If we had to drink sea water we’d be snaffed too; the good news is that it rains occasionally and we can drink from rivers and lakes. Ancient Martians would certainly have figured that out as well. Reminds me of Santino Corleone asking Michael if he went to college for four years to get stupid...
Dunaliella Salina a type of Algae lives in salt fields.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunaliella_salina
Totally narrow, almost fraudulent conclusion.
I can drink water from lake Erie.
I can drink water from the Pacific ocean, just not too much.
I can drink water from an oasis in the middle of the Sahara.
There are places in Nevada that if I drank water from a hole in the ground, I’d be dead in 48 hours.
There are brine shrimp on the planet that live in water so corrosive it would probably burn a hole in your shirt.
But it is interesting we are getting some results back.
Yet another “life on another planet” theory wrecked.
God created it all, and there is only one Earth, and man is created in His image and every attempt to prove otherwise just continues to support that which we see by faith.
What silliness. Any organisms would have evolved for the specific environment of high salinity. The fact that “some” terrestrial organisms CAN live in these conditions (and given the teeming life around deep-sea “black smokers” where both the salinity and temperature are MUCH higher than regular sea-water, I don’t see any “salinity barrier” to life.
So the Earth lander landed near the Dead Sea and took samples back to Mars, where Martian scientists analyzed the water and said “Earth water is too salty to support life”.
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“The scientists say that the handful of terrestrial halophiles — species that can tolerate high salinity — descended from ancestors that first evolved in purer waters.”
How do they know this?
Earth is an extremely unique creation by our Creator.
Ah, the dangers of single-point extrapolations. I’m sure that a rock sample from the Dead Sea or Salt Lake would prompt the same assessment....