NASA to announce "significant find" on Mars

[SPTO]

Re: NASA to announce "significant find" on Mars

Keep in mind that the colonization of planets and exploration of the solar system and beyond are not the only benefits we as Americans reap from the space program. Here's a list of more everyday benefits that you might be able to comprehend better than, say, the thrill of a manned space mission to an untraversed and possibly hospitable planet in our solar system.

http://www.ethicalatheist.com/docs/b...e_program.html

Let's not be provincial. I think this goes beyond the scope of "America".

Sorry for being nitpicky. I'm just playin with you.

[aukevin]

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no i dont think we will. im just saying that i find it hard to beleive that in the ENITIRE universe we are the only ones here.

I agree, like they say in Contact, "Well, if we are the only ones, it would be an awful waste of space, wouldn't it?"

[Skerik]

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Let's not be provincial. I think this goes beyond the scope of "America".

Sorry for being nitpicky. I'm just playin with you.

Yeah yeah. I was trying to appeal to those who I felt might be objecting to our further funding of the space program. But ok - humans.

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LOL, Sherik, and no Im not dumping on Space Exploration. As a kid, I wanted to be an astronaut. I wanted to fly into space and see it for myself up close and personal. Today Im intrigued with Space and time.

With that, finding deposits from millions of years ago on Mars has no barring on going to other galaxies. I know plantes and such have cycles but it doesn't take billions to figure that part out in its simplistic form.

My original question was how is this significant, which is isn't and I didn't mean to get into the discussion about tempur pedic beds and foil..lol when I asked.

Again to suggest life elsewhere is a guess and grains of a molecule that was possibly there.

Good ole earth is just fine, its the people who have complete dominion over it that is the problem.

[CaptainZombie]

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Serves no purpose?

Here is how I look at, when I look into the sky I remember every star is the sun for some galaxy. It seems impossible that there is no other life out there to me. We aren't that special on Earth.

I think that there are other life forms out there also.

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I think that there are other life forms out there also.

Where are they? Where do they live? What are they? Where is the proof they exist?

[supremeslang]

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The universe is so huge I feel there has to be something somewhere. No, I never seen anything in my 25 years here but I have not even seen all the city I live in either in all that time.

[neovsmatrix]

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Probably a couple million years ago.

I'm sure Richard C. Hoagland is jumping for joy since he's had the idea that Mars was once very much like earth until very recently. Of course some of his ideas such as extradimensional physics definitely fall into the "kooky" category.

Are you talking about string theory? That posits an 11-dimensional universe, and many physicists are supporters of that idea still. The problem is proving it. The math does support this idea though, and it's looked at as the possible theory of everything.

Its support has waned somewhat though, because of the difficulty in proving it, which critics claim makes it more philosophy than science, until of course someone can find a way to prove it.

[neovsmatrix]

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Where are they? Where do they live? What are they? Where is the proof they exist?

Well, the poster you responded to said he thinks that other lifeforms exist in the universe. He's not asserting that there IS life on other planets. Considering how vast the universe is, I would think statistics would favor the possibility of life existing on other planets.

[jmood88]

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I can't remember now but I swore I saw on an article that it said "several years ago". I'll try and find that later on.

Scientists say they have photographic evidence that suggests liquid water may have been on the planet as little as five years ago.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=420833&in_page_id=1770

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Well, the poster you responded to said he thinks that other lifeforms exist in the universe. He's not asserting that there IS life on other planets. Considering how vast the universe is, I would think statistics would favor the possibility of life existing on other planets.

I know he wasn't. I simply asked a question though. Sort of, what brings him to the conclusion.

That still went far away from the original question.

[SPTO]

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Are you talking about string theory? That posits an 11-dimensional universe, and many physicists are supporters of that idea still. The problem is proving it. The math does support this idea though, and it's looked at as the possible theory of everything.

Its support has waned somewhat though, because of the difficulty in proving it, which critics claim makes it more philosophy than science, until of course someone can find a way to prove it.

Nope this is different and definitely loopy. There are some things I agree with Hoagland on but the whole "hyperdimensional physics" theory is a little too much for me.

Here's a link that explains it. If you're still interested there's another link at the bottom from a Hoagland article that deals with it and the Exploding Planet theory.

Link

[P2K]

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To know that there was once water hence a high probability of life on a neighbouring planet relatively recent in the Solar System's history is VERY signficant. It means that life is not as precarious as we think it is. It could mean that we're not as special as we think we are and that there could be intelligent life elsewhere in the universe.

Looking at it practically, Mars having once had flowing water and possibly life would be the ideal candidate for terraforming and being colonized by humanity. We have screwed the pooch with Good 'Ol Planet Earth that colonization may be the one thing that saves humanity from dying out.

Colonization into space?








Gundam, baby!!! Woot! I'm all for space colonization! Yeah yeah!

[triplej96]

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Or a transformer..lol

Flowing water at this day and age, that would be a surprise, but I somehow doubt it. Life on another planets makes no sense to me anyhow. It serves no purpose.

Serves no purpose??? Care to elaborate KDRE...Just because it makes no sense to you doesn't mean there isn't a purpose to life else where (beyond earth). Just curious Considering only 4% of the world has been explored.

[AuburnAlumni]

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Anyone who believes that we are the ONLY planet in the ENTIRE UNIVERSE that has life, creatures, etc. on it is a M-O-R-O-N.

I guarantee you there are probably hundreds of thousands of civilizations spanning the universe at different stages of technology, etc.

To think otherwise is foolish. The VASTNESS of Space and you think we are IT?!! Ridiculous.