Posted on 11/24/2012 5:03:29 PM PST by lbryce
The King... MY GOD, THEY’VE FOUND ELVIS!!!!!
Evidence from Bill Clinton.
I agree, it's got to be hydrocarbons, oil. Mars is greasy. Now we can make fuel for return trips home.
Here's what I think is the background of what is at issue here. Previously in the 20th century before space probes and larger telescopes which could measure the chemical composition of the planets, methane and hydrocarbons were thought to only exist on Earth, as they were created by living organisms. In fact, one early test for livf on other planets was to detect methane. Methane = life, as simple as that.
However, that got blown out of the water as all of our large gas giants have significant proportions of methane, plus at least the moon Titan. Yet no one now proposes that there is life there based on only the presence of methane. And so now we have at best inconsistent explanations as to why there is methane on different planets.
There has been methane detected on Mars. So, where does all this methane in the solar system come from? On Earth, it is declared to be biological processes, on other planets, it isn't, on Mars, they are sitting on the fence.
The origin of methane and petroleum itself has different theorys, including the Abiogenic petroleum origin, proposed by Thomas Gold. While that theory is not in favor, it was the only theory I know of that takes into account that methane is being found all across the solar system.
So basically, the methane on Marss is either being created by living organisms, or it is being outgassed from the rocks of mars itself, in a way that science has currently not supported.
life on Mars? A new food source. I hope they don’t taste like chicken, I’m all chickened out.
This is already being worked on.
That would make the needle jump too. Water would be very interesting but not really astounding.
How do we know that any biologic samples are not the result of contamination from the probes that we sent to Mars over the last decades? After all, scientists believe the much more implausible theory that life came to Earth aboard chunks of Martian soil blasted from the surface of Mars by a meteor impact, survived flight through open space and fiery entrance through the Earth’s atmosphere...
No, they already announced it. They were digging and found an old tennis shoe.
And if the Brits send electrical stuff up there, will they have to call the voltage datum “mars?”
Tribbles.
I am guessing it doesn’t matter what they claim they find, it will be whatever is need for more funding.
You are free to go to mars and check their findings yourself to see if they are making stuff up.<Just kidding>
“Statue of Elvis found on Mars!”
I seen it on the History Channel.
Previews of new episode:
Dead Bigfoot in WW II bomber found on Mars.
"Soon"? Perhaps in a geologic time frame. But 'soon' in our frame of reference? Um...no.
I mean, c'mon, like, that's GOTTA be from, like, Venus or Andromeda or some s*** like that. Eyeballs don't grow on trees!
Jimmy Hoffa...
yep, more funding to outreach to muslims to education about the great islamic space heros of the 7th century and that we need more windmills to counteract glowbull warming.
If they’ve found water and/or fossils then that could support the hydroplate theory...
Center for Scientific Creation - In the Beginning: Compelling Evidence for Creation and the Flood
http://www.creationscience.com/onlinebook/IntheBeginningTOC.html
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