Comments on: Water on Mars

By: Kathleen Siegert

Kathleen Siegert — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 16:58:47 +0000

Flying eggbeater seems to be not elementary – plane aeronauts hold a high honor for it. Besides in the cosmos of modeltoys this is the supreme subject. But I think, with adequate good nature and dedicitaion almost everybody is be up to move a whirlybird or r/c helicopter.

By: mimili

mimili — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 18:01:51 +0000

I believe in life 100% on other planets, although I do believe in god, and if God made all these planets, why did he make out of them all earth so special, please ignore my other comment, I was really tired and as much as I do believe in life on other planets, definately not mars.

By: hi

hi — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 18:00:01 +0000

cherry is ugly

By: mimili

mimili — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 12:42:05 +0000

Hi!
Everybody has to know that there will be no planete like our planete, The Eeath!!
Everything is made perfectly:-) You know that if we were closer to the sun we would have been able to burn and if we were farther we would have been able to freeze. The oxygen is also at the perfect level that we can breath.
GOD is the creator of everything and if you believe in his son JESUS you will have eternel life.(in the bible John 3.16).

By: Hawking is an atheist « Why Evolution Is True

Hawking is an atheist « Why Evolution Is True — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 19:12:27 +0000

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By: AI

AI — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 17:46:13 +0000

Please, seasonal changes in hillside patterns =/= water.

This is would be entirely unconvincing even if the patterns actually resembled ones caused by flowing water but they clearly don’t. Its probably some dark rock material released due to erosion and deposited on brighter dust (or the other way around dust over rock material). The changes can be simply due to seasonal winds blowing the dust in/out.

By: Gadiel Tavarez

Gadiel Tavarez — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 15:30:07 +0000

Phil, this post is showing unformatted in google reader.

By: Cory Gross

Cory Gross — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 13:36:41 +0000

@4, panini,

Yeah, but who wants to spend two years in coach? A flight to Japan nearly killed me.

By: panini

panini — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 06:53:40 +0000

And to think that a manned mission could perform all the necessary analyses in what, one day?

By: Mike Franklin

Mike Franklin — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 04:00:36 +0000

I don’t buy it. There’s no reason to think that water exists anywhere else in the universe. All this stuff is just another attempt by the tin foil hatters to invent Martians.

Where’s Shermer when you need him…

By: Low Math, Meekly Interacting

Low Math, Meekly Interacting — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 00:21:55 +0000

I feel a bit cautious myself after the “arsenate-based life” thing.

Still, those dark streaks have to be due to something, something we obviously don’t fully understand, and are therefore intrinsically interesting regardless of their ultimate explanation.

I’m not sure how impressed by life on Mars I’ll be, even if found. Really depends. Bacteria of some sort might just have been stowaways on Earthly ejecta. It would certainly be more intriguing if life actually travelled the other way. Both would be remarkable discoveries. But they wouldn’t be nearly as momentous as conclusive evidence of the independent emergence of life on another planet.

By: Ellipsis

Ellipsis — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 22:52:17 +0000

Anything with any tenuous connection to “life on other planets” runs the risk that everyone wants it to exist and is looking very hard; consequently, skepticism is always warranted.

Exactly — I have not been impressed with NASA’s complete lack of attempts to remain scientifically unbiased with regard to results of new studies in this area. (And I still remember NASA’s supposed discovery of “microbial life on Mars” approximately 10 years ago.)