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Anonymous No. 16299203

Was there/is there life on Mars?

Anonymous No. 16299236

There will be within two hundred years, when beautiful Americans, Europeans, and East Asians colonise our red cousin planet.

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Anonymous No. 16299453

>>16299203
Its just a bunch of rocks but we are unable to visit any actual interesting place in the universe, so we cope diging for some shitty remains of anything at all.

Anonymous No. 16299500

>let's colonize a dead planet
Chances are we came from Mars long time ago. Maybe someone will find a planet full of BIPOC. White "people" colonize places of bipoc in no time.

Anonymous No. 16299505

someone post the rover pic of that spider thingy. I don't have it saved

Anonymous No. 16300181

>>16299203
What are the odds of life emerging on Earth?

Astronomically low, so no there was no life on Mars.

Anonymous No. 16300205

>>16299203
If this question slows down colonization by even one day I'll make sure that any Martian life discovered is destroyed

Anonymous No. 16300411

>>16299203
>Was there
Maybe, depends on how long it kept its oceans
>is there life on Mars?
Probably not, while Mars' methane having a biotic origin hasn't been ruled out there are competing geochemical explanations

Anonymous No. 16300514

>>16299203
That's where the dwarves went, bro.

Anonymous No. 16301420

Back to the beginnining where there is no end here

Anonymous No. 16301702

>>16299203
Obviously we don't know for sure. There has been mounting circumstantial evidence that hints towards past and possibly present microbial life on Mars (which would have been admitted as fossils for instance if found on Earth), but our information is still limited. Without man himself being there on site with his industry combing the surface and subsurface (and hoping nothing gets contaminated) we are limited to using hair combs on the surface.

Anonymous No. 16301992

>>16301702
This is actually one of the few instances where a manned mission can do what robots can't.

Anonymous No. 16302042

If you put a few microbes on Mars, how long until it naturally terraforms?

Anonymous No. 16302123

>>16302042
That's a big open ended question. Which microbes and how earth like?
A few bacteria aren't going to warm up mars all that much for one.

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Anonymous No. 16302253

There was life on Mars when it (and the Earth) was within Proto-Saturn's plasma sheath.

Anonymous No. 16302277

>>16302253
>>>/x/

Anonymous No. 16302346

>>16302277
>t. believes in creatio ex nihilo, magic objects with infinite density, invisible matter and energy that eludes 80 years of search but is really there!, literal space and time dilation, etc.
>y-you're the /x/tard!

Anonymous No. 16302413

>>16302253
schizophrenia

Anonymous No. 16302419

>>16299203
No

Anonymous No. 16302565

>>16299203
Yes. Also Venus.
He'll I'd bet on Europa too.

We basically have all the chemical evidence we need for both Martian and Venusian life existing/ having existed.
We also have rock samples from Mars that appear to show fossilised microbes and such, that was in the news just some days ago.
Of course the entire scientific community (correctly) still claims there's no proof of life, since technically it could technically be something else unless we study it properly in Earth.

I think as soon as we can get those Martian samples to Earth, or collect Venusian samples, we'll be able to confirm it in a matter of weeks/ months.
That said I think we're looking at many long years before a mission to return those samples.

At this point to my mind it's a settled question.
The real thing we need to consider and prepare for is whether it's a panspermia, with life transferred between worlds
- or whether we have multiple entirely independent cases of life originating.

Anonymous No. 16302586

>>16302123
If you put the LUCA or something close to it in the Martian ice cap. How long before Mars is covered in forests and animals

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Anonymous No. 16302634

>>16302346
>magic
You're just telling on yourself here

>>16302565
>Also Venus.
Trace amounts of phoshpine is incredibly circumstantial at best.
>>16302586
Problem is LUCA was likely thermophile. But even assuming that it could live on mars as is you're gonna be waiting a long while.

Anonymous No. 16302760

>>16299203
Yes, but we fucked it up and then ran to earth to repeat it all over again.

Anonymous No. 16302762

>>16302253
this is excellent science. where can i learn more about this?

Anonymous No. 16303431

>>16302419
this is the most likely answer

Anonymous No. 16305081

>>16299203
If there is, it would be in a deep underground aquifer that's a closed loop system.

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Anonymous No. 16305092

>>16299236
>beautiful
>East Asians

Anonymous No. 16305229

>>16305081
well yeah, where else could it be?

Anonymous No. 16306155

Venusbros… we are so back

Anonymous No. 16306293

>>16301702
>Without man himself being there on site
>Without crew* themself*
Fix'ed :)

Anonymous No. 16306296

We don't have enough evidence either way, but it's possible there was (or even is). I don't personally think that that's the likely answer, but it's possible.

Anonymous No. 16306299

>>16300181
Doesn't seem that way. Life developed on Earth rather early on in the planet's history. It took about 700 million years or so by our best estimates for life to appear on Earth. That was 3.7 billion years ago. Mars, on the other hand, has been technically speaking uninhabitable for about 3.6 billion years.

Chances are good that Mars had life on it as well. It just didn't have the give or take 3 billion years it took Earth life to go from unicellular to multicellular. All life on Mars was single celled organisms. Everything else is cope.

Anonymous No. 16306301

Mars isn't a planet. It has no plants. Mars is an Iret, a ice inhibitor.

Fagpots with less than 300 IQ should not be allowed on sci ok?

Anonymous No. 16306327

>>16302634
>Trace amounts of phoshpine is incredibly circumstantial at best.
You forgot about the unexplained bacteria-shaped particulates detected in the upper atmosphere by the Venera probes.

Anonymous No. 16306348

>>16306327
Those are obviously iron crystals
Investigate no further

Anonymous No. 16306360

>>16299203
>already has the X branding
How can he keep getting away with it??

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>>16299203

Anonymous No. 16307108

>>16306327
>unexplained bacteria-shaped particulates
sauce?

Anonymous No. 16307348

>>16302277
"electric" anything belongs to /x/.

Anonymous No. 16307697

>>16299203
There's probably bacteria still alive today in underground lakes, but I doubt there are complex lifeforms.

Anonymous No. 16309129

>>16307348
Even Griffiths?

Anonymous No. 16309133

Yes, but not complex life. Nothing more complicated than multicellular amoeba