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EdwardHeisler

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New Mars Rover Science Results. Live on NASA June 7th 2:00 PM EDT

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SpaceNut

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Re: New Mars Rover Science Results. Live on NASA June 7th 2:00 PM EDT

We have known about this for quite some time now NASA: Mars Has Ancient Organic Material, Mysterious Methane

With this being seen from over head NASA: Patches of Snow on the Red Planet

seems the public really does not care about space as indicated in this articles poll.

Majority of Americans Believe It Is Essential That the U.S. Remain a Global Leader in Space

But there are lots of Buts....

louis

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Re: New Mars Rover Science Results. Live on NASA June 7th 2:00 PM EDT

Yes, the difference with this presentation was I think the sheer quantity of organics they had found further down in the regolith plus the confirmed regular seasonality of methane measurements.  This is the second time NASA has hyped something up. They obviously never read the story of the boy crying wolf (= "alien" in this case)!

It's odd to me though that NASA is happy to discuss organics in soil but not happy to comment on things in photos that look very like bones or fossils.

It was also a rather poignant moment in the presentation when the presenter noted that Viking had found evidence for organics back in the early 70s, nearly 50 years ago now...if this is progress (going from "not impossible" to "quite possible" over 5 decades) then it is painfully slow and very expensive progress (given probably $30 billion in today's prices has been spent on Mars robot missions by NASA over this period).

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SpaceNut

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Re: New Mars Rover Science Results. Live on NASA June 7th 2:00 PM EDT

Life on mars, is the slow yes and then no, followed by maybe and then no, followed by ya we were wrong by maybe not only to finally say yes to earth not being the only life birth cradle. How else would you not go against religion...but by breaking it to the masses slowly that God had another garden of eden... and maybe more as we venture farther into space and distant suns.