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As neat as this all is, the bottom line is the same as it was back in 1996: we won't prove a damn thing until we discover this sort of thing *on Mars*.
Get. Your. Ass. To Mahs.
(I don't want to go to Saturn-- I said Mahs!)Reply
I knew I shouldn't have peed on Mars when I was coming to Earth. But, hey, stupid engineers don't make decent bathrooms in spaceships, you know, and when you gotta go, you gotta go.Reply
So this meteorite was found in Antarctica with Earth like bacteria. How do we know the bacteria simply didn't come from Earth itself and some how got onto the mertorite?Reply
@Rusty626: I'm no scientist, but I believe, that when the Viking landers tested those soil samples, they also tested the exact composition of the sample. And the tests on the meteorite matched that of the Viking tests.
But I welcome anybody here to elaborate further/correct me.Reply
One day a scientist is going to get stoned and lick one of those mars meteorites, the bacteria in his mouth will interact with the dormant bacteria in the meteorite and some time not long after Will Smith will be walking down a street alone.Reply
@Jassen: or the zombie plague will really happen and we won't be sick of all these krappy zombie films cause it will become reality thanks to some martian spooges.Reply
@Brian Fowler: Maybe in the last administration that would have really worked but you need something different for this one. I would go with some new kind of renewable energy that is ultra cheap to produce. Or that the planet definitely has life on it and that life is a terrorist.Reply
Oh great, there go our terraforming plans. Now the Greens..I mean Reds...will sue to stop every mission. Freakin' longhairs love alien bacteria more than people.Reply
@gorehound: All right, sweethearts, what are you waiting for? Breakfast in bed? Another glorious day in watching Aliens! A day in watching Aliens is like a day on the farm. Every meal's a banquet! Every line a masterpeice! Every formation a parade! I LOVE Aliens!Reply
And this was also placed to test us from God? Just like how Heaven is in the sky? Jesus is a jew, making god actually a jew god.
I don't like religion.Reply
@Slinkytech: No no no, you have it all wrong, Tim Allen played a host of a tool show, on a family oriented sitcom...it was a show within a show, see? I hope that clears everything up.Reply
@LittleDragon: Alien life: good. Alien fossils: bad. God could have made alien life 6000 years ago while he was tinkering with putting schlongs and boobies on clay apes, but only a special plan-ahead kind of Devil could think to put fossils in the ground on another planet.Reply
@secretmission: You can see it already... next week's first-page story on one of those tabloids: "Footprint discovered on Mars reveals Bigfoot's origin"Reply
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