Life on Mars?
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Fri, 04/13/2012 - 03:12
Life on Mars?
It may be true, or it may be a ploy to get more money into NASA. I'm all about space exploration so I don't really care how they get the money. Just get your asses to Mars!
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/47031923/ns/technology_and_science-science/?ocid=ansmsnbc11#.T4fdHlFumWg
They found close correlations between the Viking experiment results' complexity and those of terrestrial biological data sets. They say the high degree of order is more characteristic of biological, rather than purely physical, processes.
NASA's FY 2011 budget of $18.4 billion represents about 0.5% of the $3.4 trillion United States federal budget during the year.
That makes me sad.
Meanwhile, the TSA get 4 times that much
This makes me sad.
No, this makes me mad.
I would like to point out that we get MAJOR tech advancements from NASA on that shoe string budget... Lately though it seems they have been banging that funding war drum. I don't know about you all but I would not mind giving some of that TSA money to NASA. All the TSA does is hassle white people anyways.
What have they got to eat? Thats what i want to know. Cause if its greek food I am taking a pass thankyou!
Everyone knows Martians live on Mars.... why are we even talking about this? :lol:
I live in central Florida. The de-funding of Nasa and discontinuing the shuttle has had a devastating effect on the local economy. Thousands out of work, businesses shut down. The impact on the State and County governments will be felt next year when the fiscal budgets for those locations feel the loss of the tax base. TSA better catch a terrorist soon to make up for this...
I thought they were in the business of catching illegal bottles of water.
I thought they were all petaphiles there to legally molest little children.
actually petaphiles illegally molest animals.
and knowing is half the battle!
Zing!
I'm sure they do that too :)
It's funny that potentially one of the biggest stories ever, quickly diverted to compaining about the TSA
Well there's a LONG way to go to prove this, it's a theory based on computations, the other theory kicking around about the Viking missions was that they could have potentionally killed any life in the way analyzing samples.
This is also not the kind of life that you could hold a conversation with.
Life may have existed in our solar system at one point but we missed it by a long, long time. I don't doubt life exists out there but it's certainly not something we will ever see or meet. There's that whole speed of light problem that not only affects us but anyone else coming to "visit"
After our solar system the closest star is 2.5 light years away and unfortuantely Voyager is going in the wrong direction.
Cold hard facts are we will never, ever leave this solar system. Don't get me started on Star Trek, fun show and I dig it but their physics are laughable but they try.
The next closest star is Proxima Centuari at 4.2 light years away
Never is forever, so is not appropriate here. In terms of the actual statement about leaving the solar system, it seems highly unlikely that it will never occur and is really a fallacy argument of incredulity. I don't know what your physics background is, but there are actually quite a few physicists who do believe that space exploration (not travel) is not only possible, it is a certainty. it is simply a matter of developing a feasible mechanism for propulsion which may not happen in our lifetimes, but to say never is myopic. Couple that with some of the interesting travel theories being loosely envisioned through quantum mechanics and who knows what the future holds.
Funding our space program is a vital element, especially considering the dynamics of an Earth impact from an object..that is a matter of when it will happen vs if it will happen.
had a tsa grab my 4 year old because he felt he was to close to the exit doors. we were waiting for my sister in law to depart from the plane and he had seen her before we did and started to go to her. the guy started yelling at him and grabbed him by his arm. it got real ugly fast because the guy wasnt very fluent in english and wouldnt let go of my son.
I don't think anyone was suggesting that there was once complex life on Mars.
On the subject of life in the universe...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMIyYwq_A8E
That guy is my hero
My favorite quote of his
I don't know about anyone else, but I have "Universe in a Nutshell" in my bookcase. So I guess you could call me an expert.
I enjoy Tyson quite a bit. He is as close to Sagan as is possible right now. I hope he can make some headway in re-popularizing NASA. For me, just the evidence that life is in a specific location somewhere out there would make me extremely happy and drive my imagination enough to make up for the improbable contact with intelligent life.