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Building Blocks of Life Found on Mars
National Geographic ^ | 06/07/18 | Michael Greshko

Posted on 06/07/2018 11:21:25 AM PDT by Simon Green

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To: reasonisfaith

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

It’s pretty clear how life is built, and from what.

They mystery (to some), of course, is the Builder.


41 posted on 06/07/2018 12:20:32 PM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem)
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To: 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?

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Perhaps it did, untold billions of years ago and then ended. What we are findings is what remains after a world dies.


42 posted on 06/07/2018 12:22:32 PM PDT by billyboy15
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To: Cementjungle

Which leads to my question above.


43 posted on 06/07/2018 12:23:24 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (The ONLY purpose for gun controls is so that one group can force its will on a less powerful group.)
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To: Avalon Memories

Could be, I just read it one way. I guess the climate change scientists have given me a negative view of the professional scientist.


44 posted on 06/07/2018 12:24:15 PM PDT by Repealthe17thAmendment
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To: billyboy15

See Cementjungle’s link
http://freerepublic.com/focus/news/3661313/posts?page=23#23


45 posted on 06/07/2018 12:25:26 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (The ONLY purpose for gun controls is so that one group can force its will on a less powerful group.)
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To: TigersEye

http://freerepublic.com/focus/news/3661313/posts?page=23#23


46 posted on 06/07/2018 12:26:08 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (The ONLY purpose for gun controls is so that one group can force its will on a less powerful group.)
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To: InABunkerUnderSF

I suspect crude oil...


47 posted on 06/07/2018 12:29:38 PM PDT by Hootowl99
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Yes, but all of those places are on planet Earth where we have fairly good proof that the conditions for life do exist.


48 posted on 06/07/2018 12:31:09 PM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason.)
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To: Simon Green

This is cool, but it reminds me of an old anecdote.

Tell somebody there are billions of stars in the sky, and they will believe you. Tell them a bench has wet paint on it, and they have to touch it.


49 posted on 06/07/2018 12:46:24 PM PDT by skinndogNN
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To: Simon Green
LIFE ON MARS!


50 posted on 06/07/2018 12:47:33 PM PDT by N. Theknow (Kennedys-Can't drive, can't ski, can't fly, can't skipper a boat-But they know what's best for you.)
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To: Simon Green

Frankly, my dears, I don’t give a damn......


51 posted on 06/07/2018 12:47:48 PM PDT by FrankR (If it wasn't for stupid ideas, the left would have no ideas at all.)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Are you the professor from Gilligan’s Island?


52 posted on 06/07/2018 1:19:31 PM PDT by sanjuanbob
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To: Simon Green

That proves it’s ALIENS! LOL!


53 posted on 06/07/2018 1:19:38 PM PDT by 2harddrive
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To: Repealthe17thAmendment

I understand. Too many of our formerly respected professions and institutions have let us down, so it is hard to trust anymore. Once the basis for trust is eroded, everything becomes suspect.


54 posted on 06/07/2018 1:21:59 PM PDT by Avalon Memories ( Proud Deplorable. Proud born-in-the-USA American Dreamer.)
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To: Simon Green

Maybe a NASA scientist accidentally spit some chaw on the foot of the rover before it went up.


55 posted on 06/07/2018 1:50:42 PM PDT by fruser1
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To: TigersEye

And my point is if life can arise in such hospitable places, why not Mars? Maybe life doesn’t just spontaneously arise. Maybe there is a Creator.


56 posted on 06/07/2018 2:23:43 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (The ONLY purpose for gun controls is so that one group can force its will on a less powerful group.)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

I understood your point but even the most inhospitable places on Earth have conditions that don’t exist on Mars. Not even close.


57 posted on 06/07/2018 2:30:58 PM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason.)
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To: Simon Green

My daughter just wrote a musical about the Mars Rovers, with Curiosity as the main character. It opens in July here in Seattle. She’s a science geek with a theater degree.


58 posted on 06/07/2018 4:06:45 PM PDT by lkco
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To: Jewbacca

That’s a good way to put it.


59 posted on 06/07/2018 4:48:00 PM PDT by reasonisfaith ("...because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved." (2 Thessalonians))
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To: Simon Green

Cause the Bible doesn’t mention it. The Bible doesn’t have any dentists either...


60 posted on 06/07/2018 5:08:12 PM PDT by Seruzawa (TANSTAAFL!)
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