Stay tuned, Earthlings, you are NOT alone! LOL [news.nationalgeographic.com]
The "building blocks" for life have been discovered in 3-billion-year-old organic matter on Mars, NASA scientists announced Thursday.
Curiosity's latest data reveal that the watery lake that once filled Mars’s Gale Crater contained complex organic molecules about 3.5 billion years ago. Hints of them are still preserved in sulfur-spiked rocks derived from lake sediments. Sulfur may have helped protect the organics even when the rocks were exposed at the surface to radiation and bleach-like substances called perchlorates.
The findings were also remarkable, in that it showed that organic material can be preserved for billions of years on the harsh Martian surface. #Mars #NASA #Curiosity #MarsLander
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.I heard about this earlier today. Am I the only one that is not impressed? Seems to be quite a stretch to suggest this means life on Mars.
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I took the discovery to mean that life takes many forms in our universe, that life can begin and survive anywhere in our universe, that life on earth may have begun elsewhere; or none of the above, or options i haven't even thought of. LOL It also show again how little we really know.
@josephr I think you lept to a few conclusions there.
Sometimes I wonder about Mars similar to as supernova yet flourishing with life millions of years ago...unable to sustain itself after some cataclysmic event.
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