Dia on 23/11/2012 at 13:03
I hate it when they do this. I have the patience of a gnat and will deliberately forget that I ever read about this non-news from Mars. Otherwise I may have to speculate until my head explodes, which is always quite messy.
Jason Moyer on 23/11/2012 at 14:39
Maybe they've found the source of Dethy's ennui.
Renzatic on 23/11/2012 at 14:42
Quote Posted by zacharias
It'll lead to the discovery that Hitler was of extra terrestial origin and thus explaining his dark charisma.
Dunno where you're getting that idea. Every extraterrestrial I've met has been socially awkward. Couldn't even carry on a 5 minute conversation without eventually sperging out about their laser guns.
"Yeaaah, that's interesting. But have I told you about my laaazzzzeeerr gun yet? It runs off a 50 terawatt radial combine xenocapppaaaccaatttteeerr. It's so neat. I like my laaazzzzeeeerrr gun".
Independent Thief on 23/11/2012 at 15:45
Maybe they found dilithium crystals! ;)
jay pettitt on 23/11/2012 at 16:00
My money is on cheese.
Or a piece of science journalism that references its source material. No wait, that'd be too cosmic.
Thirith on 23/11/2012 at 16:08
The remains of Wallace and Gromit.
Jason Moyer on 23/11/2012 at 16:19
Maybe they found the lost crypts of beings of light.
faetal on 23/11/2012 at 16:56
If it is anything resembling life, I'd be very curious to see how science proposes it got there. For life to have begun on earth, it seems a whole lot more than just the presence of water was required. The (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abiogenesis) processes hypothesised to have driven life on earth are various and highly complex. I'm not saying that life couldn't exist on Mars (I'm sure far finer minds than mine have already been past these considerations), but I think it would be interesting to have 2 streams of abiogenesis to unravel with potentially different sets of rules driving them. Would also be interesting to see how religious minds interpret it in the context of the machinations of deities.
jay pettitt on 23/11/2012 at 17:05
You'd have to have a good long ponder about any notion that life in the universe is a rarity.
(
http://www.npr.org/2012/11/20/165513016/big-news-from-mars-rover-scientists-mum-for-now#comment-715149070) There's a nice comment that rhymes somewhere else on the Internet.
Quote Posted by somewhere else on the Internet
I am SAM
SAM I am
Did I find DNA in sand?
Would you, could you at the Poles?
Would you, could you down some holes?
You did not find it on a rock
You did not find it when you grok
You did not find it in the water
You did not find it where you ought'r
You did not find it with my taxes
You did not find it (hold the faxes)
You did not find it here or there
You did not find it anywhere
There is no DNA to scan
(At least I think not, SAM I AM)
Yakoob on 23/11/2012 at 17:12
"Hey guys we found something REALLY AWESOME but we ain't teeeeeeeelin!' Hmph. NASA the attention whores :|
TBH, maybe I am just not into science enough, but I cant understand the excitment of "water on mars!" or "a bacteria!" I mean, it's all cool and all but... did you really think Earth was the only planet that has water, one of the most abundant compounds in, well, anywhere? Bacteria are a bit more interesting but still, it's not exactly all too unlikely some basic life-like forms would shape somewhere else; it's just a matter of time stumbling upon them.
Now, if they found more complex, semi-intelligent life forms, I could see getting excited about that. I hear the meat of space bunnies is quite the delicacy...
EDIT: Ah I totally forgot the religious angle, being agnostic myself. I can see finding a single microbe on mars being very significant if you're deeply religious believing life started/only exists on Earth.
