Former NASA scientist says they found life on Mars in the 1970s

CNN ^ | Updated 0809 GMT (1609 HKT) October 15, 2019 | By Jessie Yeung

[TruthWillWin]

We knew this in the 1890's:

[Red Badger]

We knew this in the 1870's!..............🙄

[Mr. Lucky]

Populated with Klingons, perhaps?

[wally_bert]

There before Gene Hunt.

[jeffc]

I think it would be cool if we found the ruins of an ancient civilization on Mars. I bet we’d send some people there el pronto, then!

[Red Badger]

Either that or we’d send a bomb and blow it to smithereens.................

[TruthWillWin]

We knew this in the 1780's:

1784: Sir William Herschel writes that dark areas on Mars are oceans and the lighter areas are land. He speculates that Mars is inhabited by intelligent beings who "probably enjoy a situation similar to our own."

[Red Badger]

Aristotle knew this in the 4th Century BC!....... Https://www.astrobio.net/retrospections/plurality-of-worlds/amp/

[Wuli]

You have to read reports in a number of the links in the article to get past the innuendo in the article to what was and was not discovered.

1. The scientific standard is met when a finding can be reproduced independent from a previous test. In 1970 case they weren’t, so they don’t stand as “proof”.

2. In 2018 what was found was “organic compounds”. What is an organic compound? It is any of a large class of chemical compounds in which one or more atoms of carbon are covalently linked to atoms of other elements, most commonly hydrogen, oxygen, or nitrogen.

3. What was found in 2018 was believed to be from material that was dated to about 3 billion years ago. At most what it might mean was that some kind of life, producing or made of “organic compounds” may have been present on Mars 3 billion years ago. That 2018 finding is not evidence of life on Mars today.

[Nifster]

Please pass the tin foil hat

[TruthWillWin]

Egyptians knew before Aristotle:

[Red Badger]

Ancient cavemen knew this!............

https://www.barstoolsports.com/boston/no-biggie-just-10000-year-old-cave-paintings-of-aliens-have-been-found

[TruthWillWin]

I give up.....

[dfwgator]

Sailors fighting in the dance hall
Oh man, look at those cavemen go
It’s the freakiest show
Take a look at the lawman
Beating up the wrong guy
Oh man, wonder if he’ll ever know
He’s in the best selling show
Is there life on Mars?

[Conan the Librarian]

I got to see both Viking launches from KSC, and, briefly met Dr. Gerald Soffen, lead scientist on the Viking Mission. Straight up guy. If they had seriously found any signs of life on Mars, he would have said so. They did have some inconclusive results, but, if it had been worth exploring further by those methods, he would have seen that it happened.

A brief article about him. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Soffenvv

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

It’s funny how, when you read the story, it belies the headline.

Exactly. Discovering "the essence of life" is not the same as discovering life.

[SunkenCiv]

The Levin experiment (glad to see he's still alive) was the only thing aboard Viking with the setup and sensitivity to detect life, many on FR probably rememeber it from that time as I do. Professional jealousy is probably the reason there's been unrelenting denial of the findings.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks!

[Tommy Revolts]

Climate Change wiped them out. ⸮

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Red Badger and BenLurkin.

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