Life on Mars confirmed!

Donkey Oaty

Way hay!

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/nasa-finds-evidence-of-life-on-mars-9929510.html

New data from Nasa's Curiosity Rover suggests:

One of the instruments on the robot found mysterious spikes of methane that cannot easily be explained by geology or other theories. Scientists can’t be sure what is causing the spikes, but it is possible that it could be very small, bacteria-like living organisms.
If the gas is coming from living, breathing microbes then it would mark one of the biggest discoveries in history.

You heard it here first, folks!

But there are serious decisions to be made.

Should we nuke them to be on the safe side, or send someone to have sex with the best-looking one under the cover of being on some anthropological mission funded by an evil corporate mining company?

dmc17

So, they discovered a fart on Mars?

bodhrandude

WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE.

Donkey Oaty

dmc17 wrote: »

So, they discovered a fart on Mars?

Yes.

Martian farts imply Martian flatulence producers.

kyote00

Mr Bowie will be pleased

Saipanne

Don't get your hopes up.

El Weirdo

I for one, welcome our new Martian overlords.

RDM_83 again

Kermit.de.frog

I blame Fianna Fáil.

Straylight

Tim Burton predicted this was going to happen and no-one took him seriously!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMdC45S79uQ

steddyeddy

Wow I was only reading about astrobiology the other day.

Turtyturd

I seen it on a different site so didn't hear it here first.

Custardpi

Meh. By the looks of things it's a god awful small affair.

Donkey Oaty

Turtyturd wrote: »

I seen it on a different site so didn't hear it here first.

Thank you for letting me know. Please post IP address and browsing history so I can specifically exclude you from the generalisation in the OP, thus maintaining the integrity of the thread.

Tail Docker

steddyeddy wrote: »

Wow I was only reading about astrobiology the other day.

Yeah, me too. *










*may not be true.

DoYouEvenLift

This will be downplayed by the average person because they'll expect "life found on Mars" to only being other intelligent life and will be disappointed when they realise its "only" bacteria.

BoJack Horseman

It would be genuinely an amazing discovery.... But I don't think this is it.

steddyeddy

Waits for feminists to miss the big picture and criticise fashion sense of scientists involved :P

The Backwards Man

Microbes on Mars?

It's a god-awful small affair.

kneemos

Is that rover really on Mars or a Hollywood lot?

tayto lover

When that little robotic camera thingy was filming on Mars i thought i got a glimpse of a Carlsberg sign.

Banjo String

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OY_zodcH-08

dmc17 wrote: »

So, they discovered a fart on Mars?

castletownman

tayto lover wrote: »

When that little robotic camera thingy was filming on Mars i thought i got a glimpse of a Carlsberg sign.

Sure it wasn't the inevitable Irish pub sign? :pac:

PizzamanIRL

I'm going to go there right away and tell them that back on Earth I am what's considered to be a beautiful specimen. Then when the real beautiful people come, they'll think you're ugly.

Yeah let's go! I hope they have condoms.

Birneybau

Custardpi wrote: »

Meh. By the looks of things it's a god awful small affair.

The Backwards Man wrote: »

Microbes on Mars?

It's a god-awful small affair.

Are yee the girls with the mousey hair?

dmc17

Turtyturd wrote: »

I seen it on a different site so didn't hear it here first.

I seen it here first, I didn't hear it yet though

nullzero

steddyeddy wrote: »

Wow I was only reading about astrobiology the other day.

Wow, I was only farting earlier on too.

Dont call me Shirley

Donkey Oaty wrote: »

send someone to have sex with the best-looking one under the cover of being on some anthropological mission funded by an evil corporate mining company?

Volunteer!

DoYouEvenLift

steddyeddy wrote: »

Waits for feminists to miss the big picture and criticise fashion sense of scientists involved :P

Or demand an even 50/50 male to female ratio amongst aliens!

spongebob89

I wrecking mars was once like earth with living people and we scortched it all up just like whats happening to earth now, all we do is kill each other and destroy our planet all for money or religion, its one thing that has never ever changed.

dmc17

I've cracked the fart on Mars (not literally). All the work Christmas parties would've been on around the same time recently and with all that booze and food, the methane probably escaped from Earth.

Donkey Oaty

spongebob89 wrote: »

all we do is kill each other and destroy our planet all for money or religion

Nice of you to share, Brother Spongebob - I thought it was only me who did that.

mbur

This reply to the indo article by one Michael Rivero is a bit long for AH but is well worth repeating because it explains why a 1976 positive result was hushed up by NASA

Michael Rivero 16 minutes ago
Back in 1976 the Viking Landers carried two different experiments to detect life. The first took a sample of Martian soil and dropped it into a generic nutrient solution tagged with a radioactive isotope and waited for radioactive gas to be released by metabolic processes. This experiment showed a positive result.

The second experiment was a gas chromatograph/mass spectrometer that heated a sample of Martian soil to cause large organic molecules to leave the soil and be drawn into a mass spectrometer, but unlike the inorganic mass spectrometer the heat was kept low enough to not cause the molecules themselves to come apart. This experiment returned a negative for the organic molecules it was designed to detect.

NASA was faced with one positive and one negative result. Most of us sitting at those consoles were convinced the positive needed to be given priority.

NASA was under a huge amount of public pressure over the issue of life on Mars. In particular the religious were adamant that there could not possibly be life on Mars because the Bible did not mention it, and life on other planets meant Earth was not special in the eyes of whatever gods were being prayed to. Some of the controllers were getting death threats from fanatics like the Children of God. The post-Apollo "New" NASA was already entrenched. The scientists with the PhDs were no longer in control, but political appointees with MBAs ran the show, and so a political decision was made to ignore the positive result, rely on the negative, and declare that Viking had not found any life on Mars at all. That placated the masses at what we all felt was the expense of the truth.

Now, years later, subsequent probes to Mars have discovered a high amount of perchlorate in the Martian soil. In the presence of heat, perchlorate will decompose organic molecules. So the Viking GC/MS was destroying the organic molecules before it ever had a chance to detect them. That means the negative result was bogus data and can be discarded. That leaves just one positive result.

In subsequent years, other scientists have re-examined the Viking data and come to the conclusion that Viking did indeed find life on Mars.

And before anyone shouts, "Oh no, NASA would never hide such an important find", please recall that when Marco Polo returned from China he was promptly locked away in a dungeon by the Dominicans on the orders of the church, who thought that their control over Europe would be threatened by public awareness of a great civilization to the East that had never heard of Jesus. Eventually, word of Marco Polo's discoveries leaked out and he was released.

There is no question that confirmation of extraterrestrial life will be a socially transformative event. Humans might decide to put down their weapons of war and unite to find our just who is out there. For those governments dependent on war, that is a huge threat to their power and ample motive to bias their assessment of the Viking results towards the negative.

SEPT 23 1989

Tell us what you really found NASA

Saipanne

mbur wrote: »

This reply to the indo article by one Michael Rivero is a bit long for AH but is well worth repeating because it explains why a 1976 positive result was hushed up by NASA

Abrahamic religion has nowhere to hide if extraterrestrial life is found. Nowhere.

Donkey Oaty

please recall that when Marco Polo returned from China he was promptly locked away in a dungeon by the Dominicans on the orders of the church, who thought that their control over Europe would be threatened by public awareness of a great civilization to the East that had never heard of Jesus.

Can we have a more recent example?

Saipanne

Donkey Oaty wrote: »

Can we have a more recent example?

Lazy, lazy, lazy.

Here...

http://bit.ly/13uYnRb

Custardpi

Saipanne wrote: »

Abrahamic religion has nowhere to hide if extraterrestrial life is found. Nowhere.

I think you underestimate the imagination & resourcefulness of theologians. At worst they can resort to saying it's mentioned in a page from the bible that's been "mislaid".

Knifey Spoony

Announcement from NASA:

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=4413

Organic molecules, which contain carbon and usually hydrogen, are chemical building blocks of life, although they can exist without the presence of life. Curiosity's findings from analyzing samples of atmosphere and rock powder do not reveal whether Mars has ever harbored living microbes, but the findings do shed light on a chemically active modern Mars and on favorable conditions for life on ancient Mars.

So, NASA hasn't found life on Mars.

Donkey Oaty

Saipanne wrote: »

Lazy, lazy, lazy.

Here...

http://bit.ly/13uYnRb

So you are trusting Google, who are the current establishment, to provide you with information?

Interesting...

But it is discussed here.

Saipanne

Custardpi wrote: »

I think you underestimate the imagination & resourcefulness of theologians. At worst they can resort to saying it's mentioned in a page from the bible that's been "mislaid".

Oh, I don't think they'll stop believing. But I think it will deal quite a hammer blow to the bronze age desert myth.

One Christian told me once that if life in another planet is ever found, he simply could not have faith after that. And that guy is pretty hardcore, the bible is literal type.

But most won't change their view.

Saipanne

Donkey Oaty wrote: »

So you are trusting Google, who are the current establishment, to provide you with information?

Interesting...

But it is discussed here.

Nonsense.

I'm flattered, by the way.

strobe

Custardpi wrote: »

Meh. By the looks of things it's a god awful small affair.

The Backwards Man wrote: »

Microbes on Mars?

It's a god-awful small affair.

Could someone explain this reference to me please?

I get things.

Saipanne

strobe wrote: »

Could someone explain this reference to me please?

I get things.

**** reference to a **** song by a goggle eyed overrated freak.

Custardpi

Saipanne wrote: »

**** reference to a **** song by a goggle eyed overrated freak.

:eek::eek::eek: Burn the heretic!!! BURN HIM!!!! :mad::mad::mad:

Digital Solitude

strobe wrote: »

Could someone explain this reference to me please?

I get things.

Reference to David Bowie's Life on Mars

*EDIT What saipanne said :P

Leeleather

Confirmed?? Really? :rolleyes:

BorneTobyWilde

Get to the choppa !!
Now!!!

strobe

Saipanne wrote: »

**** reference to a **** song by a goggle eyed overrated freak.

I'm still non the wiser. Why must you toy with me Saipanne?

Edit: Subsequent posts have elucidated (if that's in fact a word) that it's a reference to David Bowie's song Life On Mars.

Donkey Oaty

strobe wrote: »

Edit: Subsequent posts have elucidated (if that's in fact a word) that it's a reference to David Bowie's song Life On Mars.

Ah feck - I misinterpreted the post and had my red shoes on and was ready to dance.

I feel so stupid.

VinLieger

Misleading thread title is misleading, the methane possibly came from some kind of organism or bacteria but there's ZERO proof of anything yet except they found methane