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Originally posted by Murcielago
oh, BTW, the Black square area, isn't "blacked-out" it just means they havn't taken a picture there, satellites get there high detailed images by taking a BUNCH of small close-up images, and then Nasa gets the pain staking task of making a mosiac of it (aka: puting the the images together in their correct location).
Originally posted by TeH PwNeR
i mean they did find microbes on mars, but no life.
Originally posted by mayatlantean 1
with that being said there is a high possibility that the mars earth connection is actually true. but in what way? this is the fun part.
Originally posted by StellarX
Yes they did and you really need to actually make a argument against what is known if you want to continue telling people something that is not accurate. Our best information indicates current life on Mars.
Another Viking experiment, a gas chromatograph mass-spectrometer (GCMS), built to identify organic molecules on Mars, found none to analyze.
That find threw the LR results into question. A default position adopted by a majority of scientists was that no life was present at the Viking sites. What the LR device yielded, said many of those assessing the Viking data, was a false positive result.
Cause of the result, and still widely held: A chemical practical joker is in the soil, some sort of oxidant that fooled the LR experiment.
Over the years, that verdict has been touted by many as the most likely rationale for the LR results. Moreover, that oxidant is nasty to life. It destroys organic materials, causing the surface of Mars to be a sterile, lifeless domain. Therefore, no wonder the GCMS found Mars absent of organic materials.
This tidy explanation has served well to derail talk that the Viking Landers detected life.
Originally posted by Stari
I don't think they are taking little images and pasteing them together with the rovers. It would make no sense to get images only to leave the center of the image out. Does it?
Originally posted by cmdrkeenkid
Well, from the very same link you provided I read this...
Maybe Mars even has life today. The evidence sent back from Mars by two Viking Landers in 1976 and 1977 was not clearcut (6). In fact, NASA's first press release about the Viking tests announced that the results were positive. The "Labelled Release" (LR) experiments had given positive results. But after lengthy discussions in which Carl Sagan participated, NASA reversed its position, mainly because another experiment detected no organics in the soil. Yet Gilbert V. Levin, the principal designer of the LR experiment, still believes the tests pointed to life on Mars (7). When the same two experiments were run on soil from Antarctica, the same conflicting results were obtained (LR - positive; organics - negative.) Soil from Antarctica definitely contains life. The test for organics was negative because it is far less sensitive than the LR experiment. The same problem could have caused the organics test on Mars to give a false negative.
www.panspermia.org...
My emphasis, of course.
Actually, it would make the most sense. For example, find a brick wall and take a picture of it. Now, zoom the camera to 20X (optical) zoom and take pictures of the same area of the wall. Now piece all of those images together. Which has more detail of the brick wall?
Either they didn't need what was in the center of the image, the data was corrupted, or the CCD was burned out.
Also, keep in mind that the rovers (as well as other probes and telescopes) are primarily scientific instruments. Sure, they take pretty fascinating images, but that isn't thier true function.[./quote]
Who cares what their true function is when they CAN ( and obviously should) take pictures that are not pointlessly and hopelessly distorted when so required by their 'oversears'.? It's OUR money ( well at least American/Russia/European) and they have not business deciding that the camera's should be 30 years out of date - 'off -the- shelf- 'crap' that can't do what every other camera and optical instrument ( even 10 inch home 'scopes' with digital camera's attached) on earth can apparently manage. I can stand that you think i'm stupid but everyone on the planet?
If they don't need data froma certain spot then they just won't waste thier time and money with it, especially when they're trying to accomplish so much with such little time and money.
It's OUR time and OUR money and they never asked us how we wanted to explore this solar system. Get off the high horse and stop defending people who need no help in wasting our time and money.
I am still waiting for a serious defense, on your part, and quoting from the sources i provide is not going to serve your agenda and is just generally insulting my intelligence since it assumes that i can not even spot contradictions in my own material.
Stellar
Actually, it would make the most sense. For example, find a brick wall and take a picture of it. Now, zoom the camera to 20X (optical) zoom and take pictures of the same area of the wall. Now piece all of those images together. Which has more detail of the brick wall?
Good excuse but it's not how the MGS camera works.
Either they didn't need what was in the center of the image, the data was corrupted, or the CCD was burned out.
No room for the possibility that they are actively trying to hide what the picture wanted to tell us?
Originally posted by Stari
Originally posted by TeH PwNeR
i mean they did find microbes on mars, but no life.
Do we know that for sure? When Mars lost it's atmosphere life could have gone underground. I personally believe that some came to Earth.
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Originally posted by StellarX
Yes they did and you really need to actually make a argument against what is known if you want to continue telling people something that is not accurate. Our best information indicates current life on Mars.
"I found that the gas release was indeed rhythmic, with a period of precisely 24.66 hours, a Martian day," Miller said. This finding, along with other painstaking assessments about LR operations, the scientist feels that a Martian circadian rhythm in the experiment may constitute a biosignature - a sign of life.
[...] The presence of a strong circadian rhythm in the LR experiment further suggests that circadian rhythmicity may be an excellent 'biosignature' of extraterrestrial life," Miller said.
www.space.com...
Originally posted by Apass
Well...to be honest...I don't think the circadian rhythm is a sign of life...and let's imagine a simple experiment for that.
Originally posted by jra
Well then tell us how it works. Don´t just say 'thats not how it works', one might think you don't know at all either. And last I checked, that´s how all satellite imaging systems work.
They photograph the planet in parts and put the images together.
Unfortunately I´m not at home right now or i´d go look in worldwind for an example, but when looking at Mars in that program, there are tons of areas, big and small that are missing some high res images. I doubt very much that it has to do with censoring.
I guess it could be, but why do it so blatantly? I thought NASA always photoshoped there images (or so lots of CT's claim anyway).
The odds of it being corrupted data or just a spot that hasn't or didn't need to be imaged are much more likely than something being censored.
Think about it, if NASA wanted to hide something, the best way to do it is to not release the image. It would also be nice to see the original images shown in the first post insted of a small collage.
Originally posted by StellarX
So you just heard what a specialist in the field had to say...... [...] Can you give me the material you used to come up with said theory and the scientist that proposed it as alternative to the explanation this 'expert' came up with?
Originally posted by StellarX
Why exactly are you disagreeing and what does you example have in common with the one conducted on Mars?
Originally posted by StellarX
Keep in mind that i do not base my claims for life on Mars on this one thing alone and that there is a whole series of facts and finds that proves it.
Originally posted by TeH PwNeR
Hello everyone I would like to show you some pictures that i have collected via google.com/mars. here they are, they are of suspicious land formations.
img445.imageshack.us...
Originally posted by Jehosephat
I am getting really tired of hearing peoples results in the new Mars version of the Rorschach Inkblot Test.
Originally posted by Apass
No. Beacuse it's not what a specialist had to say, it's just what I'm saying. And what makes someone an expert?
I'm disagreeing that a strong circadian rythm is a sign of life.
And with that simple experiment anyone can do that I've presented I tink it's quite clear why.
You want a simpler experiment? Just check the temperature every hour of the 24'th of the day. It doesn't metter if you do this outside or inside...it will have a strong circadian rythm even if your air conditioning unit is on.
Well, give me some links so I can see what you are referring at. But please, not from sites like marsanomalyresearch, but some of scientific background.
Originally posted by StellarX
Well considering i am a lay person i tend to employ the opinions of those with qualifications as they can defend their points of view in technical terms which i can then learn from and employ in their defense.
Then please provide a replicable experiment on earth that would mimic the findings of the LR experiment. They have been trying for 30 years now without success but if you believe yourself able please suggest a theory where you can check for circadian rhythm without using 'twenty four glasses' ( doh).
Because it has nothing to do with circadian rhythm?
The temperate is not 'alive'.
Originally posted by StellarX
You should use the word science.... Check out that site and slowly begin to figure out that all their primary material comes from official sources with links supplied. I have posted plenty of links to relevant material on this site so feel free to do some searching. Here is a recent one i still have a link to.
www.abovetopsecret.com...
he regrets that, despite NASA and the European Space Agency statements that the search for life on Mars remains their highest priority, none of this trio of spacecraft currently voyaging to Mars contains a life detection test.
Originally posted by Apass
What do you understand by qualifications? I'm an engineer specialized in research and measurement instrumentation so I think that I can defend my point in technical terms as well.
I already provided two simple experiments that don't imply life at all...yet if you analyse the data you can find a strong circadian rythm.
For your information, circadian rythm means that the processe you're observing has a cyclic behaviour with the same period as the earth rotation (or Mars in this case), that is a daily variation...so if you measure the tempretature during a day you'll get a circadian rythm.
And like I said...a circadian rythm is not a sign of life
More specifically, says Miller, the fluctuations in gas emissions seem to be entrained to a 2 degrees C fluctuation inside the lander, which in turn reflected not-quite-total shielding from the 50 degrees C fluctuation in temperature that occurs daily on the surface of Mars. Temperature-entrained circadian rhythms, even to a mere 2-degree C fluctuation, have been observed repeatedly on earth.
As for the original concerns of the dubious chemists, who thought the same sort of signal could simply be coming from highly reactive, non-organic compounds in the soil, Miller says such a scenario would be almost impossible to imagine. "For one thing," he explains, "there has since been research that shows that superoxides exposed to an aqueous solution—like the nutrient solution in the experiment—will quickly be destroyed. And yet, the circadian rhythms from the Martian soil persisted for nine straight weeks."
"There is no reason for a purely chemical reaction to be so strongly synchronized to such a small temperature fluctuation," he adds. "We think that in conjunction with the strong indications from Mars Observer images that show water flowed on the surface in the recent past, a lot of the necessary characteristics of life are there. I think back in 1976, the Viking researchers had an excellent reason to believe they’d discovered life; I’d say it was a good 75 percent certain. Now, with this discovery, I’d say it’s over 90 percent. And I think there are a lot of biologists who would agree with me."
www.eurekalert.org...
Originally posted by Apass
No. I meant scientific as in sci·en·tif·ic: adj. Of, relating to, or employing the methodology of science.
(according to www.dictionary.com)
The links found on that thread say pretty much the same thing...that we don't know for sure if there is or isn't life on Mars.
And actualy, Mars Express had a lander (that failed on its landing) that has had an experiment for the search for life: beagle 2
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and unfortunetly for him, the MERs currently on Mars didn't find any liquid water.
Recent analyses of ESA's Mars Express data reveal that concentrations of water vapor and methane in the atmosphere of Mars significantly overlap. This result, from data obtained by the Planetary Fourier Spectrometer (PFS), gives a boost to understanding of geological and atmospheric processes on Mars, and provides important new hints to evaluate the hypothesis of present life on the Red Planet.
Here, the concentration is two to three times higher than in other regions observed. These areas of water vapor concentration also correspond to the areas where NASA's Odyssey spacecraft has observed a water ice layer a few tens of centimeters below the surface, as Dr Vittorio Formisano, PFS principal investigator, reports.
New in-depth analysis of PFS data also confirms that methane is not uniform in the atmosphere, but concentrated in some areas. The PFS team observed that the areas of highest concentration of methane overlap with the areas where water vapor and underground water ice are also concentrated. This spatial correlation between water vapor and methane seems to point to a common underground source.
www.astrobio.net...