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If any of this comes even close to panning out, we are on the cusp of something of paradigm crushing proportions.

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evidentialist 8 Jan 4
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Since this was from 2015, guessing it has not panned out. In fact it quickly was more or less dismissed: [astrobio.net]

No, it's an ongoing investigation. There can be no yes or no statement until such time as we have a sample to properly study. In the meantime, it's in the air. What prompted me to post this here was some commentary coming out of NASA this morning.

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We are still seeking, but finding life on another planet/moon that is not based on our form of DNA would finally answer a long abiding question. "One" place with life can happen, if it is an extremely rare event, & would be a dang shame. When a second is found, that actually opens the floodgates, as "two" is actually less likely than just one in this scenario & more than likely means that there are more, possibly many more. That first extra one will be the doozy, tho, & it surely doesn't need to be intelligent life found to open up whole new vistas.

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I think it would be more surprising to find we were the only planet in the solar system with life.

I agree, panspermia and extremophiles on Earth would indicate thatvthere's likely microbial life hiding out all over the Solar System. Alas, sample return missions are likely going to be needed to confirm this.

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pretty cool. I wonder how you prepare for a job like that?The researcher seems very conservative in her evaluation of the potential of her observations

@btroje -- It's called doing science. The evidence is quite strong, but until someone is there with a rock hammer and a proper lab, or we get a decent sample return mission successfully completed, there is just no way to say definitively what we see in those pictures really are.

@evidentialist The probe sent to the surface contained it's own labortory. You don;t think they went all that way just to take pictures. [mars.nasa.gov]

@Savage -- the onboard laboratory is not designed to deal with fossilized samples of microbial life.

@Savage thats pretty fancy

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No direct evidence has yet been found to support any life on Mars theory, though they have been looking, but for microbail fossils or more likely things such as methane traces or other hints at life. Though, if any actual life is found, it is expected to be microbial

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