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First Martian life likely broke the planet with climate change, made themselves extinct
Live Science via MSN ^ | October 13, 2022 | By Ben Turner

Posted on 10/13/2022 1:41:48 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

Ancient microbial life on Mars could have destroyed the planet’s atmosphere through climate change, which ultimately led to its extinction, new research has suggested.

The new theory comes from a climate modeling study that simulated hydrogen-consuming, methane-producing microbes living on Mars roughly 3.7 billion years ago. At the time, atmospheric conditions were similar to those that existed on ancient Earth during the same period. But instead of creating an environment that would help them thrive and evolve, as happened on Earth, Martian microbes may have doomed themselves just as they were getting started, according to the study published Oct. 10 in the journal Nature Astronomy.

The model suggests that the reason life thrived on Earth and was doomed on Mars is because of the gas compositions of the two planets, and their relative distances from the sun. Being farther away from our star than Earth, Mars was more reliant on a potent fog of heat-trapping greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide and hydrogen, to maintain hospitable temperatures for life. So as ancient Martian microbes ate hydrogen (a potent greenhouse gas) and produced methane (a significant greenhouse gas on Earth but less potent than hydrogen) they slowly ate into their planet’s heat-trapping blanket, eventually making Mars so cold that it could no longer evolve complex life.

The scientists believe their findings suggest that life may not be innately self-sustaining in every conducive environment it pops up in, and that it can easily wipe itself out by accidentally destroying the foundations for its own existence.

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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Thought this was The Bee at first.


21 posted on 10/13/2022 1:51:45 PM PDT by week 71
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

This has to be one of the dumbest premises I’ve ever encountered.

A blatant falsehood crafted to appear to support the never ending crusade of the left to enslave us under the color of “climate change”.


22 posted on 10/13/2022 1:52:53 PM PDT by Pox (Eff You China. Buy American!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

This is absolutely absurd. There is no evidence whatsoever to support any of this yet they are are playing on stupid people to believe this.


23 posted on 10/13/2022 1:53:05 PM PDT by pfflier
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Pure fantasy.


24 posted on 10/13/2022 1:53:28 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

OMG what have we become.


25 posted on 10/13/2022 1:54:07 PM PDT by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world or something )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The idiot who wrote this didn’t get a grant if it didn’t push the OMG! CLIMATE CHANGE! agenda.

This is the state of modern so-called “Science”.

Eisenhower warned us of this.


26 posted on 10/13/2022 1:54:10 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: tbpiper

Ditto.


27 posted on 10/13/2022 1:54:24 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar
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To: Hazwaste

Mars has no magnetosphere, so even if somehow a microbe spontaneously assembled itself, it would probably have been pretty quickly obliterated by cosmic radiation.


28 posted on 10/13/2022 1:54:29 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I thought this was the Bee.


29 posted on 10/13/2022 1:55:12 PM PDT by P-Marlowe (I got the <ΙΧΘΥΣ>< variant. Catch it. John 3:16)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
'could have'

I guess speculation is now settled science.

30 posted on 10/13/2022 1:55:51 PM PDT by usurper
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Modern science...


31 posted on 10/13/2022 1:56:20 PM PDT by nicollo ("I said no!")
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Interesting how “suggest” and “could” in the article became “likely” in the headline.


32 posted on 10/13/2022 1:57:09 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (The government sees you as either livestock or pet. If things get bad they will eat their pets too.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Did I miss the mention of water vapor and the weak gravity on Mars? This smells like some student’s thesis and is about as useful as the study that estimated the weight of all the ants in the world that was published a while ago.


33 posted on 10/13/2022 1:57:43 PM PDT by Honcho Bongs (Socialism is the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance and the gospel of envy. - Churchill)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

WOW!! I thought LSD went away with the end of the Grateful Dead


34 posted on 10/13/2022 1:59:02 PM PDT by eyeamok (founded in cynicism, wrapped in sarcasm)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

35 posted on 10/13/2022 1:59:10 PM PDT by rfp1234 (Comitia asinorum et rhinocerum delenda sunt.)
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To: dfwgator

I just heard breaking news that a Chinese Mars rover uncovered a Martian Time Capsule containing a dire warning for future civilizations. Translators have been busy the last few hours trying to decode the message and so far they have the following: “Don’t make the same mistakes we made, never vote for a democrat and for heavens sake never convert to electric cars. Our ancestors uncovered this same warning from the remains of the ninth planet but we ignored it and it is now too late to reverse our course. We are doomed. Best of luck and don’t say we didn’t warn you!”


36 posted on 10/13/2022 1:59:54 PM PDT by TonyM (Score Event)
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To: Boogieman

It ain’t the kind of place to raise your kids.


37 posted on 10/13/2022 2:00:20 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Martian farts...because 95% carbon dioxide...is a gas, man.


38 posted on 10/13/2022 2:00:56 PM PDT by RckyRaCoCo (Please Pray For My Brother Ken.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I stopped reading at “new theory”.
I will now read the FR comments to learn why I stopped.


39 posted on 10/13/2022 2:01:08 PM PDT by certrtwngnut (4- Do something,,,,even if it's wrong.)
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To: mikelets456

No worries. 2 weeks from now, they’ll say Pluto went extinct due to the previous Pluto inhabitants driving V 8’S.


40 posted on 10/13/2022 2:01:33 PM PDT by max americana (Fired leftards at work since 2008 at every election just to see them cry. I hate them all.)
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