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Are Those Spidery Black Things On Mars Dangerous?
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#63Earlier quoted context omitted.
How would those plants have gotten onto the surface Mars?
How did they get here?
They evolved.
For plants to be on Mars, either A) the immeasurably chaotic process of evolution yielded carbon-based, cellular, stationary, metabolizing, photosynthetic, reproductive things on two planets with vastly different geological and climatic histories, or B) Earth-borne plant material, which has evolved to the point that it can only produce a viable organism in certain rather specific environmental niches on its home planet, has somehow reached a foreign planet and developed into a more-or-less thriving colony of vegetation upon it.
Neither of those seems terribly likely.
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#64It feels weird to realize that according to Mars, we're the aliens invading the planet. Makes me wonder about all the extraterrestrial "rovers" on our planet.
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#65A good image of the formations is on Wikipedia: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0c/PIA11858_...
That looks so much like mold.
It really does. However, one should keep in mind that humans have overzealous pattern-matching engines. We are really good at erroneously seeing things that we recognize.
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#66A good image of the formations is on Wikipedia: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0c/PIA11858_...
It seems like we'd be able to tell if they are geysers or something else by having a few frames of photos? A geyser would be moving in some way you'd think?
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#67Without a scale those images are largely useless.
I'm glad I'm not the anyone who noticed this. I don't know if those are just a few millimeters or several meters.
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#68Crazy, looks like vegetation from 200 miles up but if the theory regarding CO2 is correct that is pretty crazy!
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#69The top comment here and on reddit is the same!! Either kaax is martian, or just a plagiarist. Here's the link: http://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/10vrag/are_those_sp...
It is a spammer that takes HN comments and reposts them at Reddit. Someone should report that behaviour at http://www.reddit.com/r/reportthespammers
I checked that guy's profile, he's not a spammer, just a karma whore.
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#70Earlier quoted context omitted.
That looks so much like mold.
It really does. However, one should keep in mind that humans have overzealous pattern-matching engines. We are really good at erroneously seeing things that we recognize.
And when it comes to Martian geography, we are hopelessly bad at judging scale. It's very easy to be several orders of magnitude off without a guide or legend.