Mars had vast oceans

Magnum Force · 06-14-2007

In regards to the last thread I made about the evidence of water being found on Mars (which was too old to start back up), NASA and other scientists have now come to the conclusion that there were vast oceans covering one-third of the planet, but have been gone for at least 2 billion years.

Mystery Solved: Mars Had Large Oceans - Yahoo! News

It seems as if Mars is a deteriorated version of Earth.

Cylon · 06-14-2007

That's pretty interesting, seeing how that would make 3 celestial objects in our solar system to have water on them. Earth obviously being one of them, Mars, probably several billion years ago, and Europa, one of Jupiter's moons, who currently has vast oceans underneath the thick ice covering the entire planet (I believe NASA has sent out a probe that is set out to drill through the ice covering the surface until it hits the water underneath, which would then release a submairne looking structuce that will be exploring the oceans while taking pictures.)

If anything, this increases the odds that life exisited on Mars, although it no longer exisits now. However, we need to solve the problem of deep space travel if we ever plan on finding other living life forms in my opinions.

Negative Creep · 06-14-2007

Man, I was really hoping that the scientists would have also found proof that tri-boobed women used to live on Mars. If it's in a Schwarzenegger movie, it's got to be true... right?

Magnum Force · 06-14-2007

Well the thing about finding other life is that if NASA does in fact find it, then the problem will be that everything religion spoke of will go down the drain. My tutor works for NASA (classified job) and she was telling me that even releasing the information about water on Mars is a problem. Because that leads to the possibility that religion is not true (which for some reason, I agree, but only to a certain extent). The information that NASA releases regarding this is never official because of the possible riots/outrages made by religious activists. They just state what they have discovered and continue their work. So technically it isn't "official" that it's even true of what they found.

But in spite of the recent environmental issues, I think that NASA has been kicking it into high gear in search of closer habitable planets (unlike that one they found several light years away). All I can say is that I would LOVE to play golf on the moon or try to eat orange juice floating around in space catching the globs of liquid.

dansdarkside · 06-14-2007

Wow, this is starting to go the same way the last thread did.

Boba already talked about the tri-boobed women, and I already talked about the religion thing.

BoyEngland · 06-14-2007

I think it would be pretty sweet if we did find life on another planet.

I know most of us think of those lifeforms (if they existed) to be green with weird heads or whatever, but I am starting to think otherwise.

I have always laughed in the face of anyone who believes in aliens or other lifeforms on other planets, but it really is starting to look more and more of a true fact every time we receive information from up "there".

I'm not saying I'm going to go out, buy a telescope, build a bunker and 10,000 packets of freeze dried meals just in case the war of the worlds breaks out (movie style), but I think finding another life form will eventually make people realise how dumb 95% of our human population really is when we see their way of living.

All of this is theoretical and probably won't happen, but it would be sweet.

Magnum Force · 06-15-2007

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Originally Posted by dansdarkside

Wow, this is starting to go the same way the last thread did.

Boba already talked about the tri-boobed women, and I already talked about the religion thing.

It won't go that way if you don't be an idiot and point it out with a non-contributing post and if you actually stay on the topic.

Sidewinder · 06-15-2007

There are also planets and moons in the solar system that have vast underground rivers of liquid methane. Since methane is CH4 and carbon and hydrogen are some of the basic building blocks of life, there is a slight possibility that there is (or was) life other than on earth in this solar system. And, as proven a few months ago, there are other planets in the universe that could sustain human life.

On a side note, I think that people are too trained to the idea that other life needs what life here needs to survive. We don't know all about other planets and how things are there. Life in other places could require completely different things. Also, with the crazy gravitational pulls, different compounds could be possible other places. We, as humans, always assume that things have to be the same other places as they are here.

I guess astronomy has always interested me. I should get into astrophysics or something.

dansdarkside · 06-15-2007

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Originally Posted by Magnum Force

It won't go that way if you don't be an idiot and point it out with a non-contributing post and if you actually stay on the topic.

Well, maybe if you guys didn't repeat what me and Boba said less then 2 weeks ago, I would not have to bring it up.

I am done with my little rant, You guys go ahead and stay on topic now. The other thread is on page 2, just encase you want to steal what anyone else said.

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Originally Posted by Sidewinder

There are also planets and moons in the solar system that have vast underground rivers of liquid methane. Since methane is CH4 and carbon and hydrogen are some of the basic building blocks of life, there is a slight possibility that there is (or was) life other than on earth in this solar system. And, as proven a few months ago, there are other planets in the universe that could sustain human life.

On a side note, I think that people are too trained to the idea that other life needs what life here needs to survive. We don't know all about other planets and how things are there. Life in other places could require completely different things. Also, with the crazy gravitational pulls, different compounds could be possible other places. We, as humans, always assume that things have to be the same other places as they are here.

I guess astronomy has always interested me. I should get into astrophysics or something.

You make a very intriguing point. For all we know other lifeforms may not need water to live.

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Originally Posted by Cylon

That's pretty interesting, seeing how that would make 3 celestial objects in our solar system to have water on them. Earth obviously being one of them, Mars, probably several billion years ago, and Europa, one of Jupiter's moons, who currently has vast oceans underneath the thick ice covering the entire planet (I believe NASA has sent out a probe that is set out to drill through the ice covering the surface until it hits the water underneath, which would then release a submairne looking structuce that will be exploring the oceans while taking pictures.)

I wonder if they will get any pictures of anything in my lifetime. That would be pretty cool to see a fish from Europa.

pyro120 · 06-15-2007

Who cares if there is life on another planet. So what. Maybe they are doing the same thing to find out if we are here. It's not like any of us are going to go there anytime soon.