Life on Mars hopes raised

BBC News Online ^ | April. 5, 2002 | Dr. David Whitehouse

[Mike Darancette]

Life is rare.

Intelligent life is even rarer - witness the Democratic Party.

[WhiteyAppleseed]

Might as well make some noise on this quiet day of silence.

Life, ah yes, chlorophyl, and perhaps we should cut the Tree of Liberty, or what's left of it, so this precious life form can continue, unhampered by the sight of man.

Wouldn't it be something if this new life form resembled a fetus! Our beloved scientists would find themselves with a quandary--how to submit this find to the journals while simultaneously straddling the life begins at question.

Things could really begin to get curious should some televangelist suggest that this new find is really evidence that the concept of evolution may in fact have a life beyond earth, a kind of spiritual evolution never conceived of before.

The plot thickens.

[onedoug]

"If the Sun breed maggots in a dead dog...."

[BrooklynGOP]

I had the Mars Needs Women song in the early 90's on some techno mix tape.. Mars needs....women.

[BrooklynGOP]

Sure, send it up :). Maybe you should start a /Classics dir and send up all the oldies from early early 90's, or even before. Thanks.

[Maelstrom]

If they were serious in their search, they'd go to the edge of the poles.

[RightWhale]

There has never been a single solitary biological specimen found or recovered from outer space to date

How about building blocks of life? Amino acids, remote sensing techniques, of course. And what about the disputed Mars meteorite with its Mars bacillum fossil? Huh?

Still, astrobiologists are scarce, but there is a ton of data and more arriving every day. There are also exobiologists and zenobiologists, and specialists within the fields. Don't forget the wheat experiment to be launched to the ISS, and the many experimental closed-loop life support systems being developed for Mars exploration. Astrobiologists are developing crops that will grow in the fields of Mars. That is a lot to keep up with.

[RayBob]

Chicken, huh? When my daughter was 4 and 5 she would awake from a nightmare and run into our room. She would always have the same nightmare. A goose was attacking her or was outside her window or in her bed. The bird thing just kinda struck a chord there. How old is yours?

[DrewsDad]

He just hit 4 and his imagination is going wild.

[RadioAstronomer]

ping!

[Aracelis]

Thanks for the ping :)

[Sabertooth]

If there's chlorophyl on Mars, it got there from Earth.

[concerned about politics]

Environmentalist are getting their tents and shuttle tickets ready. They're going to try to grab the whole planet !!!
"Save the chlorophyll - for the sake of the children !!!

[scouse]

Any life on Mars probably came from Cuba.

Probe Into Cuba's Possible 'Sunken City' Advances
BY ANDREW CAWTHORNE
HAVANA - (Reuters) - Scientific investigators said on Friday they hope to better determine later this year if an unusual rock formation deep off Cuba's coast could be a sunken city from a previously unknown ancient civilization.

``These are extremely peculiar structures ... They have captured all our imagination,'' Cuban geologist Manuel Iturralde said at a conference after a week on a boat over the site.

[Ahban]

What you said.

[concerned about politics]

"I go to prepare a place for you..."

Hey, maybe we can be the new colonist, and leave the socialists to their own thirld world planet, aye? Wow. "A new land."