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Originally posted by Darkblade71
Here is an old thread I had started on possible trees on Mars, Check it out, some great pictures, that as of yet, have not been fully addressed. I am still hoping that we get new photos of this region of Mars.
Check it out!
Originally posted by TheBorg
Now, you cannot tell me that that "rock" there was formed by any known natural formation process. Should anyone be able to explain how such a thing could have come about, I'd be VERY anxious to hear what it is.
TheBorg
Originally posted by Darkblade71
Here is an old thread I had started on possible trees on Mars, Check it out, some great pictures, that as of yet, have not been fully addressed. I am still hoping that we get new photos of this region of Mars.
www.abovetopsecret.com...
Check it out!
Originally posted by undo
What is this, Zorg? A fossil of a crinoid, you say?
Is that circular raised area formed by the fossil or
testing equipment used on the area?
Originally posted by TheBorg
You got some people to message? If ya got too many, just ship some over here, and I'll get em for ya. U2U or email me. We can even open a dialogue thread for the responses we receive from them. Just a thought, of course.
TheBorg
Originally posted by zorgon
You just have to be unafraid to write government officials. It does however open a can of worms... you would be surprised at how these letters bounce through departments
Originally posted by Xtal_Phusion
I have no idea what you think you're seeing other than the jerky motion that from having too few frames recording too much time. Remember the nanny cam cases where people were charged with shaking/dropping infants? The Rover didn't fly there by itself and the platform it rolled off of has a camera on it. THIS is what took pics of the Rover. These rocks look no more like animals than clouds in the sky do on a lazy summer's day. Seriously, this is silly. As an astrobiologist, I would be the first one celebrating if life is discovered on Mars but so far, I have not seen anything to indicate it exists there now. However, there IS evidence of liquid water present periodically on the surface and it is possible that even larger amounts lie beneath the surface. Hope remains and it is still worth investigating further but we can't break out the champagne just yet, guys.
Originally posted by Xtal_Phusion
As an astrobiologist, I would be the first one celebrating if life is discovered on Mars but so far, I have not seen anything to indicate it exists there now. However, there IS evidence of liquid water present periodically on the surface and it is possible that even larger amounts lie beneath the surface. Hope remains and it is still worth investigating further but we can't break out the champagne just yet, guys.
In 1993, Baross and UW colleague Jody Deming published a paper entitled "Deep-sea smokers: The paper states that superthermophilic microorganisms inhabit pressurized environments beneath deep-sea hydrothermal vents. These super-organisms not only exist, but thrive at temperatures up to and possibly beyond 150o Centigrade (more than 300o Fahrenheit), setting a new limit at which life can exist.
After Baross and Deming published their paper, John Parkes discovered bacteria in a marine sediment core that substantiated the idea of superthermophilic organisms. While working with the NSF-funded Ocean Drilling Project, Parkes, of the United Kingdom's University of Bristol, discovered bacteria that lives at a temperature of 169o Centigrade.
"We believe that the study of extreme environments on Earth and the life they support," says Mike Purdy, coordinator of the new NSF initiative, "is the most effective way of understanding how and where life may exist on other planets and what the limits of life might be on our own."
Research supported by LexEn is expected to lead to the discovery of a diverse group of microorganisms, the lifestyles and biology of which can now only be guessed, Purdy adds.