On Fri, 9 Sep 2005 00:14:39 -0400, "jonathan"
wrote:

Water-world? Sounds like it's pretty much all water.
Looks like any stable solar system, even mini ones
like Jupiter and Saturn, will have habitable zones.

Well that is more due to a tidal gravity effect and possibly the
radiation. What is causing Enceladus's South pole to heat up is
currently unknown. Seems like a case of some kind of external energy
input to me.

And if it turns out the first place we look for life
elsewhere, Mars, has bacteria everywhere then
the notion that the universe if full of life is
pretty much a done-deal.

That is a false theory. It has already been proved well enough that
Earth and Mars can frequently cross-contaminate each other. So only if
this discovered Mars life is fully alien can you conclude that there
could be life everywhere.

And Mars is full of life. The primary products of the simplest
forms of bacteria are iron deposits. And Mars is ...red.

Another false idea. Lots of iron compounds on Mars. Add some water and
it soon turns to rust. There is your iron oxide, or "rust dust" as I
like to call it.

The biggest indication of life on Mars so far is in the localized
methane out gassing. Methane is often a biological waste product, but
it can also occur naturally.

We can see evidence of life on Mars from a hundred
millions miles away, on a hazy evening without even
using glasses. The evidence of life is so obvious, you'd
have to be blind not to see it.

There is no evidence of life. A thousand scientists cannot be wrong on
that conclusion.

This aint rocket science, it really is that simple.

To the uninformed.

Cardman.