Life on Mars?

You guys are busy looking at humanoid-shaped rocks and shit, but how do you miss THIS:

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It's water! A body of water!
 
Dude, we need the source of this pic; if it's legit, we deserve to know.

Not that I don't believe you - I'm a faithfull man and all - but it seems like an artificial image...
 
Another, more valid question, is it a true color photograph? Cause cameras on mars are not like our digital cameras here. They take three photos for the RGB channels, each photo in grayscale. Then they reassign color to each photo and each becomes a channel in a color photograph. Now, you can also use IR or UV photos for one of the image channels (that's how you get those nice photographs of nebulae and galaxies). You can find radar images of mars where you can see a green soil with blue 'seas'. But those are false color images....
 
Talking about life on other planets, I'm wonder why we didn't send something to Europa yet. Europa has pretty much a "LIFE HERE!!" neon sign. So we send a lot of stuff to Mars, but where are those Europa missions? Hell, we sent New Horizons to Pluto and maybe even to a nearby Kuiper Belt Object, but no Europa missions? Enceladus also seems worth investigating, there seems to be some water there. Titan is also worth investigating.

I get really sad about the fact that we spend much more money to kill each other than to explore the rest of our solar system.
 
Makenshi said:
Dude, we need the source of this pic; if it's legit, we deserve to know.

Not that I don't believe you - I'm a faithfull man and all - but it seems like an artificial image...
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The image is legit... It's not water but a blue colored dune. You can find this picture as well as others on-line via NASA's photojournal. some cool pics in there

http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/jpeg

alec said:
People, please: don't you recognize a shopped pic when you see one? :roll:
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The image above and the one from the initial thread (not the thread I started that was merged with this one) are legit. The humanoid rock formation is most likely just that, a rock formation... still cool though.

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Slaughter Manslaught said:
Talking about life on other planets, I'm wonder why we didn't send something to Europa yet. Europa has pretty much a "LIFE HERE!!" neon sign. So we send a lot of stuff to Mars, but where are those Europa missions? Hell, we sent New Horizons to Pluto and maybe even to a nearby Kuiper Belt Object, but no Europa missions? Enceladus also seems worth investigating, there seems to be some water there. Titan is also worth investigating.
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There are plans to go back to Europa soon. It most likely contains water and I think there is a fair probability that there is water in liquid form.

Slaughter Manslaught said:
I get really sad about the fact that we spend much more money to kill each other than to explore the rest of our solar system.
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...Sir... I'd like to make it known to the world that, I love you.

:)
 
JohnnyEgo said:
There are likely billions of planets that have been around for billion of years and are likely to be around for billions more.

What are the odds that the spark of life occurred in the primordial ooze only once in the span of this universe?

It would be a far more interesting and less likely thing if life outside our planet is never discovered throughout the time of man then if the precursors to life or evidence of it's existence is found on Mars.
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As strange as this may sound but the chance of intelligent life (in the way of a civilication) is realy, extremly small almost not present. It should not be confused with the possibility of life in general as even the smallest form of bakteria would be already considered a life form of course. And considering the characteristics Jupiters Moon Europa has it seems likely.

But mathematical statistics compute the possibility for aliens with high developed intelect as very small.

Allone the exact conditions needed to give a world even the slightest chance for intelligently advanced life are that small that it happens eventualy one time in every galaxy (if ever). By physical tests and research scientists discovered the likelihood of worlds with Life and the exact conditions needed for one single Planet to allow the simplest lifeforms and a chance for evolution. It is not only important if a Planet has the right distance to the sun or if water is possible on the sufrace. The whole Solar System has to support it, like the Jupiter which is doing for us a job to protect us against the bigest asteroids. Even the moon around our earth has a role cause of his gravity that helps to keep our planet in the track. And that is only the things we know about for now. There might be even more factors. A few scientists even believe the the occasional impact from a asteroid to a planet like our earth is serving some (yet not known) point like maybe giving evolution a possibilty to restart, since nature has become a lot more diversified in comparision before the asteroid hit our earth some million years ago. So if one takes all this in consideration and makes a mathematical stastic in relation to the known systems in our Galaxy the chance for another planet to have the same odds like our Solar System to even allow any live are as said. Almost not worth to mention.

And now since we are the Earth with a civilisation already in this galaxy ... its extremly unlikely that we will find another civilication in our galaxy. Though now as there are countless Galaxies out there the possibility is still out there. As always.


TorontRayne said:
It still amazes me that we have a robot on Mars. It really is true that Science-Fiction becomes reality more and more every day.
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The Robot must feel pretty lonley though. Maybe he is a ancestor to Wall-E or something. Someone should send a EVA unit up there ...
 
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