 Nasa Found Life On Mars But Killed It! |
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  Jan 10 2007, 07:29 AM
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I just found in CNN and thought of writing this post.
QUOTE A scientist is theorizing that the Two NASA space probes that landed on Mars, the red planet, 30 years ago and may have found alien microbes on the Red Planet and inadvertently killed them! Since they were looking for the wrong kind of life the Viking space probes of 1976-77 ,so they didn’t recognize it, a geology professor at Washington State University said. Based on research that where life can take root, it may prompt NASA to search for a different type of Martian life when its next spacecraft to visit Mars will be launched later this year, one of the space agency’s top scientists said. In the 1970s, the Viking mission found no signs of life.But the microbe was looking for Earth-like life, in which salt water is the internal liquid of living cells. The experiments of the Viking which took place in 1970s wouldn’t have noticed hydrogen peroxide-based life and, in fact, would have killed it by drowning and overheating the microbes, said Schulze-Makuch. It is also said that one Viking experiment seeking life on Mars poured some water on land of mars. That would have essentially drowned hydrogen peroxide-based life, he said. And different experiment heated the soil to see if something would happen which would have baked Martian microbes. |
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Jan 10 2007, 09:01 AM
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Trap Grand Marshal Member Group: [HOSTED] Posts: 1,140 Joined: 19-May 05 From: Mexico Member No.: 7,234 |
What if Nasa brings some samples of those microbes and then they turn out to be some type of virus that ends up being lethat to humans? That would be really messed up
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Jan 10 2007, 11:46 AM
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I'm back... well, sort of. Group: [HOSTED] Posts: 697 Joined: 26-December 05 From: somewhere in the middle of nowhere Member No.: 16,226  |
well, if it's found on one area, it could also be found in other areas. so i don't necessarily think they killed all the specimen. they killed some in the area, but if that organism has been thriving in there for years, then most probably they've already multiplied, enough for it to have a colony or something.
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Jan 10 2007, 01:34 PM
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QUOTE(techlive @ Jan 10 2007, 03:29 PM)  I just found in CNN and thought of writing this post. A scientist is theorizing that the Two NASA space probes that landed on Mars, the red planet, 30 years ago and may have found alien microbes on the Red Planet and inadvertently killed them! Since they were looking for the wrong kind of life the Viking space probes of 1976-77 ,so they didn’t recognize it, a geology professor at Washington State University said. Based on research that where life can take root, it may prompt NASA to search for a different type of Martian life when its next spacecraft to visit Mars will be launched later this year, one of the space agency’s top scientists said. In the 1970s, the Viking mission found no signs of life.But the microbe was looking for Earth-like life, in which salt water is the internal liquid of living cells. The experiments of the Viking which took place in 1970s wouldn’t have noticed hydrogen peroxide-based life and, in fact, would have killed it by drowning and overheating the microbes, said Schulze-Makuch. It is also said that one Viking experiment seeking life on Mars poured some water on land of mars. That would have essentially drowned hydrogen peroxide-based life, he said. And different experiment heated the soil to see if something would happen which would have baked Martian microbes. =D i wonder what it is, what it does and how does it looks like! QUOTE(FLaKes @ Jan 10 2007, 05:01 PM) What if Nasa brings some samples of those microbes and then they turn out to be some type of virus that ends up being lethat to humans? That would be really messed up  I would like to see them but...your right, that's very dangerous...
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Jan 10 2007, 03:25 PM
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Premium Member Group: Members Posts: 196 Joined: 25-October 06 Member No.: 32,173 |
well...that sucks if they killed the organisms by accident, but they didn't know...cant exactly blame them..at least now they know, and they can conduct more relevant tests that won't harm the potential types of organisms on mars =D
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 Jan 10 2007, 04:59 PM
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Privileged Member Group: [HOSTED] Posts: 504 Joined: 15-August 06 From: Philippines Member No.: 28,387 myCENT:79.51 |
Well, there are a few quotes that come to mind:
Experience is the best teacher but she gives the test first before the lesson. Failures are the foundation of success. Everything happens for a reason. Oookay, so maybe the last one wasn't called for. Science has always been full of blunders like that, mostly stemming from not knowing what we will know in the near future. Back when carbon-dating was still relatively new and known to a limited number of people, a professor was once asked if a skull fossil he had was varnished or not. Licking its surface, he mused on the taste and, afterwards, commented it was not. What he inadvertently did was deposit thousands of genetic material on the fossil, making any carbon dating and genetic testing on it practically fouled up. It was the same with the dodos. They were extincted on the island of Mauritius simply because we can kill them. Heck, it doesn't even make a nice meal for the sailors; they just killed them all for the fun of it. Later on, the last dodo specimen, a stuffed carcass was found, by a museum director, to be "too musty for the standards of the museum" and ordered it into the fire. A horrified (and probably more aware) personnel tried to rescue the poor dead bird from the flames but all the managed to salvage was a leg and a beak. If, indeed, life were beginning on Mars, it could very well be a long long time before they turn into a sentient, intelligent specie. For all we know, bacteria could already be beginning the process of introducing oxygen into the Martian atmosphere. That is, of course, assuming we do not meddle with their evolution process 
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Jan 10 2007, 05:14 PM
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Super Member Group: Members Posts: 225 Joined: 5-January 07 Member No.: 36,560 |
I would just leave this up to god. Like he is the one with all the secrets. I hope i get to solve the mystery in my lifetime.
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Jan 10 2007, 07:33 PM
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Privileged Member Group: [HOSTED] Posts: 650 Joined: 13-December 06 Member No.: 35,271 myCENT:18.81 |
Typical really, humans destory everything we come across.
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Jan 10 2007, 09:19 PM
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Member [Level 2] Group: Members Posts: 84 Joined: 24-November 06 Member No.: 33,967 |
If there is hydrogen-peroxide microbes on mars we could have killed them. There's still no slightest amount of evidence that there are microbes. And if we did kill them, then there's gotta be more on the planet somewhere.
It's a pointless article; doesn't tell us anything. |