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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
Science!!
61 posted on 10/13/2022 2:15:25 PM PDT by D_Idaho ("For we wrestle not against flesh and blood...")
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Modeling studies consistently prove that either very few scientists are capable of creating accurate models, OR (and this is more highly likely) creating accurate models is entirely NOT the point, because accurate models would not yield the desired result.


62 posted on 10/13/2022 2:15:32 PM PDT by HKMk23 (https://youtu.be/LTseTg48568)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Mars doesn’t have a magnetosphere.


63 posted on 10/13/2022 2:16:13 PM PDT by Mr. Blond
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To: dfwgator

Martian bug farts.


64 posted on 10/13/2022 2:16:59 PM PDT by RedMonqey
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
These Climate Change fanatics will stop at nothing to apply their one pet theory to everything.
Mars does not have a dense atmosphere because it's too lightweight to hold on to it and does not have enough geological outgassing to compensate.

65 posted on 10/13/2022 2:17:39 PM PDT by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer; Sidebar Moderator

NOT. BREAKING. NEWS.


66 posted on 10/13/2022 2:19:38 PM PDT by Yossarian
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To: dfwgator

So instead of “evolve or die,” it’s “evolve and die.”


67 posted on 10/13/2022 2:21:07 PM PDT by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Dems can learn 2 important lessons from this:

1. It's not easy being Green

2. Go Red and your dead

68 posted on 10/13/2022 2:22:21 PM PDT by hflynn
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
What a bunch of unmitigated BS.

There is NO PROOF that life existed on Mars, and these morons just ASSUME there was, and then they ASSUME it's extinct, then they just ASSUME they know why.

I mean, just go whole hog and assume the planet was alive with unicorns and leprechans.

69 posted on 10/13/2022 2:22:37 PM PDT by Lazamataz (The firearms I own today, are the firearms I will die with. How I die will be up to them.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Man...we need to somehow package climate change as a weapon.


70 posted on 10/13/2022 2:24:36 PM PDT by ealgeone
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Oh puleeze


71 posted on 10/13/2022 2:26:16 PM PDT by RaceBannon (Rom 5:8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for )
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To: Honcho Bongs

“Kelp, people just don’t like teachers blowing up their kids!”


72 posted on 10/13/2022 2:26:22 PM PDT by RckyRaCoCo (Please Pray For My Brother Ken.)
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To: Boogieman

I was going to post the same thing. A strong Magnetic field is vital for a planet to have an atmosphere, as well as protecting life from solar radiation.


73 posted on 10/13/2022 2:31:49 PM PDT by Conan the Librarian (Conan the Sailing Librarian)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I just don’t know about the proclamations of the new, government paid religious-sciencists.

Something seems, not scientific…


74 posted on 10/13/2022 2:34:26 PM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion (Fraud vitiates everything. )
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To: Yossarian

I posted in Chat. Not Breaking News.


75 posted on 10/13/2022 2:37:10 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money)
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To: week 71
Thought this was The Bee at first.

The Bee has become redundant.

76 posted on 10/13/2022 2:37:49 PM PDT by TangoLimaSierra (⭐⭐Public hangings will wake 'em up.⭐⭐)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I smell bullshit.


77 posted on 10/13/2022 2:39:22 PM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham ("God is a spirit, and man His means of walking on the earth.")
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

These jerks will make up anything in order to feed off the taxpayers trough. No theory is too far fetched when they want more taxpayer grant money.
What a racket.


78 posted on 10/13/2022 2:39:52 PM PDT by Bullish (Rot'sa Ruck America. )
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To: dljordan

“Is that why Mars is radioactive?”

Apparently the microbes had a miniature nuclear war also.


79 posted on 10/13/2022 2:41:55 PM PDT by Neverlift (When someone says "you just can't make this stuff up" odds are good, somebody did.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Maybe, maybe, maybe...
Possibly, possibly, possibly...
Perhaps, perhaps, perhaps...
Could of, could of, could of...

Another load of crappola.


80 posted on 10/13/2022 2:42:20 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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