Scientists Suggest Nasa Probes Killed life on mars

[4yearpro?]

http://articles.news.aol.com/news/_a/scientist-suggests-nasa-probes-killed/20070107132009990004?ncid=NWS00010000000001

thisc is kinda upsetting if they really did kill life on mars

[innerdark]

*Insert David Bowie Joke*
Unfortunately, these things, if they did happen, probably couldn't be helped, simply because we have no knowledge of the life that may be there

mind you, i'm scared of P****d off martians now

[4yearpro?]

ye thats true and its too late now.

[Surtr]

Haha yeah, it's to late now, so whatever eh?

If there were Alien Microbes..at least we didn't give 'em a chance to evolve, make ray guns, and kill us all. :thumb:

[4yearpro?]

it would be cool if they found something something and studied it but then it could be like that movie Mars Attack!

[badtaste]

That's something I've always thought about... is it possible that interference on Nasa's part may harm the development of life on other planets? Shouldn't we just let them any form of life/development be? Hell, you Americans have left all your junk on the moon, what other littering will you do to our (our? That doesn't sound right...) solar system?

[Smokey D]

First of all, the amount of stuff left on the moon or anywhere else space probes have visited is minimal considering the size of those places. Secondly, the moon particularly is not likely to ever support life naturally, so it doesn't really effect anything that NASA left some of its space junk there.

[Amit]

That's something I've always thought about... is it possible that interference on Nasa's part may harm the development of life on other planets? Shouldn't we just let them any form of life/development be? Hell, you Americans have left all your junk on the moon, what other littering will you do to our (our? That doesn't sound right...) solar system?

ah yes "you americans"

"you americans" this

"you americans" that

god damn those americans

it's not like the russians visited the moon either

[Mr. Ron]

Like we actually went to the moon. :rolleyes:

[_Sock]

How did one sample kill all life, I think you misunderstood the article.

[palepalepeach]

If only NASA would have listened to Wolf Vishniac.

[Danger Bird]

Hahahaha that's humans for you.

[griftadan]

*Insert David Bowie Joke*
Unfortunately, these things, if they did happen, probably couldn't be helped, simply because we have no knowledge of the life that may be there

mind you, i'm scared of P****d off martians now

apparently they die easily

[Thasis]

Just because we killed SOME doesn't mean we killed ALL. Just cause Mars isn't a BIG planet doesn't mean it's small either.

[I Am a Hat]

yes it certainly isn't a carl weathers par example

[Give me Beer]

How did one sample kill all life, I think you misunderstood the article.

This.

The probe didn't kill all life, it's just some crazy theory that if life on Mars has these specific characteristics then the probe would've killed that life on the sample he was analyzing because they used the wrong methods.

[CarnageFairy]

The martians are filled with hydrogen peroxide?


We can harvest them to sterilize wounds.


I'm going to be rich!

[Surtr]

The martians are filled with hydrogen peroxide?


We can harvest them to sterilize wounds.


I'm going to be rich!

You would have been, but they've all been killed, remember?

[PerpetualBurn]

I somehow never fail to underestimate the number of people that don't read the article in the first thread but still manage a sufficient knee-jerk reaction.

[Surtr]

I read it, and I get it.

There's a chance that through some of the tests the first probe did, it could have killed the microbes. The microbes could have existed in just that one small area where the tests were done, they don't have to be spread all over the planet.

[_Sock]

The microbes could have existed in just that one small area where the tests were done, they don't have to be spread all over the planet.no...

[Auberge le Mouton Noir]

Oh come now, all it's saying is that he test they'd've used would've destroyed the hydro-peroxide based life in the sample. We do worse to cattle.

[Surtr]

no...

Lmao, actually, yes.

[PerpetualBurn]

Well with stupid infinitessimally low odds, maybe.

But then why would you post something so inane?

[Auberge le Mouton Noir]

I read it, and I get it.

There's a chance that through some of the tests the first probe did, it could have killed the microbes. The microbes could have existed in just that one small area where the tests were done, they don't have to be spread all over the planet.

:lol:


If that's so then it's ok because they were about to die out anyway since there were only enough alive to fill ONE SAMPLE