On Tue, 3 Jun 2025 14:40:57 -0400
JTEM <
jtem01@gmail.com> wrote:
Consider the implications here:
https://www.ecoportal.net/en/unknown-forms-life-nasa-discovery-mars/8500/
<Quote>
Scientists from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, along with
researchers from India and Saudi Arabia, discovered 26
extremophiles – microorganisms with strong resistance to
inhospitable environments – in the clean room used to
prepare the Phoenix Mars Lander 18 years after it was
launched. The discovery indicates some of it probably
went to the Red Planet.
</Quote>
The problem is that it's not *Just* the Phoenix Mars
Lander, it's everything. It's everything that has touched
the surface of Mars and even a few failed missions that
weren't even supposed to land, but may have possibly
crashed... humans have been firing off things towards
Mars for 60 years! Not everything was a success!
When you say "We don't know what happened" then "crashed
into Mars" is a possibility.
And it's not just NASA. It's the Russians, it's the E.U.
and China and India... NASA is likely the most careful
amongst all these programs!
So if there's any environment on Mars that can sustain
life, it's likely been colonized already!
Thanks, I'm now glad I never killfile'd you for all the other stuff.
"It's life, Jim just as we knew it!" But it's a shame we'll probably not
now know if 'Life on Mars' (#now playing) ever evolved independently.
--
Bah, and indeed Humbug.
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