Breaking! There might be LIFE ON MARS (farting microbes)
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And because the word really ought to get out there - *promote.
Wow. I'm sorry. That made me very sad. I mean, a new car, a handjob from three trannies, a half drunk bottle of beer um.. just about anything....
Or the thought that there might have once been microbes that belched gas.
There's no question that NASA's next job is getting a probe to that methane, and no funding request should be turned down to do it. Potentially era-defining discovery. I do think the video's a little optimistic.
Having said that, let's not jump the gun. I don't want to come across as pissing on anybody's parade, but remember that this could turn out to be entirely geological in origin.
A more likely scenario is hydrothermal process involving chemical interaction between rock and water in aquifers below the Martian permafrost.
Will they use their lasers on us?
Yes.
Will they use their lasers on us?
One can only hope.
Who has read Ben Bova's Mars based books in the Grand Tour series?
The martians are just as bad as us.
Titan has a similar situation (with half the escape velocity and a bit less than half the surface temperature of mars) but its atmosphere is probably constantly being replenished from frozen and liquid hydrocarbons in its mantle and cryovolcanism induced by tidal interactions with Saturn.
Read it on NASA's page itself: http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2009/15jan_marsmethane.htm
Mars is not terraformable. Its gravity is too weak to hold water (literally) at earth-like temperatures. In theory we could send a shitload of methane and CO2 over there to warm it up, but that would escape into space rather quickly.
Titan has a similar situation (with half the escape velocity and a bit less than half the surface temperature of mars) but its atmosphere is probably constantly being replenished from frozen and liquid hydrocarbons in its mantle and cryovolcanism induced by tidal interactions with Saturn.
More to the point, because Mars doesn't have an active magma region to interact with the upper crust, Mars doesn't create much of a magnetic field. This would mean that even a Mars with a terraformed surface and a breathable atmosphere would still be subjected to potentially lethal solar radiation.
Woooo!!
I've been wondering if NASA found living microorganisms, in the ice under their probe, and were forced to keep it quiet, because of the social ramifications.
I got news for you Westy.. This hound sitting next to me is putting off enough methane right now to cloud up both Earth and Mars put together!
http://www.videosift.com/video/NASA-The-Mystery-of-Martian-Methane-1-15-09
it goes into the 'biology vs. geology' details a bit more
As soon as they get it, the hype will die.
"BREAKING OBAMA IS A TERRORIST MUSLIM EXTREMIST AFTERALL!!!!!!!! ..............................................................(no it's not 100% confirmed yet)"
BREAKING METHANE ON MARS - reasonable, 100% confirmable.
BREAKING LIFE ON MARS - unreasonable, 0% confirmable, 100% speculation, my title is as good as yours.
Vote chasing of the highest order. I bet as soon as the next "media sensationalism" video comes out you'll be right up there on the comments list slating them for rediculous ratings chasing crap.
>> ^gwiz665:
Will they use their lasers on us?
Yes.
Also Yes.
Most of the media suck at reporting science.
And most of the people reading it are just as clueless. Such as, for instance, yourself. Your statement regarding abiotic methane betrays a GROSSLY scientifically ignorant idea of the thing. You are obviously unaware of the long term thermodynamic instability of CH4 in the Martian atmosphere as produced by the non-ozone layer shielded high ultraviolet radiation flux on that planet. Further, you are clearly clueless as to the nature of the impossibility of extremely volatile organic compounds in a lithospherically differentiated small rocky planet. In conclusion, stop throwing stones inside your vitreous domicile.
it's not just unlikely that would be the cause of methane but take into account the improbabilities of lifeforms evolving on two rocks right next to each other, independently...
yes okay it's nice to hope but we are being fed this tripe for a reason, they're just attempting to get more funding for the space program through sensationalizing scientific findings, or something thereabouts.
somewhat related food for thought :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rare_Earth_hypothesis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox