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Logic seems to point that possibly (a very very very very very very very long time ago) there may have been life on Mars!
We have found evidence that Liquid water used to flow on Mars. Now, if Liquid water was possible on a planet, than an atmosphere is also required. Mars has a very very very thing atmosphere (worn away by solar winds)
So, if Liquid water existed (which we believe it did) Mars must have had a magnetic field (just as the Earth does) to protect the atmosphere from Solar radiation.
Consider this.
The Earth has an Iron core, surrounded by a liquid iron outer core. This liquid iron essentially spins around the solid inner core causing a convection current, and then a magnetic field. This magnetic field surrounds earth and protects our atmosphere (for the most part) from Solar Radiation.
Mars also has an iron core, but has no liquid core (any more). It's thought that as Mars is smaller than Earth, the liquid iron which span around the iron core of Mars simply cooled quicker, ceasing the convection current, and allowing the atmosphere to be destroyed by Solar wind, and therefore ending all life or the possibility of life on Mars.
But what about when the liquid iron still caused a convection current on Mars? Is it not possible that Mars may have sustained complex life just like Earth has, and that the evidence lies somewhere in a dry, arid wasteland?
It's all observation, but it's entirely possible.
What do you think?
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It's possible I'm not totally familiar with all of the science butI know that there are so many things out there which we haven't discovered yet...why shouldn't this be one of them?
There certainly is life somewhere out there, if not in our solar system, but it's almost certaim there has been so much life before us and will be so much life after us.
It's possible, but I find myself doubting it still.
Just because it has that, it doesn't necessarily mean it has/had all the conditions to sustain life.
It depends on if those conditions existed or not.
I mean, we've already found evidence that life exists out in space, but it was only bacteria, there wasn't any proof of intelligent life forms.
But given that there was bacteria, it's possible life exists or existed on another planet at some point. If the bacteria survived that is... then again, I believe they found it in an asteroid or something.
But now if the atmosphere was very thin then I doubt it. There are certain conditions needed for life to form. If Mars couldn't meet those conditions, even with water and an atmosphere then life couldn't form. What I mean is, even if you try to rationalize it by "it's aliens so human logic doesn't apply" or "it's different because it's not the earth" it doesn't change the fact that there are conditions for life and life wont form there because it can't - because the conditions have not been met. Even if you believe it would mutate, you have to consider the odds first.
Take evolution, the odds of a single-celled organism mutating to begin with are astronomical. To put it simply, you'd have to get a jackpot an unimaginable amount of times all in a row - like getting a jackpot on a billion different machines without any second chances on any of them. It's either a jackpot or bust. Of course it would be more than a billion. It's simply improbable, so much so that it might as well be impossible.
So if we us ourselves as an example and we did evolve from a single-celled organism. That doesn't mean it would happen anywhere else.
If we did evolve, then we got luck and that organism figured out how to thrive off oxygen (oxygen used to be poisonous to organisms, if you didn't know).
Long story short, even if you consider it from an evolutionary stand point the odds are simply too improbable for complex life to form on Mars. Now, what is possible is that it may have started mutating so it could live on Mars but failed to do so if that thin atmosphere was blown away.
Of course, I don't really care. The only way we'll ever know for sure is if we go there and look. Either way, i don't really think it matters. Even if you look at it through evolution, we got extremely lucky. Not only because of the probability of it all but also the Earth itself. It's placed just right, just so, tilted on just the right axis, that it allowed us to thrive. That's another reason I don't think there was an complex life on Mars. The conditions were perfect for forming life on Earth... on Mars, not so much.
But again, it doesn't matter. This is just my two cents. For all I know, there really could have been life on Mars, I'm just saying it's improbable. But I suppose that would depend on which idea you choose to follow.
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Actually Ray, the chances of exactly the same thing which happened on Earth happening anywhere else are exactly the same.
You compare it to hitting a jackpot a billion times in a row. Seems unlikely, yes, but if you have an Infinite amount of attempts, then it will happen an infinite amount of times.
Plus, you speak of these conditions which Mars does not meet now, but it's very likely that it once did, given the evidence and educated observations.
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yeah , i think im from Mars ... to be honest lots of people are from mars... you see the new fashion with those 'Yo Motherf@...r!' dudes with the Rap-Hats?... Those hats hide their alien antennas \_/ ... i simply have too much Hair to hide em , you see i have small Antennas
not to mention that Water there Tastes good ...
No , simply ... and we wont find out unless we can live for more than 2.000 years
sometimes we put up walls , not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to knock them down.
I'm pretty sure we wont need to wait another 2000 years, I'm pretty sure we won't need to wait 200 years. With the way technology is advancing today, it's very possible to reach Mars and find out for ourselves rather than from Robots. I was watching the Discovery Channel a few weeks ago and this multibillionaire is coming close to achieving prolonged life through research and dietician/nutritionists. Looking at his family history, he should've died around 5 years ago, but they're saying if he succeeds he'll be able to live longer past the age of 120. Who would've thought this could've been possible 20 years ago? Anyways, I believe in life on other planets and solar systems, as well as alternate universes.
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Life on Mars
I'm not totally familiar with all of the science butI know that there are so many things out there which we haven't discovered yet...why shouldn't this be one of them?
