there would at least need to be plants.


13 posted on 05/07/2021 10:18:33 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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Alien fungus amongus.


14 posted on 05/07/2021 10:28:21 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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There are no guys on Mars, much less fungis.


18 posted on 05/07/2021 11:20:13 PM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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Stop Believing Hack ‘Scientists’

Well shoot! There goes my belief in Global Warming and the Scamdemic!
19 posted on 05/07/2021 11:36:26 PM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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If there are fungi upon Mars, they aren’t necessarily native stock. A lot of hardware has landed in five decades.


20 posted on 05/08/2021 12:58:57 AM PDT by Ozark Tom
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Instead of everyone going after the opinion of the unqualified science reporter, let’s go after the original paper:

Fungi on Mars? Evidence of Growth and Behavior From Sequential Images
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Rhawn-Joseph/publication/351252619_Fungi_on_Mars_Evidence_of_Growth_and_Behavior_From_Sequential_Images/links/60955e5792851c490fc34e1e/Fungi-on-Mars-Evidence-of-Growth-and-Behavior-From-Sequential-Images.pdf


22 posted on 05/08/2021 3:54:17 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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Why oh why are we supplying mars with helicopters???


23 posted on 05/08/2021 4:10:14 AM PDT by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you. )
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The photos are legitimate NASA images. If you take the time to look at the original photos, its clear that there are seasonal changes. So how to account for those regular changes?

The journal that the article appears in is: Advances in Microbiology, vol 11, # 5. May 2021, and is heavily footnoted.

The original authors (https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Rhawn-Joseph/publication/351252619_Fungi_on_Mars_Evidence_of_Growth_and_Behavior_From_Sequential_Images/links/60955e5792851c490fc34e1e/Fungi-on-Mars-Evidence-of-Growth-and-Behavior-From-Sequential-Images.pdf) call them fungi-like, and make a comparison to Earthly fungi which they obviously cannot be; therefore, IT uses a different mechanism to advance and retreat, shrink and grow, expand and deflate.

They document a slime-like, amorphous shape-changing, mold that moves away from its original position frame by frame. What does that indicate?

Its possible, that while the authors call what they see as a fungi-like organism, it could well be that the fungi uses a lichen in symbiosis; IT could well be abiogenic - who’s to say? The paper says, “It is possible these specimens consist of minerals or other non-biological substances” and goes on to say, “However, if these tangled webs of strands consist of quartz or gypsum this does not rule out biology,” and then goes on to list several known Earthly organisms that are similar.

The thing about aliens is that they are alien.

Their conclusions:

It is well established that a variety of terrestrial organisms survive Mars-like conditions. Given the likelihood Earth has been seeding Mars with life and life has been repeatedly transferred between worlds (Beech et al. 2018; Joseph et al. 2019; 2020c; Schulze-Makuch et al. 2005), it would be surprising if there was no life on Mars.

However, in contrast to terrestrial organisms, Martian fungi, lichens, moulds, algae and other putative life-forms, would have evolved on and already be adapted to the low temperatures, intermittent availability of water, low amounts of free oxygen, and high levels of radiation that characterize the harsh Martian environment. Almost all scientists who have searched for current or past life on Mars, have reported positive findings.

What would be surprising is if there was no life on Mars. Positive findings include reports of biological activity and specimens that closely resemble fossilized domical stromatolites, bacterial mats, algae, tube worms, and metazoans; bacterial residue in Martian meteorites; and a host of what may be living fungi, algae, lichens, mould.

We have now presented sequential photographs of specimens that emerge from the soil, grow, change shape multiply or move to different locations and disappear; donut shapes resembling the lichen genus Ochrolechia and “milkcap mushrooms” and “donut” shaped Russulas; networks of white specimens resembling plasmodium, bulbous fruiting sporangia and interconnected clumps and sphericals - all of which may have become rigid, encrusted, calcified upon exposure to the surface; as well as specimens resembling puffballs with stalks or shedding what appears to be crustose and which are surrounded by white powder-chunky-leprose-spore-like material that also consists of what appears to be embryonic multi-open-tubular and stemmed mushroom-like formations; and statistical evidence that specimens in the arctic are growing in parallel, and that equatorial spherical specimens resembling fungal puffballs grow out of the ground, expanded in size and diameter, and grew closer together.

Similarities in morphology are not proof of life. It is possible that all the specimens presented here are abiotic. We cannot completely rule out minerals, weathering, and unknown geological forces that are unique to Mars and unknown and alien to Earth. However, growth, movement, alterations in location and shape, constitute behavior, and coupled with life-like morphology, strongly support the hypothesis there is life on Mars.


24 posted on 05/08/2021 4:42:47 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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Okay, so something from “The Next Web” is the rebuttal to “Coast to Coast AM”

The crazy vs. the crazy


25 posted on 05/08/2021 5:13:25 AM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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Excitement over this discovery is mushrooming.


26 posted on 05/08/2021 6:44:42 AM PDT by kanawa ((Securing the 2022/2024 elections is of paramount importance.))
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27 posted on 05/08/2021 6:49:25 AM PDT by BipolarBob (I'm not a thief! I said I'm a cat butler not a cat burglar.)
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I assume Fauci is included in the list of hacks.


28 posted on 05/08/2021 7:40:45 AM PDT by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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