New findings point to an Earth-like environment on ancient Mars
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New findings point to an Earth-like environment on ancient Mars
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Re: New findings point to an Earth-like environment on ancient Mars
#2yay, likelihood that we are martians just went up a few basis points
Re: New findings point to an Earth-like environment on ancient Mars
#3yay, likelihood that we are martians just went up a few basis points
Well, that was H. Beam Piper's premise in his "Terro Human Future" and "Paratime" stories --- see the wonderful novella "Omnilingual" and see the story "Genesis":
Re: New findings point to an Earth-like environment on ancient Mars
#4Why don’t we just drill into mars and look for fossils? Easy peasy.
Re: New findings point to an Earth-like environment on ancient Mars
#5Why don’t we just drill into mars and look for fossils? Easy peasy.
Mars is big, fossils are small.
Re: New findings point to an Earth-like environment on ancient Mars
#6*Barsoom
Re: New findings point to an Earth-like environment on ancient Mars
#7Why don’t we just drill into mars and look for fossils? Easy peasy.
Mars is big, fossils are small.
There are areas on earth where fossils are abundantly available at the surface. If there was macroscopic life on Mars at some point, there's likely to be some rocky outcrops with them.
Layered sedimentary rocks like the ones pictured in https://www.kqed.org/science/24828/nasas-curiosity-rover-fin... are probably good candiates.
Re: New findings point to an Earth-like environment on ancient Mars
#8yay, likelihood that we are martians just went up a few basis points
Or, why aren't Martians from Earth.
As much as I like the idea conceptually for movies. That life on Earth came from Mars still doesn't explain how life started on Mars. It just moves the location, the mechanism is still tbd.
Re: New findings point to an Earth-like environment on ancient Mars
#9Maybe we are about to discover that we came to Earth after messing up Mars.
Re: New findings point to an Earth-like environment on ancient Mars
#10Link not working for anyone else?