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originally posted by: game over man
Well the rover doesn't have instruments to find life so it has to be about water or how the planet lost it's water. If it's a mystery that's been solved then they found conclusive evidence confirming how___________.....lol....we will wait and see.
Also that Martian movie with Matt Damon looks terrible, and I love sci-fi movies.
Preservations of Biomarkers in Mars Analog Environments
"Soil samples were collected (...) in the hyper-arid core of the Atacama in the summer of 2014. I have extracted and analyzed lipid biomarkers in these ~15 Ma old soils to understand how lipids are preserved and degraded under extreme hyper-arid conditions over geologic timescales."
Surely all these "spin-offs" are patent protected.? How much has NASA made from either selling the patent or the product.Millions,? Billions,? Trillions.?
originally posted by: Chadwickus
a reply to: Denoli
Pure and utter garbage.
NASA a Cartel? They wish! Their budget last year was .05% of the total US budget.
Pretty crappy cartel.
And here you can find a pretty comprehensive run down of the things NASA has provided "the average jo"...
spinoff.nasa.gov...
originally posted by: ArMaP
It looks like Lujendra Ojha has been studying those dark lines that look like liquid flows, so it could be related to that.
originally posted by: glend
Perhaps they have found remnants of a past advanced civilization which would be awesome.
originally posted by: skyblueworld
originally posted by: glend
Perhaps they have found remnants of a past advanced civilization which would be awesome.
Whilst I have a belief that Mars once homed a civilization, I very much doubt NASA would admit that because the implications are too sensitive at this present time in history.
Game changer.