Early Mars 'too salty' for life

Early Mars 'too salty' for life

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The Red Planet was too salty to sustain life for much of its history, according to the latest evidence gathered by one of the US rovers on Mars' surface.

High concentration of minerals in water on early Mars would have made it inhospitable to even the toughest microbes, a leading Nasa expert says

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Here we go.

NASA are now claiming that Mars could not have sustained live due to the planet being too salty!

Life is weird and can live in weird places.

With all the recent UFO reports and Mars anomalies, could this just be the powers above trying to throw us off of the scent?

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[edit on 16/2/2008 by skibtz]

yes,me thinks nasa protest far to much!.they are dictating the terms life can and cant exist/form under based solely upon the chemical composition of earth.

is life throughout the universe solely a reflection of what elements are found on earth?,no way?

i believe nasa are corrutpted to the bone,they are hugely involved in the conspiracy to decieve the public.they have no interest in truth or space exploration, only providing a smoke screen for the black ops conquest of space and continued exploitation of the people.

What would happen if there were oceans that somehow lost much of their water? Would it leave behind a salty planet? I wonder if they've analyzed it to the point of knowing how it evolved. Seems like that would be hard to do with rovers poking around the planet. On Earth, we've been studying it for quite some time, and we're still learning about its stages of development and evolution.

Well we can only look for life as we know it no?

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NASA are quite untrustworthy: airbrushed photographs, lost originals of the moon landings and censored live broadcasts.

NASA as a public service is a joke and should not be trusted.

A shame because in an ideal world it would be a fantastic public service.

Originally posted by tomcat ha
Well we can only look for life as we know it no?

Absolutely not.

We should explore with a totally open mind.

Alien worlds will probably contain alien evolution, alien anomalies and alien beings.

There is no reason whatsoever to think that we should be looking for similarities. Although I suppose that subconsciously human beings look for similarities when faced with new data/experiences.

Originally posted by lifestudent
What would happen if there were oceans that somehow lost much of their water? Would it leave behind a salty planet? I wonder if they've analyzed it to the point of knowing how it evolved. Seems like that would be hard to do with rovers poking around the planet. On Earth, we've been studying it for quite some time, and we're still learning about its stages of development and evolution.

Quite right. I think that sometimes there is an air of arrogance surrounding science and this is one of those times.

There is no way that NASA can know for sure and making public statements based on conjecture is totally misleading. Oh. That is what NASA are best at I suppose

considering how much salt is in our oceans and the fact that oceans make up most of the earth, then what would happens if all the water on our planet dried up. wouldn't it be really salty like mars is????
Their statements seem kind of rushed , and most people believe whatever programs te magnitude of NASA say.....for the most part.....i don't buy it for one sec.....
Sick of all the lies and cover ups....