Comments on: Is There Really Life on Mars?

By: alan

alan — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 07:47:27 +0000

no life on mars because how can a ufo fly 250 million miles to earth?

By: gie ann

gie ann — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 06:03:07 +0000

is there any more info u cant put about mars

By: Charlie (Colorado)

Charlie (Colorado) — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 21:24:58 +0000

Jeez, folks, this is a completely non-political article. Give it a rest, would’ja?

By: Cybergeezer

Cybergeezer — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 15:38:02 +0000

And, oh; This just in from “His Emptiness”: another term for economic justice: “common purpose”. BOHICA

By: Cybergeezer

Cybergeezer — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 15:34:43 +0000

There’s a lot of methane production in Congress, but not much life support. I think these projects should stay covert for four years, and out of public eye, so as not to become victims of the funding cuts that are coming from “His Emptiness” and his administration.

By: Ian Thorpe

Ian Thorpe — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 19:56:57 +0000

There’s life Jim, but not as we know it.

By: Chip

Chip — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 17:10:26 +0000

Horace,

You progressives should probably skip re-education this time and move straight to death camps. We’re just not worth the effort.

By: Rob

Rob — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 16:41:08 +0000

Life on other places? who really cares. its worthless to consider. why do you meatheaded journalists even waste time to write about it. The point is you and NASA and everyone else will never ever do anything with it even if you could muster up any facts about the question. That crap about giai existing there is childlish garbage is just a bunch of the same worthless noises.

By: John Link

John Link — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 05:18:33 +0000

It’s a shame to a see this thread hijacked by morons.

Science, Mr. Horace Wells, is inherently “conservative”, in the sense that it does not multiply hypotheses unnecessarily. You conflate political conservativism, sir, with…some other idiosyncratic standard, known only to you. I suggest you cut your pony tail, remove yourself from your garbage-strewn cubicle, and release yourself from your bigotries.

Snide comments about “Saddam’s plots” mark you as a person who lacks the intellectual wherewithal to make an intellectural argument. This thread is about Mars.

As for conservative voters being less educated: say what? you think lower class urban dwellers voted for McCain?

Face it, Horace: deep down, you’re shallow.

As to the issue here: Once again, as we have been ever since we started landing probes on Mars, we are faced with inferences and not evidence.

Methane exists in the atmospheres of Earth, Jupiter, Saturn and on some moons, so its presence on Mars, absent other signs of organic matter, is hardly dispositive. saying “It’s gotta be” due to life is not a scientific finding; it’s every bit as lame as Creationists saying life is so complex “It’s gotta be” due to divine intervention.

By: Boogey_Man

Boogey_Man — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 00:19:43 +0000

More importantly, will the microbes that may/may not be on Mars pose any hazard to Earths biosphere? Finding single celled life on the red planet would be cool but it could be a terrible road block to settling the place.