Re: Life likely on Mars

"Life likely on Mars" as of how many hundred millions if not a billion
years ago?

In just another billion years there will likely become no sign of
intelligent life on Earth, mostly because of the dumbfounded genetic
DNA code of humanity will not have evolved past the cultivated dumb
and dumber stage of being so easily faith-based snookered past the
point of no return.

A second billion years from now there will be hardly if any signs of
past life (intelligent or otherwise) as having existed/coexisted on
Earth.

Is this latest rant of yours telling the rest of us a little something
special as to the actual truth of William Mook, as to the cloak and
dagger aspects of your phony existence that has been a silly game of
cat and mouse all along?
.. - Brad Guth


Willie.Moo...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
My thoughts tonight

http://phoenix.lpl.arizona.edu/

Before this week we were uncertain about life in the universe. After
this week, we will know of a certainty, that life exists outside
Earth. That's my bet.

As a consequence, this will be the biggest week in the history of
humanity - though we won't know that generally until much much later.

The certainty of other life will subtly shift so many aspects of our
culture and the way we think about the universe. It will also mark a
shift in our conciousness from Earth centered to Cosmic centered
thinking.

When Captain Cook took the Endeavour and completed the first
circumnavigation of the the world in 1771 the idea that the world was
limitless ended. With that the idea that there was a frontier
accessible beyond the horizon also ended. We began organizing our
international affairs around the disposition of limited resources.
The modern military age had begun.

This week's discovery is the beginning of the end of that age. This
was predicted at the beginning of the space age, but has been slow to
develop following the cancellation of Project Apollo and the general
abandonment of manned solar system exploration.

Beyond the large sea change in human conciousness there will be
continuing debates following this weeks discovery. The big debate
will be where did life come from? Did it evolve independently on
Earth and Mars? Did it arrive with the water from the Kuiper belt
objects? We won't know the answer to that question without being
able to look at the DNA of living systems - and that will take a human
presence on Mars, or rather a human level presence on Mars (AI driven
bio-lab)

The Earth's oceans formed about 3.8 billion years ago. Where did the
water come from? Deep space probes have photographed nearly all
moons and planets with solid surfaces. One thing we know for
certain, analyzing every surface from Mercury, to the Moon, to Mars,
to the Moons of the outer planets - that about 3.8 bilion years ago
there was a massive solar system wide cratering event. Where did the
debris come from? The Kuiper belt! We have already mapped in just
a few short years over 120,000 objects. These objects are made of
exotic ices. Nitrogen, and water. The very things that are
abundand on the surface of the Earth. Nitrogen and water are
present on Mars. Nitrogen and water are present on Earth. Nitrogen
and water are present on Venus. Mercury is too hot and small to
retain much nitrogen and water - as is the moon - but likely when
landers set down on some of the oldest craters - they'll find - as on
the moon - nitrogen rich compound and hydrides dating back 3.8 billion
years ago.

Life also formed on Earth 3.8 bilion years ago - just after water
arrived the theory goes. Some think the old idea of panspermia is
still got some life in it so to speak! Why couldn't the life have
arrived WITH the water? The discovery of life on Mars will reopen
this old debate.

We won't know the answer until we send a bio lab to the Kuiper belt
with the ability to drill deeply into the core of these bodies.

Then the question will be, is ALL life across the cosmos related?

We already know that amino acids the building blocks of life form
freely in interstellar clouds

http://www.springerlink.com/content/m036064v04358h46/

and that the Kuiper Belt is debris left over from the Sun's formation
from an interstellar cloud.

Anyway,

Happy Memorial Day

William
.

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