Life On Mars Found In 1976, NASA Covered Up The Evidence

On Thu, 24 Jul 2003 17:48:20 +0200, "Ultimate Buu"
wrote:

Dr. Levin designed his experiments poorly because it was later revealed that
the results could have been produced by chemical reactions within the soil
as well as by bacteria. The Beagle has much better experiments on-board and
will produce much more credible evidence for or against the case for Life on
Mars.

....Which brings up a similar question: whatever happened to the
reports that the spectroscopic signs for chlorophyll were found in
Viking images of certain rocks? IIRC, last year this became a hot
topic that disappeared quicker than Cold Fusion.


OM

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On Sat, 26 Jul 2003 13:20:30 +0100, Robert Carnegie
wrote:

If there's no
practical way to send a living human body to another star system,
how about sucking out all the water from the body first - that's,
what, 70%, 90%, of the weight - and adding water (sourced
locally) back in after the journey, before resuscitating the "victim"?

You can go first... :-]

How about copying a human mind onto a tiny lightweight silicon
chip, a really good one that lasts forever, and sending /that/, built
in to a robot spaceship?

What a human mind on a space ship?

Look at Cassini when is taking years to just get to Saturn and you are
wanting to travel to another star system? Tens or even hundreds of
years that could take.

All that time counting the stars, thinking what you would do if you
was not a space ship, wishing that you had not left your favourite
*thing* a home, wishing you could have a chat with someone, and most
of all wishing that something would fly past!

The reason that they have sleep mode on their space probes is that the
trip is f***ing boring!

Cardman.

"Paul F. Dietz" wrote ...
Tica wrote:

Humans love exploration. If all people were subject to the same fears and
doubts that you express, then we would still be living in caves and savaging
at the edges of migratory herds.

They do? Most humans are not explorers in the sense you are using.

Active explorers are a relatively small but essential part of humanity and
probably have been for a very long time*. It's only in the last couple of hundred
years or so when theres started to be a serious shortage of places to explore.

Given a base population of 1 (one) Earth then finding (mumble)-hundred for
a generation ship would be no problem at all. In fact you'd probably get
enough volunteers just from the lurkers in this newsgroup.

There would, of course, be plenty of _other_ problems to keep things 'interesting'.

* If I was going to pull the pseudo-logic evolutionary crap here I'd say something
like "The lure of the exotic is a well established success factor in evolutionary
terms - from the advantages associated with 'out-breeding'. This makes
travel to distant places one of the tactics available to man." but that's not my
area of expertise and idiots can (and have) used evolution to 'prove' almost
anything they want it to 'prove'.