NASA to declare life on Mars tomorrow?

[Iron Woode]

Originally posted by: ironwing

Originally posted by: mb
Fool me once, shame on you.... fool me, you can't get fooled again

We have no candy bars here, just energy bars 'cause we're the healthy generation!

Edit: I innocently googled "Mars bar" to see if they really had changed from a candy bar to an energy bar. Anyway check out the snopes link (about the 8th hit down). WTF??? This is a family google fer Pete's sake.

Google search on "Mars bar"

the Mars bar in Canada is completely different from the one in the US. Our Mars bar is really a Milky Way.

 

[IronWing]

Originally posted by: Iron Woode

Originally posted by: ironwing

Originally posted by: mb
Fool me once, shame on you.... fool me, you can't get fooled again

We have no candy bars here, just energy bars 'cause we're the healthy generation!

Edit: I innocently googled "Mars bar" to see if they really had changed from a candy bar to an energy bar. Anyway check out the snopes link (about the 8th hit down). WTF??? This is a family google fer Pete's sake.

Google search on "Mars bar"

the Mars bar in Canada is completely different from the one in the US. Our Mars bar is really a Milky Way.

Yeah, my mother-in-law is from England so I get a "real" Mars bar every Christmas. Mars stopped selling the Mars bar in the US, now it is the Snickers Almond.

 

[RU482]

keyword...tomorrow

 

[Knight7]

werent the transformers in mars already?, and eddy murphy?

 

[mb]

Aww man wth I didn't get any credit for my photoshop on DT???? http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=13948

 

[Fritzo]

Originally posted by: SunnyD
NASA to declare zombie Martians with guns on Mars tomorrow.

NASA to declare zombie Martians with guns spreading herpes tomorrow.

 

[NFS4]

Originally posted by: mb
Aww man wth I didn't get any credit for my photoshop on DT???? http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=13948

That's your photoshop? What's your real name so I can cite it. I thought it was just some random google image search find.

 

[Spineshank]

Im pretty sure the Sun in the UK is a normal newspaper.

 

[Jeff7]

Originally posted by: Spineshank
Im pretty sure the Sun in the UK is a normal newspaper.

UFO hits wind turbine


And no, they won't be declaring life. The presence of methane might be evidence, but that's it. They've yet to find any life of any sort on Mars.

 

[AkumaX]

John F. Kennedy to convert to Scientology post-humously?

 

[GasX]

Returning soon to a club near you

 

[FelixDeCat]

David Bowie was the man who fell to Earth. Did he fall from Mars?

 

[dmcowen674]

Is there anyone here that believes in Science actually thought only life is on Earth?

 

[DisgruntledVirus]

Originally posted by: Fritzo

Originally posted by: SunnyD
NASA to declare zombie Martians with guns on Mars tomorrow.

NASA to declare zombie Martians with guns spreading herpes tomorrow.

Ah now we know where dNor came from

 

[AstroManLuca]

Um, methane is present on several moons and planets in the solar system. Saturn's moon Titan has a methane atmosphere, but there's (probably) no life there. Neptune's moon Triton has frozen methane on its surface, but it's so cold that it's unlikely to be able to support life (at least as we know it).

 

[Gibsons]

Well, NASA does have a "Mars Science Update" scheduled for 2pm EST today. Text

 

[dennilfloss]

Isn't there some isotopic fractionation difference between biogenic and nonbiogenic methane that they could use to check for sure?

Edit: looks like they thought of this.

http://www.astrobio.net/news/m...thread&order=0&thold=0

 

[miketheidiot]

Originally posted by: Jeff7
Hah, they fail at their "facts" about Mars.

EARTH is 93million miles away from the sun, 135million miles closer than Mars.

Nope. Earth is about 50 million miles* from the Sun. 135 million miles is around


And please...

MARS does outdo us when it comes to satellites. It has two against our one ? the moon.

The moons are somewhere around 6 miles and 11 miles wide. Oh wow.



The Sun...what next, is Spirit going to snap pictures of Batboy?


*- stupid mistake on my part, the correct stuff follows. And The Sun's info is still incorrect.

um, the earth IS 93 million miles from the sun...

 

[Miramonti]

This is a great time for Obama to start talking about a universalized health care system, 'nationalized' just doesn't cut it anymore.

 

[mb]

Originally posted by: NFS4

Originally posted by: mb
Aww man wth I didn't get any credit for my photoshop on DT???? http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=13948

That's your photoshop? What's your real name so I can cite it. I thought it was just some random google image search find.

Just my username is ok, thanks

'twas a simple shop. Just used two pics http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/imag...terOnMars2_gcc_big.jpg and http://www.wackypackages.org/s.../realproducts/life.jpg

I was going to put it on my bbzzdd account but I always forget my password and didn't feel like resetting it again.

 

[SunnyD]

Originally posted by: DisgruntledVirus

Originally posted by: Fritzo

Originally posted by: SunnyD
NASA to declare zombie Martians with guns on Mars tomorrow.

NASA to declare zombie Martians with guns spreading herpes tomorrow.

Ah now we know where dNor came from

Poor dNor... can't even defend himself anymore. At least he has his McRibs.

 

[Ramma2]

Mars has methane. Snore.

 

[Jeff7]

Update

A team of NASA and university scientists has achieved the first definitive detection of methane in the atmosphere of Mars. This discovery indicates the planet is either biologically or geologically active.

Astrobiologists are interested in these data because organisms release much of Earth's methane as they digest nutrients. However, other purely geological processes, like oxidation of iron, also release methane.

And why is Mars red? Iron oxide. Lots of it.



I'm just pissed off that I likely won't live long enough to see a good probe visit Europa.
I also don't like that the Prometheus Project was canceled. That could have sent a fission-powered probe to Jupiter. The RTEGs on Cassini generate just a few hundred watts each, and it has three of them, which required a lot of plutonium. (A lot is relative to the world's total production of it, not the mass.) And once the plutonium is produced, it starts decaying; it can't be turned off.
A fission reactor would have the ability to be regulated, and it would also produce a lot of power, potentially allowing a probe to have many kilowatts available to it, rather than just hundreds of watts. This would have given a probe the ability to to scan Europa with some very strong radar instrumentation, or other devices to peer beneath the crust of ice, as well as a powerful antenna in order to send back lots of data. I'm especially interested by the coloration of the cracks - maybe the color comes from some organic chemicals being exposed to ultraviolet and other radiations present at Jupiter.

 

[mizzou]

yep, go to nasa's main page, pretty fucking awesome IMO

 

[spidey07]

Originally posted by: Ramma2
Mars has methane. Snore.

Life can live/feed on methane alone. This is pretty big. Not to sidetrack but some of the discoveries on the gas giant's moons are pretty amazing as well.