Building Blocks of Life Found on Mars

National Geographic ^ | 06/07/18 | Michael Greshko

[mikhailovich]

I'll probably catch hell for this, but I think a lot of scientists into space exploration are on a mission to discover life and dismiss the Bible for good. I feel sorry for these lost souls. Most of them have a few things in common: 1) They are atheists, 2) They think they are smarter than anyone in the universe, including God.

I'm all for exploring space and funding missions, but not when its central desire is to find life. There isn't any, and its a futile exercise that wastes millions of taxpayer dollars.

[Future Snake Eater]

It sounds to my highly untrained ears that they’re going along the biological “fossil fuels” theory of the development of this stuff. Isn’t that still an unproven, somewhat controversial theory in nerd circles?

[Cementjungle]

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/top-ten-places-where-life-shouldnt-exist-but-does-144112310/

[wally_bert]

Rock Hudson blew up a bunch of earth built spaceships to prevent anyone going back.

[sanjuanbob]

“rover has periodically sniffed Mars’s atmosphere”

things that make you go hmmmm.

[Theo]

"Since 2012, humankind the USA has been driving a nuclear-powered sciencemobile the size of an SUV on another planet." There. Fixed it.

[jerod]

O M G.... So do they have a McDonald’s? Because I ain’t heading there until there is at least one McDonald’s and they’re going to need a lot more than ‘blocks’ to make it happen... I’m talking 100% beef burgers made of whole cows and parts there of.

[erlayman]

There are scientists that are going to make us virtually immortal in the next few decades as well. How can you possibly be against medicine they ask.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Which leads to this question: If all the “building blocks” are there, why didn’t life begin on Mars? Could it be that life doesn’t just spontaneously happen?

[Simon Green]

I'm all for exploring space and funding missions, but not when its central desire is to find life. There isn't any

And you know this....how?

[Reno89519]

What a wasted headline! From yesterday, a NASA bombshell. Sorry, yawn. Didn’t we really know about this already? A bombshell would be to tell us there are aliens out there, show us proof on Mars or the Moon, or floating by our space station. Otherwise, they are simply wasting taxpayer dollars trying to look relevant. They should have just announced what they found in a simple press release and get back to work.

[reasonisfaith]

It would be nice if they could admit they don’t know how life is built.

That they have no clue how “life’s building blocks” can in fact be described as life’s building blocks.

[reasonisfaith]

Doesn’t mean you’re not smart, just means you don’t know. Come on.

[Jewbacca]

[Ken H]

“There is actually a youtube video that makes the claim, based on the substances that have been found on mars, that it was wiped out by a nuclear war.”
________

Is such a thing even possible?

Yes it is!

[TigersEye]

Which leads to this question: If all the “building blocks” are there, why didn’t life begin on Mars?

That is the yet unanswered question. Maybe it did and it died out. Maybe the conditions never existed for those building blocks to be utilized.

[TigersEye]

They fart in our general direction!

[billyboy15]

Why does life have to be “as we know it”?

How arrogant are we to even think in the 100 BILLION GALAXIES estimated to exist in the cosmos, that the term “life” can only be applied if it conforms to our own makeup?

[Jewbacca]

Nothing in the Tanakh states, or even implies, Earth is the only place where life exists.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Mars’ atmosphere is only about 0.6% of earth’s at about 0.09 psi. Despite what you saw on The Martian, you would need a full spacesuit to be outside and you could not patch a blown airlock with plastic sheeting and duct tape.